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The Procedure of Oocyte Recipient Program



For couples struggling to conceive consider Oocyte Recipient Program aboard, Stork Fertility Center has iCroybank consultant team to support you on this journey. 

Upon Taiwan Artificial Reproduction Act, you need to prepare regarding documents to register IVF treatment in Taiwan, please contact our consultant team to request an appointment. Your consultant will evaluate your condition, help you with paper works before you come to Taiwan and arrange examinations during your first visit to Taiwan.
Only two times to Taiwan, you can complete the journey in Stork Fertility Center!

Required documents before first visit
   1.   Registration Form (Register online and our consultants will contact with you.)
   2.   Marriage Certificate (Original notarized marriage certification authenticated by Taipei       Economics and Cultural Office where you had your marriage registration done.)
   3.   Couple's photo ID and valid passport
   4.   Couple’s fertility medical records
   5.   Kinship form (Our government will check whether your husband and oocyte donor are relatives, please record you and your husband’s relatives English name as below)

1st relative degree
2nd relative degree
3th relative degree
4th relative
degree
Wife
Parent
Grandparent and sibling
X
X
Husband
Aunt, uncle, niece, and nephew
First cousin, grandniece and grandnephew

At least 2 visits for the oocyte donation program
We’ve designed a preliminary oocyte-recipient treatment plan as shown in below based on your situation, the most favorable one presently. However, the practical one should be followed by our doctor's order.

First Visit to Taiwan
 7-11th day of your menstral cycle, stay for 2-3 days.

I. Meeting with the Doctor.
II. Complete and notarize Oocyte Donation Program consent, notarization, IVF consent, Kinship Form and regarding documents.
III. Recommended Examinations as below.
For wife: 
  • Hormone blood testing:
TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone) &PRL (prolactin): If these two hormones exceed standard value, they will affect pregnancy rates and fetal development in gestation. You need to take medicines to control the level by the docotor's order.
  • Hysterosalpingography (HSG): Inject small amount of contrast medium into your uterus and it will flow through your fallopian tube. Then use X-ray to check whether tubes are blocked or not and the whole uterus size.
  • Hysteroscopy: Directly observe the inside of the uterus and check if there are any polyps and fibroids.
  • Auto-immune response: Blood tests. An abnormal autoimmune function may cause miscarriage.
  • 3 in 1 test includes:
      -  Cervical Discharge culture
      -  Chlamydia DNA inspection
      -  HPV inspection
For husband: 
  • Semen Analysis
For both: 
  • ABO blood typing: Confirm you and your husbands’ ABO and Rh type.
  • HIV,Syphilis
IV. Bring the implantation medications back to your country.

When an ideal donor is founded!
When the ideal donor is founded, you will receive the notification. If you agree to accept this donor, please remit the frozen oocyte package-NT$ 480,000 within one week.
By the way, the PGS cost is not included in the package fee. 
PGS is NTD$ 24,500/per embryo.
Frozen oocyte bank package (TWD 480,000): Includes health assessments; nutrition allowances; and blood samples, injections, medications, ultrasonic scans, inconvenience allowances, transportation allowances, and assessment handling fees for the donor during treatment.

Second Visit to Taiwan
18-20th day of your menstrual cycle, stay for 3-7 days

Notify us when your period comes, then start taking the implantation medications, monitor your endometrium thickness and hormone level in your country.
You will be notified when to visit us to conduct embryo transfer.
It’s better to stay 3-7 days for rest after embryo transfer.



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How to get to Stork Fertility Center? (Hsinchu and Taipei Center)

Transportation to Stork Fertility Center (Hsinchu)

Address:No.80, Chung Hsiao Rd, Hsin Chu City 300, Taiwan



By Cars：

◆Southbound lane of Zhongshan National Highway.
  Please get off at exit 95A leading to Hsinchu downtown and turn right to Gougdao 5th Road → Turn left to ZhongXiao Road.

◆Northbound lane of Zhongshan National Highway.
Please get off at exit 95A leading to Hsinchu downtown and turn right to Gougdao 5th Road → Turn left to ZhongXiao Road.

