Egg donation in Mumbai, Maharashtra

In egg donation, the eggs for an IVF cycle come from a donor rather than from the woman who will carry the pregnancy. The donor's ovaries are stimulated and her eggs collected; they are fertilised in the laboratory, by IVF or ICSI, and an embryo is placed in the recipient's womb once its lining has been prepared with hormones. It is considered when a woman produces no eggs, when her own eggs are very unlikely to result in a pregnancy, or to avoid passing on a serious inherited condition.

The rules come from India's ART Act, and the egg donation explainer on this directory quotes them in full. In short, donated eggs reach a clinic only through a bank registered under the Act; a donor must fall within the Act's age limits and may donate once in her lifetime; and a bank may not give one donor's eggs to more than one couple. Ask a clinic which bank supplies it, how it checks those conditions, and whether it offers counselling, because choosing to use donated eggs deserves time.

In Mumbai, 5 listings on this directory name egg donation on their own website. Of those, 4 are registered at Level 2 on the national ART registry and the other carries no level in the registry extract; since the treatment is IVF, ask that clinic where it would be carried out. This directory has no doctor recorded against these listings yet. Thane and Navi Mumbai are separate cities on the registry and have pages of their own here.

Ask what the quoted price covers, from the bank's charges and the donor's treatment to the recipient's cycle and any frozen embryos. Under the ART Act the eggs must come from a registered bank, and 1 of these clinics holds a bank registration itself, so ask the others which bank they use and how it meets the Act's conditions.