Embryo Donation Centre in India

What is Embryo Donation?

The embryo donation process is otherwise similar to oocyte/egg donation. We ask recipient couples to contact us and describe what they are looking for in an embryo, which allows us to match available embryos with recipient couples. Once a match is made, the cycle usually proceeds quickly.

The fact that hundreds of thousands of embryos are currently cryopreserved (frozen) worldwide has been the subject of many articles in the press and a slew of television programs. Delhi IVF Clinic, based in India, has for years been a pioneer in the concept of embryo donation, in which infertile couples "adopt" embryos donated by other couples who have completed their families. In fact, we coined the term embryo “adoption,” not because we wanted to suggest that the process in itself is equal to the adoption of a child, but because we intended to “personalize” the selection process of embryos produced by another couple through assisted reproductive technologies.

Couples who have conceived with IVF and have completed their families often face a gut-wrenching decision on what to do with their embryos, when still having cryopreserved embryos in storage. We have for years tried to encourage such couples to donate their embryos for "adoption" by others. (See our current supply of available embryos here.) In contrast to most other IVF programs, we are also willing to accept frozen embryos from other IVF programs for this purpose.