Parking Information



1. Hsinchu Mackay Hospital parking lot

    No. 690, Sec. 2, Guangfu Rd., East Dist., Hsinchu City 300
    Parking fee is NT$30/hr

2. Technique and Finance Building basement level 1
    No. 258, Sec. 2, Guangfu Rd., East Dist., Hsinchu City 300
    Parking fee is NT$50/hr

3. Empire State Building basement parking lot
    No. 259, Sec. 2, Guangfu Rd., East Dist., Hsinchu City 300
    Parking fee is NT$40/hr

4. a. Mart Hsinchu branch
    No. 469, Sec. 2, Gongdao 5th Rd., East Dist., Hsinchu City 300
    Free for 3 hrs if you buy things in the mart. If no, parking fee is NT$20/hr.

5. TPE ONE parking lot
    No. 1, Sec. 3, Gongdao 5th Rd., East Dist., Hsinchu City 300
    Parking fee is NT$40/hr

By Taiwan Railway：

Get off at the Hsinchu station.
1. Take taxi for 10-15 minutes to our center.
2. Take Hsinchu City Bus No. 1,2 or 31, and get off at Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) station, then walk for 5 minutes.

Train Schedule
City Bus Schedule (Chinese only)

By Taiwan High Speed Rail：

Get off at Hsinchu station. Then you can 1. Take taxi for 15-20 minutes 2. Take Kuo-Kuang Bus No.182, and get off at Mackay Hospital, then walk for 10 minutes.

HSR Train Schedule
Kuo-Kuang Bus Schedule


By Express Bus

◆Southbound：
  Take Hsinchu Bus 9003 or Kuo-Kuang Bus 1822(Taipei-Hsinchu). Get off at Mackay Memorial Hospital, and walk along GuangFu Road towards Mackay Hospital. Turn right to ZhongXiao Road and walk for 10 minutes.

◆Northbound：
  Take Hsinchu Bus 9010 or Kuo-Kuang Bus 1866(Taichung-Hsinchu). Get off at Mackay Memorial Hospital, and walk along GuangFu Road towards Mackay Hospital. Turn right to ZhongXiao Road and walk for 10 minutes.

Kuo-Kuang Bus Schedule
Hsinchu Bus Scedule

Transportation to Stork 11 Fertility Center (Taipei).

Address: 1F., No.189, Lequn 2nd Rd., Zhongshan Dist., Taipei City 10462, Taiwan



By Cars：

◆Southbound lane of Zhongshan National Highway.
Please get off at exit A23 (heading for Yuanshan) → Binjiang Street(Toward the Dazhi) → turn left to Dazhi Bridge → trun right to Mingshui Road → turn right to Lequn 2nd Road→ turn left to Jingye 4th Road and Stork 11 Fertility Center (Taipei) will be on your left hand side.
◆Northbound lane of Zhongshan National Highway Sijhih-Wugu overpass
Please get off at exit A18 heading for Neihu Tiding → Second section of Jiuzong Road → Second section of Tiding Avenue (heading for Dazhi) → turn left to Lequn 2nd Road → turn right to Jingye 4th Road and Stork 11 Fertility Center (Taipei) will be on your left hand side.

 By Metro Taipei：

Take MRT Brown Line(Wenhu Line), and get off at Jiannan Rd. Station Exit 3. Walk along Zhifu Road, and turn right to Jingye 4th Road. Then go straight to Jingye 4th Road. Stork 11 Fertility Center will be on your right hand side, across from the Marriott Hotel.

By Bus：

◆BUS A Jingye 4th Road：208、33、42(Shuttle)、553、72、BL20、BL7
◆BUS B Dazhi meidi Garden II：268、42、553、645(sub)、BR20、R3(Shuttle)、GR16、BL20(Shuttle)、BL26、BL7
◆BUS C Dazhi meidi Garden I：268、645(sub)、667、BR20、R3(Shuttle)、GR16、BL26

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Sperm Donation Program

Sperm Donation Program


When male lose their sperm production function or have some chromosomal abnormal disease, the couple need to get pregnant through sperm donation program. Stork Fertility Center established our own sperm bank. The donors all pass through our strict health examinations and interview. We provide sperm donors of every blood type. As soon as you submit the documents, we will start pairing process and IUI or IVF treatment. Fulfill your dream to become parents.

