Cost of embryo donation treatment
The cost of an embryo donation treatment cycle is an important consideration for any couple. This depends upon whether the embryos were donated by another couple, in which case the cost to the recipient’s couple would be the cost of screening the donor, monitoring the cycle and embryo transfer. This is significantly less than if the embryos were created as a result of separate sperm donation and egg donation. However, the extra cost needs to be balanced against the better matching of both the sperm and egg donors to the physical and ethnic characteristic of the recipient couple. Furthermore, embryos created from separate sperm and egg donors has a higher pregnancy and live birth rates compared to embryos donated from infertile couples.