About Us

Atlantic Shared Beginnings’ Story

Atlantic Shared Beginnings offers pathways to pregnancy and family building to those who need the help of donor eggs or donor embryos fertilized by partner sperm or donor sperm.

We feel privileged with one of the most rewarding professional endeavors–helping individuals and couples achieve their dream of building a family.

Our partnership with Atlantic Reproductive Medicine makes us uniquely positioned to offer the best in pregnancy and family-building programs to those needing donor eggs to grow their families.

Our partnership with Atlantic Reproductive Medicine results in the highest screening of egg donors and the best medical services for our donors and recipients.

All of our egg donors undergo their donor stimulation and retrieval cycles at Atlantic Reproductive Medicine under the supervision of our highly qualified and experienced physicians.

All Atlantic Shared Beginnings embryos are created in our state-of-the-art embryology lab at Atlantic Reproductive Medicine with the expertise of our highly experienced embryologists.

Our agency is in the same building as Atlantic Reproductive Medicine in Raleigh, North Carolina. We serve patients from all over the state, region, country, and the world.

The History of Atlantic Reproductive Medicine and Atlantic Shared Beginnings

Atlantic Reproductive Medicine was founded by physicians David Walmer, MD, and Susannah Copland, MD in 2012 to help patients with fertility challenges.

These physician-scientists wanted to provide the best-tailored, evidence-based treatment plans using the most up-to-date technologies to help individuals and couples achieve their dream of overcoming their fertility challenges to start or grow their families. They focused on providing a very personalized, relationship-based approach to caring for their fertility patients.

Atlantic Shared Beginnings was founded to help those patients who cannot use their own eggs to start their families or in the case of male couples, need an egg to start a family.

Atlantic Shared Beginnings works with these patients to create their own embryos. Recipients will choose an egg donor from ASB’s highly-screened pool. The fresh eggs selected from the chosen donor can be fertilized by a partner sperm or a donor sperm. As a recipient, you are matched with your chosen egg donor who is cycling for your batch of eggs.

Is Atlantic Shared Beginnings an Egg Bank?

Atlantic Shared Beginning is not an Egg Bank? Atlantic Shared Beginnings is committed to helping recipients create their own embryos that match their unique family needs. We only work with fresh egg donors selected by our intended parents.

Does Atlantic Shared Beginnings have a Sperm Bank?

Atlantic Shared Beginning does not have a Sperm Bank. Atlantic Shared Beginnings is committed to helping recipients create their own embryos that match their unique family needs. After choosing a fresh egg donor, intended parents use their partner’s sperm or can select sperm from one of our approved sperm banks, California Cryo Bank and Seattle Sperm Bank, to fertilize their eggs.

Atlantic Shared Beginnings’ Programs

Begin learning about our different program options using fresh donor eggs and donor/donor embryos below, and then explore all of our website pages to learn everything about us.

We welcome your questions by email, and we welcome the opportunity to talk with you during a complimentary consultation.

Which Program is Right for You?

Fresh Donor Eggs

With our Fresh Donor Egg Program, recipients will choose the egg lot size that best fits their needs. Our updated pricing includes the costs of the donor eggs as well as all of the fertilization fees. PGT-A testing can be added per patient request for an additional fee payable to Atlantic Reproductive Medicine.

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Donor/Donor Embryos

With our Donor/Donor Embryo program, recipients have the option of qualifying for the 12-week Pregnancy Guarantee or choosing Transfer Ready embryos, where multiple embryos can be selected and shipped to the recipient’s local clinic for transfer. PGT-A testing is included in the Donor/ Donor Embryo program.

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