What is a Shared Cycle?

Shared Donor Egg Cycles are immensely an affordable option and new outlook for Intended Parents.

Shared Cycle Defined

A donor’s eggs are public to two (or three) recipients who divide the cost of treatment. For some, this is a lucrative way to meet the expenses of egg donation.

The Egg Donor is hormonally injected and egg retrieval is executed. The resultant eggs are split correspondingly between the two parties (or three) and the eggs are fertilized with the Intended Fathers sperm of each side. The Intended Parents remain anonymous to each other both before and after the procedure.

Egg donors who take part in shared cycles typically have encompassed a previous fruitful donor egg cycle specifically designated for shared donors. The recipients may be selected as primary and secondary beneficiaries, which would determine who benefits first for the eggs if there are only an odd number of eggs to be utilized. These aliases may resolute by who first engaged with the donor, or the length of time the donor has been waiting.