I’m 41 years old and I did embryo donation at EmBIO IVF clinic in Athens. We needed both donor eggs and sperm donation. My husband has azoospermia, and I had 8 IVF tries in France, sometimes with 10 eggs, other times with 7 eggs, but not of good quality. So in September 2013 I decided for egg donation.

The problem with donor egg ivf in France is that there are not enough egg donors and the demand is great. So you need to wait for 4 or 5 years. It’s more difficult for me, because I needed eggs from a black donor, which was even harder to find. The age limit for donor egg ivf is 42 in France, so when you are 38, you’re practically out of the list (38 + 4 years queue, you do the math).

At Embio Medical Centre all staff are well chosen – the nurses, the IVF coordinators, the secretaries, all were so good. I have a lot of confidence in Dr Paraschos. He is attentive, understanding, he listens, and he does things himself (the embryo transfer, the scans). This is very good. He must go on doing things himself. And he’s tender. He doesn’t hurt you with the vaginal tests, the ultrasound and the embryo transfer. During the embryo transfer you feel no pain at all! And after the embryo transfer, they let you rest as long as you need to, which also felt good.

We had 5 embryos transferred – three embryos on Wednesday, and 2 blastocysts on Friday (2 days later).