Egg Donation and Surrogacy

See the article, “Egg donors rise as U.S economy falls”.
“Remember that egg donation helps a lot of people; it is safe if done by a professional, medically-ethical clinic.  It helps the donor, and it helps the recipients have a child.”
- Kathy Benardo, Northeast Assisted Fertility Group

Of course, only you can make a decision about your child. But in my experience, openness and honesty is rewarded with respect. On the other hand, secrecy and deception fosters anger and resentment.

Your child will love you no less with the knowledge about his or her conception. It does [...] Continue Reading…

CNN has run an article, “Six embryos?! How to avoid a fertility fiasco” which spotlights the birth of octuplets to Nadya Suleman last month, and the picture this has painted of fertility clinics.

This article demonstrates how important the ASRM’s guidelines are in keeping fertility treatment safe as well as [...] Continue Reading…

It was a shock to learn that “Octo Mom” got pregnant with all those babies through IVF (in vitro fertilization) rather than just IUI (intrauterine insemination): what doctor would transfer all those embryos? Unfortunately, there are a few unethical doctors out there who make the industry look like a [...] Continue Reading…

Saturday’s feature of Northeast Assisted Fertility Group’s egg donation program on CBS’ The Early Show (”As Economy Falls, Egg Donations Rise”) was not unlike other coverage we’ve seen about the “surge” in egg donation… the faltering economy compels more and more young women to consider becoming egg donors – [...] Continue Reading…

Katherine Benardo, director of the egg donation program at Northeast Assisted Fertility Group, will be among the panelists on CBS’ Early Show this Saturday morning.  There will also be an egg donor candidate and a doctor (Dr. Zeke Emanuel, brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel) for [...] Continue Reading…

NAFG President Sanford Benardo will be participating in a “Donor Egg Decision Making Seminar” sponsored by the Baystate Chapter of Resolve. It will take place at the Children’s Hospital in Waltham, MA on Saturday, February 7 from 9:30 AM to 5 PM.

Sanford will speak on “Finding a Donor and [...] Continue Reading…

Tonight, Cindy Hsu of CBS New York contributed yet another story about the growing popularity of egg donation, featuring Northeast Assisted Fertility Group’s egg donor program.
“If you’re motivated you can do a wonderful thing and help somebody and help yourself at the same time, but do not think that [...] Continue Reading…

This time it’s in the Boston Herald. Sanford Benardo is quoted:
“Benardo said the egg donation and surrogacy agency has seen applications from potential egg donors double — the [egg donation] agency pays female donors a flat rate of $10,000 after a woman’s eggs are retrieved.”
The article acknowledges that making [...] Continue Reading…

Now that our database has grown to include about 80 egg donor candidates, we have made it much easier to navigate and search information.

Recipients can always view all the egg donors at once (organized with the most recent additions on top), but now they can also search by criteria: [...] Continue Reading…