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Selecting partners to work with isn’t a task we take lightly. We’ve spent months, sometimes in excess of a year building on a relationship. We have to feel comfortable when aligning our brand with a product or service. Altrui has been on quite the journey and is now one larger organisation with two brands offering specialist services. Hear from them in this guest blog below.

Surrogacy can be extremely difficult to navigate. That’s why we’re so thrilled to partner with an expert, compassionate team that works so hard to take confusion out of the process. Through our partnership with MSJ and TwoDadsUK we’re proud to offer donor and fertility care so important to the surrogacy journey. 

Apricity & Altrui

Apricity & Altrui are the same company, with different specialities. Altrui, with its proven track record of finding and supporting egg donors, is the egg donation arm and responsible for finding and matching you with an altruistic egg donor. Apricity, with its medical expertise, network of clinics and 7/7 support, is the fertility arm and responsible for medical treatment.

Egg Donor Match, Screen & Embryology Package

Our Egg Donor Match, Screen & Embryology Package combines our expertise in egg donation with our excellence in fertility to meet the needs of intended parents on the surrogacy pathway.

You would start your journey with Altrui, who will listen to your needs and preferences to find you an egg donor. Once you are happy with the match, you (and the egg donor) are transferred to Apricity, who handle the fertility care, from the medical screening of the donor, all the way up to egg collection and embryology. Within this service, we:

• Find you the perfect egg donor according to your needs and preferences 
• Perform strict medical screening and legal requirements, such as blood tests and implications counselling
• Accompany the egg donor through an egg donation cycle. When her eggs are collected, they will all go to you, giving an excellent chance at pregnancy and an opportunity for genetically-related siblings
• Perform the steps necessary for embryology, from receiving and washing a sperm sample to culturing the eggs and sperm into embryos, ready for transfer to your surrogate

Egg Donor Match & Screen Package

For those not ready for embryology yet, we also offer a service where we find the perfect egg donor and complete all initial medical screening needed to be accepted as a donor (Egg Donor Match & Screen Package). 

These plans do not include treatment, medication, and embryo transfer for the surrogate. This can be facilitated within one of our partner clinics. 

Why our way?

Our excellent success rates from donor eggs and commitment to patient care make us a great choice for supporting your surrogacy journey. You’ll benefit from:

• 1:1 Donation: unlike egg banks, where you purchase a set number of donor eggs, we match intended parents with one donor. All of that donor’s eggs are given to you.
• Matching in 6 weeks: currently, our average waiting time for an egg donor is 6 weeks (40 days). This is the time from when you’d book our help to being matched to a generous donor. 
• Direct altruistic donors: all of our donors are ‘direct donors’, meaning they are not undergoing fertility treatment themselves (as is often the case with egg sharing).
• Extensive donor information: from physical attributes to information on background, children and words written by the donor. We include a photograph of her as a baby or small child when possible, and look for a donor we think you would really like, if you knew her.
• Cost-effective: although there are no guarantees in fertility treatments, the average number of eggs collected from donors is 16.
• Opportunity for genetically-related siblings: because all of a donor’s eggs go to you, there is a strong chance that you can try for genetically-related siblings.
• Virtual clinic model: available to help cut down on unnecessary travel for you and your donor.
• 7/7 Fertility advisors: when you or your donor moves into fertility treatment, so you’re never in the dark.
• App: offering you and your donor instant access to a dedicated medical team.

Want to find out more? Watch our pre-recorded webinar

Learn more with Apricity’s Chief Medical Officer and Altrui’s Lead at our pre-recorded webinar available on TwoDads UK Instagram account.

Patient support has always been at the core of TwoDadsUK and My Surrogacy Journey’s mission. Navigating fertility treatment, especially surrogacy is an overwhelming experience – this is why we only partner with organisations that have experience is providing exceptional patient care and industry leading personalised service.

Michael Johnson-Ellis; co-founder TwoDadsUK and My Surrogacy Journey

To find how Altrui can find the perfect egg donor for your surrogacy journey, visit Altrui.