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Get Started
You are all set and good to move forward. Focus on the treatment program and let’s bring your baby to you.
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Choose the Best Course of Action
Based on the findings you can choose the right treatment package and payment plan including insurance program authorization, paying fully, or selecting the installment contract.
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Send Us Your Insurance Card
You can bring your card along when visiting for consultation or take a nice and clean pic of the insurance card and send it over email, fax, or through your patient portal.
You will travel to our San Diego location (all expenses covered) for retrieval. Eggs are retrieved vaginally through a 15-minute minimally invasive procedure under sedation. You will return home between 24-48 hours after your retrieval
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Hormone Therapy 101
Testosterone causes significant changes in the body. These can include stopping menstrual cycles and egg production. If you have already begun a hormonal transition, you need to stop testosterone to allow the eggs in your ovaries to develop again. The return of normal menstrual cycles suggests that the ovaries have resumed their normal ovulatory function. While it is possible to restore fertility after stopping testosterone intake, there isn’t a 100% guarantee. Transgender men who still have a womb can carry a pregnancy to term but will need to go off testosterone because it can inhibit the growth of a developing baby.
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Egg Retrieval
You will travel to our San Diego location with all necessary expenses covered. One of our skilled physicians will retrieve the eggs vaginally through a minimally invasive procedure.
Extensive Donor Database
You’ll find your perfect match through our extensive donor database. Whether you are looking for a donor with high IQ, specific aesthetics, gifts or talents, our matching program assures you select the characteristics most important to you.
Egg Bank
Your journey to parenthood will be shorter and more predictable because of our Egg Bank. Quality donor eggs are frozen through vitrification and stored in our on-site laboratory. Electing to use bank to eggs puts you in control of your timeline, since they are available for immediate use. Additionally, selecting donors from our bank eliminates waiting time and unforeseen setbacks. You will maximize success rates due to a guaranteed yield of high quality, mature eggs.
If You Are Partnered With Another Transgender Man
If your partner is another trans man, your frozen eggs can be inseminated with the donor’s sperm to produce embryos. The resulting embryo can then be transferred into a Surrogate who will help you carry the pregnancy
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Transfer
The day after hatching, the embryo is transferred to the uterus where it will hopefully implant and result in a successful pregnancy.
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Thinning or Rupture
The embryo is held with a specialized holding pipette. A very delicate, hollow needle is used to expel the acidic solution against the outer “shell” (zona pellucida) of the embryo. The acidic solution creates a small hole in the shell.
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Find a Clinic
Once a donor is matched, the intended mother/Surrogate and the donor will undergo medical screening and start the cycle synchronization. You have to partner with a fertility clinic to complete this step. The surrogacy agency itself is a full-service fertility center and has a reputable record of above national average success rate.
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Freezing
You have a higher chance for a successful pregnancy with the development of the “flash freezing” process, known as vitrification. Until vitrification was introduced a decade ago, frozen embryos had a very low implantation and live birth rate. One of the primary issues was the freezing process itself. The slow freezing method enabled ice crystals to form within the embryo, which damaged it to the point at which they were not longer viable. Fortunately, with the development vitrification, more than 90% of the frozen embryos survive thawing and are the same quality as fresh embryos.
Your eggs are handled and stored securely in surrogacy’s agency on-site laboratory. Unlike other fertility labs, surrogacy agency has a full time Laboratory Director which reflects our commitment to quality as the lab accounts for over 40% of the overall success of IVF.
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Egg Retrieval
A transvaginal ultrasound aspiration is used to retrieve eggs from the ovaries. The procedure is a minimally invasive, non-surgical and always conducted under sedation. The procedure itself lasts 10-20 minutes.
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Hormone Stimulation
Hormone injections are administered for 10-14 days in order to stimulate the ovaries, so you release more eggs. Normally our bodies release just one egg each month but with cryopreservation the goal is to retrieve as many healthy eggs as possible.
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Consultation and Fertility Testing
The consultation will be dedicated to enhancing your understanding and setting realistic goals. Your fertility doctor will perform a physical exam and initial fertility tests. After the tests have been evaluated, our expert medical team will move forward with creating a personalized plan.
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Welcome
Upon your arrival, you will check in with a Patient Care Coordinator.
Congratulations! You meet the prequalification criteria.
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