 Process of Sperm Donation Program


Q&A about sperm donor program

What kind of health assessments we do for sperm donors?
  1. Assessments include the following: Counseling for hereditary diseases and hereditary psychiatric disorders; Blood testing, including tests for infectious diseases such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C, syphilis, gonorrhea and AIDS; Tests for genetic diseases such as thalassemia (complete blood count, CBC) and spinal muscular atrophy (genetic testing), karyotype testing and toxicology screening (urinanalysis).
  2. There are still risk for other diseases that are not included in the donor assessment or cannot be anticipated by the Center.


Is it OK to use freeze sperm in sperm donor program?

    Embryologists freeze the donor sperm using a special media then keep sperm in liquid nitrogen at minus 196C, and it can be stored for more than ten years while maintaining a reasonable quality. And the post-thaw survival rate is around 30-50%.

How many times can I use the donor sperm?

Varies from treatment.

IVF treatment- Generally 3-4 times. Use intracytoplasmic sperm injection(ICSI) to choose good sperm for insemination.

IUI treatment- Generally 1-2 times. Need to raise the success rate by plenty amount of sperm. Thawing more tubes of sperm can add the number that can use for the treatment.

Can I see photos of sperm donors?

In accordance with the regulations of the Artificial Reproduction Act, the Center can        only provide information concerning the donor's skin color, blood type and race for            reference. All other data shall be kept confidential. And recipients information are            also confidential to donors. Therefore, you're not able to know each other.

Can I use designated donor?

In accordance with the regulations of the Artificial Reproduction Act, the Center can't use
designated donor by recipients' request. And the donor can't designate 
the recipients either. Therefore, you can't not bring your friend or family as donor.

Is there any chance that my child will get married with donor's offspring?

There is very little chance. But if you're worried about it, Ministry of Health and Welfare has Regulations for Inquiring Kinship Information of Concern to the Children Born Through Assisted Reproduction. They can check if there are kinship between them. But they won't disclose donor's information. 
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PGS (Preimplantation Genetic Screening)
PGS (Preimplantation Genetic Screening) is an examination for testing if there are any chromosomal abnormalities of the embryo prior to transferring. Utilizing the most advanced Next Generation Sequencing(NGS) technique, PGS are used to detect if there is any extra or missing copies of 23 pairs of chromosomes, deletion of large-DNA segment (≧10 Mb) and unbalanced translocation. The process of PGS will first start from performing the biopsies of each embryo. These biopsies would be undergone whole genomic amplification. The library of the embryos would be created by bio-molecular approaches and sequenced. The data would be interpreted by an internal software, which illustrate if there is any chromosome abnormality comparing with normal 46 chromosomes. Better than traditional array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) platform, PGS acquire advantages including rapidity, high level accuracy and high level sensitivity.  

Having a healthy baby is the expectation of every parent. PGS allows us to examine chromosomes of the embryo and to select a normal embryo before transfer. Which not only increase the implantation rate and pregnancy rate but also reduce the probability of early miscarriage. 

Who should consider doing PGS?
  • Female who is over the age of 35 years old.
  • Female who has experienced miscarriages for more than 2 times.
  • Multiple unsuccessful IVF treatments.
  • Inherited chromosomal abnormalities or chromosomal translocation.
  • Severe male infertility.
The process of PGS
  • Evaluation and consultation.
  • Signing the PGS consents after the limitation and risk of PGS are fully explained.
  • Start entering the IVF treatment. The operation of oocytes retrieval would be at around day 12-14 of the period.
  • Embryologists will fertilize the oocytes on the date of oocytes retrieval.
  • After in-vitro culture for at least 5-7 days, the blastocysts will be graded and undergone biopsy.
  • The biopsies would be sent to examination (which will take around 7-10 working days).
  • Selecting the euploid embryos to transfer.
What disease could be examined by PGS?
Aneuploidy: Down syndrome, Turnur syndrome, Klinefelter's syndrome, Edwards syndrome, Patau syndrome, etc.
Large deletion (≧10 Mb): Prader-Willi syndrome, Cri-du-chat syndrome, DiGeorge syndrome, Angelman syndrome, etc.

Limitation
Although this test has a high level of accuracy, limitations are still present in current science and technology. PGS cannot be used to examine single gene mutation disease (ex. Thalassemia, Muscular dystrophy, Hemophilia), short DNA deletion, balanced translocation and polyploid. Therefore, high-level prenatal checks should still be done during pregnancy. Amniocentesis is recommended between 16 to 20 weeks of pregnancy.



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