For many women considering IVF with donor eggs, one question often comes up very early in the journey:

“Will the baby look like me?”

It’s a natural concern. Physical resemblance plays an important role in how many intended parents imagine their future family.

What many patients don’t realise is that fertility clinics use a detailed donor matching process designed to find the closest possible physical and biological match between donor and recipient.

In this article, we explain how clinics select egg donors, what characteristics are considered during matching, and what patients should expect when starting IVF with donor eggs abroad.