At Fertility Physicians of Northern California it is our mission to help people become parents and we take great pride in our experience providing advanced reproductive health care services to people from all over the world. Our total focus is on helping you realize your dream of having a healthy child. We have helped thousands of people become parents and would be honored to help you make your dream of having a healthy baby come true. Please count on us to help you through every step of the process and know that our goal is to make your fertility treatment as comfortable, safe, and successful as possible.

Founded in 1984, Fertility Physicians of Northern California (FPNC) offers the full range of medical solutions patients need to start a family, from simple drug therapy to advanced procedures such as in vitro fertilization and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. Our physicians are all specialists in reproductive endocrinology, infertility and obstetrics and gynecology, providing the most advanced training and education in the treatment of infertility, endometriosis, miscarriage and other reproductive disorders. Our clinical, nursing and laboratory staff is also composed of highly trained experts.

FPNC understands how complex the process of egg donation can seem. In order to help you, we have a dedicated team of medical professionals to assist you through the donor selection process as well as the legal and medical requirements. We have been facilitating egg donation for our patients since 1990, working extensively with anonymous and known donors. We also have an in-house registry of egg donors who are local to San Jose and surrounding cities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Federal Laws and Medical guidelines are carefully followed at FPNC to ensure privacy and well-being for everyone involved.

Traveling to California for an Egg Donation IVF Cycle

Recipients who do not live in the San Francisco Bay Area will be required to travel to Fertility Physicians of Northern California (FPNC) at two different times in order to complete an IVF cycle with eggs donated by an egg donor:

1. Initial consultation and completion of testing before the cycle is started (1 - 2 days)
   
2. Lining check and embryo transfer, which will require a prolonged visit (7 -10 days)

There are some evaluations that must be performed by FPNC at your first appointment:

1. Consultation with an FPNC Physician (Female and Male Partner)
   
2. Physical Examination (Female Partner)
   
3. Uterine Sounding/Cath Check (Female Partner)
   
4. Injection Training (Female Partner)
   
5. Semen Analysis (Male Partner)
   
6. Cycle Review Consultation (Female and Male Partner)
   
7. Psychological Consultation (Female and Male Partner)

Please contact a member of our Egg Donor Program Team to schedule your initial consultation and discuss the logistics of your fertility treatment at FPNC. They will ensure that all necessary evaluations are scheduled consecutively on the same day, to minimize the time you are required to stay in San Jose, CA. The toll-free number is 1 - (800) 597 - 2234.

In the best interest of patient convenience, we will allow recipient patients (female and/or male partner), who do not live near our offices, to have some preliminary testing performed by their own local physician in their home city, state or country, prior to their initial consultation at FPNC. A list of these evaluations may be provided to you or to your physician upon request. It is important that FPNC receives your medical records and any results of testing performed by your local physician one week prior to your initial consultation. At the initial appointment, FPNC will perform or repeat any tests or evaluations, of which results are not available for review at that time. All test results must be current within one year of the embryo transfer. If any test results expire prior to embryo transfer, they will need to be repeated by FPNC.

FPNC works with pharmacies which will ship your cycle medications directly to you, even if you live outside of the country. Alternatively, you may wish to have your local physician transcribe the prescriptions written by FPNC so that you may purchase your medications through your preferred pharmacist. You will be given prescriptions for cycle medications at your initial visit.

If it is anticipated that the male recipient partner may be unable to make a second prolonged trip to FPNC for IVF and Embryo Transfer, a semen sample may be frozen at FPNC during the initial visit. However, the results of the semen evaluations must be acceptable for IVF in order for the frozen specimen to be used, so this option can not be guaranteed until the results become available and are determined favorable after the initial visit. FPNC can not accept frozen semen samples from outside of the Country.