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The BHED Difference

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

So many BHED (Beverly Hills Egg Donation) donors are accomplished, well-educated young women, that we thought it might be valuable to give you some highlights now and again. Our list of dedicated egg donors includes women who speak three and four languages, college graduates with 4.0 GPAs, and women working on their Master’s Degrees and even PhDs.

Among our linguists, we can count Alexa #3127 who speaks Czech, Ticiana #2995 who is a native Portuguese speaker, Thomasina #4798 who learned Italian in college and is now fluent, and Natalia #870 who speaks both Russian and Chuvash. Asha #4746 speaks four languages – English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu.

Our college graduates boast degrees in a wide variety of disciplines. For example, Lynn #4857 has a degree in Architecture, while Ashley #4593 graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. in Theology. Jeni #3093 completed her B.S. in Economics at UCLA, Lisa #3986 has a degree in Zoology, and Lynnea #4083 is pursuing her degree in Biopsychology.

We have quite a few donors who have completed or are enrolled in Master’s programs, including Terri #4759, Jennifer #4389, Hannon #4506, and Michelle #4577.

In blogs to come, we’ll highlight state-and-nationally recognized athletes, dedicated volunteers (including several donors who have started their own non-profits), state beauty pageant winners, professional models and much more! We continue to be impressed with the outstanding and altruistic young women that are part of our donor program.

-Alexa Abrams, BHED Director of Donor Recruitment

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The Road to Lisa’s Retrieval – Finding Beverly Hills Egg Donation

Monday, February 16th, 2009

[Editor's Note]:  This is the first in a series of postings from our egg donor, Lisa.  She’s a first-time donor nearing the end of her cycle and has offered to give us daily updates following her journey through her retrieval, which is anticipated to be early next week.

lisa21Hi everyone!  My name is Lisa and I am an egg donor for BHED (Beverly Hills Egg Donation), currently going through my first cycle.  I got involved with BHED in August 2008 when I put in an application to be an egg donor and was quickly (and happily) accepted into the program.  My interest in becoming an egg donor was brought on by my amazing parents.

After seeing a segment on egg donation on the local news, they told me it was something I should look into.  I started doing my research online right away and found Beverly Hills Egg Donation.  It was the second website I visited, and their site felt very welcoming.  I proceeded to fill out an egg donor application, which was one of the longest and most detailed I’ve ever filled out!  Then again, it’s a very important job.  Soon after filling out the application, I received an email saying that I was now ready for the next step of meeting with a BHED representative, and that I was being considered to be an active egg donor!  I just remember being so excited and jumping up and down with my parents after getting the email!

Next, a meeting was set up with BHED’s Managing Partner, Lisa Greer.  I took my parents with me for suppport.  Because it was a weekend, we met for coffee in LA at the Starbucks on Wilshire Blvd.  Lisa welcomed me and my parents right away and went over all the details that go into becoming a donor.  It was a lot of information, but she made it easy to understand and sent us home with some documents to look over and sign.  After that meeting I was officially a registed BHED donor!

I received an email from Lisa congratulating me on being accepted as a donor.  The email was so welcoming, I just knew I was in the right place.

-Lisa, Donor

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I Just Chose an Egg Donor – What Can I DO Now?

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

When you finally make your decision and choose an egg donor it is totally natural to want to get started right away.  Many recipients are anxious to find out what they can do to move the cycle along.  Unfortunately, when a match is made, often it is the donor who has the most to do.  All donors will meet with your doctor, have bloodwork done, and new donors will have their psychological and genetic counselor interviews.

For intended parents–there is mostly just waiting.  One thing that intended parents can do right away is contact their attorney and let them know that they are in cycle with a new egg donor, or research and retain an attorney if they don’t have one.  Choosing an attorney to draft your agreement is very important.  You want to work with someone who specializes in reproductive law.  Your attorney will be drafting the contract between you and your donor and for your protection you want that to be iron clad.  It is well worth your money to work with an attorney who does all of their work in reproductive law.

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Speaking of cost–how much will it cost?  The average price for a contract is between $750.00 and $1000.00.  Some attorneys will offer re-drafting options as well.  Once retained, your attorney will write the contact and review it with you.  this can all be done as they cycle is beginning.  After your donor’s first visit to the doctor the contract (with your approval) will be sent to your donor’s attorney who will review it with your donor, clarify any questions that she has, and request any changes on her behalf.

Once everyone is happy, the contract is signed and you’re ready to go.  Ideally all of the timing will work out perfectly and the contract will be done shortly before your donor starts medication.  BHED (Beverly Hills Egg Donation) has a great list of reproductive lawyers available upon request.

-Ellie Klein, BHED Cycle Coordiator

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