Eggs

[Pocorose]

Can a woman give eggs if she has her ovaries were left after a hysterectomy,My husband is 57 and never had kids his first wife who recently died never wanted them.Can I donate my eggs or do I have them still . I know this might be a silly question but got to ask....

[AnnieBrooke]

If you are really 53, as your profile says, you would be bucking impossible odds, because if you could even find an IVF doctor who would do it, your eggs would no longer be likely to produce a viable pregnancy.  As for the rest of it, just for someone else who might have this question but be 30 or 35, the person above said it involves a surgical procedure.  The process of retrieval is not a surgical procedure the way a layperson thinks of surgery, but it does involve going in through the vagina and aspirating the eggs with a needle from the ovaries.  And it does involve having hormone treatment so the egg donor will produce a lot of eggs at one time.  Then (if the intended mother has had a hysterectomy) a gestational carrier ("surrogate mother") would be needed.  The only way you could give your husband a baby at this point is if an embryo was produced with donor eggs from a younger donor, and his sperm, and carried by a gestational surrogate.  The problem with this scenario (besides the fact that they wouldn't be your eggs, if that troubles you) is that some IVF clinics won't even do a gestational carrier pregnancy for an intended mother who will be over 52 when the baby is born.  So ask at the IVF clinic what their policy is, if you want to go that route.      

[Hil323]

It depends on your age and it would require medicine and a surgical procedure on your part and a surrogateto carry the baby.