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Frozen Egg Bank Launches New Donor Web Site that Helps Prospective Parents Start a Family
Date:8/18/2008

ORANGE COUNTY, Calif., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Frozen Egg Bank, one of only three repositories of frozen human eggs from donors, announced the launch of their new Web site, http://www.eggfreezing.com. The Web site provides a registry of young, healthy donors whose frozen eggs can help start families for women unable to conceive with their own eggs.

Baby photos of donors, as well as their ethnicity, eye color, hair color, weight and height, are provided on http://www.eggfreezing.com. Prospective parents can learn more about the egg donors and view their recent photos by requesting a username and password from the Frozen Egg Bank.

"This Web site is a comprehensive resource for women who need donor eggs and are looking for a realistic new method to conceive a child of their own," said David Diaz, M.D., FACOG, a fertility expert who founded Frozen Egg Bank. "Not only does Egg Bank offer a listing of healthy egg donors for intended mothers but it also enables young women to freeze their own healthy eggs in order to start a family in the future."

Although potential parents have the option of using fresh donor eggs, it is more costly and time consuming compared with using frozen eggs. By purchasing frozen eggs, the cost is less and the intended mother's menstrual cycle does not need to be synchronized with the donor's cycle. Costly travel expenses and compliance problems are also eliminated. It is also possible to reserve additional eggs from the same donor in order to have a second child in later years.

While embryo freezing has existed since the 1980s, egg freezing technology has more recently succeeded in freezing eggs and storing them indefinitely in liquid nitrogen. In 2005, Frozen Egg Bank celebrated its first birth from a frozen egg that was stored for four years. Since then, an additional 27 babies have been born, and anot
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