Why We're Different
How is Shared Beginnings different?
Discover why Shared Beginnings is more than just an egg and embryo bank—it’s a partner in your path to parenthood.
Shared Beginnings
Staffed by
Top-tier, board-certified medical providers
Financial assurance
Financial protections built into every program
Embryo quality
Each embryo is fully screened, with optional PGT-A
Egg options
Frozen and fresh options for better success rates
Affordability
Shared donor model offers higher success at lower cost
Geographic coverage
Global delivery; coordinated with your local clinic
Mental health support
In-house mental health resources
Other providers
Staffed by
Business people, not medical providers
Financial assurance
Significant cost with no path forward if things don't work out
Embryo quality
Minimal screening; additional testing is patient-directed
Egg options
Frozen only, which yields lower success rates
Affordability
Higher cost
Geographic coverage
Local or regional coverage only
Mental health support
Patient seeks out separate mental health provider
The same dream for a third less.
Traditional agencies outsource and bill every step separately. Our shared, fully-integrated, medically-led model bundles it all into one low fee, with higher success rates.
How much is your time worth?
Patients using traditional donor agencies have the additional headache and emotional burden of coordinating between the agency and their clinic. With Shared Beginnings, it’s handled.
Shared Beginnings
Intended Parent
Traditional Agency
1
More rigorous screening
Medical, genetic, psychological and FDA screening is more comprehensive, yielding higher-quality embryos.
2
Higher success rates
A 77% pregnancy rate with donor sperm, and 74% with a partner’s, both above national averages.
3
Shared donor cycles
One donor’s eggs are thoughtfully shared, so the cost of screening and retrieval is distributed.
4
Medically led, end-to-end
Built and delivered by medical professionals from screening through creation, not coordinated by businesspeople.
5
No travel costs
Embryos are shipped to your local clinic, eliminating the donor travel traditional agencies require.
77%
Pregnancy rate fresh donor egg / donor sperm²
74%
Pregnancy rate fresh donor egg / partner sperm²
Who We Are
Care you can trust, from people who understand
*Costs are estimated and vary by agency, fertility clinic, donor, intended parent location, and other factors. Shared Beginnings has one fee covering everything above; fertilization fees are paid directly to your clinic and shipping to your local clinic is not included. Traditional-agency figures are representative à-la-carte costs.
¹Based on 2023 Shared Beginnings FET data for donor/donor embryos vs. 2023 national SART data for donated embryos; ²2023 Shared Beginnings FET data