Anyone notice other differences between the programs 1:1, 1:2 and 1:3 other than quantity of eggs? I am new to the game.

Anonymous wrote:Question---- I am 100% sure they told me when you do a donor cycle you are guaranteed 4 mature eggs--- no matter which program. If you don't get 4 mature eggs, you get money back. That's whether you pay out of pocket or in shred risk. Granted, none of those may fertilize or do anything--- but if you don't get 4, you get full refund or get to pick new donor. Is that correct?

That is correct.

Question---- I am 100% sure they told me when you do a donor cycle you are guaranteed 4 mature eggs--- no matter which program. If you don't get 4 mature eggs, you get money back. That's whether you pay out of pocket or in shred risk. Granted, none of those may fertilize or do anything--- but if you don't get 4, you get full refund or get to pick new donor. Is that correct?

A single (not shared-risk) 1:3 DE cycle costs $14K. For 3 recipients the cost = $42K/cycle

Your cost for taking 2 shares should be $28K.

The only real recipient fees that you're talking about that wouldn't be used are two monitoring appointments and one transfer. How much do you think they should comp you for that?

I'm not surprised this doesn't come up often, people go with shared risk shared cycles to save money.

OP- that is what they are telling us- We understand paying 2x the donor fees, but we don't think we should pay 2x the recipient costs. We are willing to pay their premium so they come out whole- but there are services that they are not providing us twice and so we do not feel that we should pay 2x the recipient cost, we think it should be 1x plus X (the question is what is the X- i.e. their premium).
We're just surprised no one has done this before.

Wouldn't you just pay twice the fee? Otherwise SGF is losing out on having a true third recipient.

OP- we want to have more than one child and would like them to be full sibs. We understand that Shady Grove guarantees a minimum of 4 eggs per lot, so depending on donor egg production (hopefully more than four, but possibly not) and number of cycles it takes us for a live birth, we're willing to spend a little more to make sure we have embryos to freeze. We would have preferred doing 1:2 donor, but the donor we liked was 1:3 and another recipient had already selected her.

Anonymous wrote:OP- Never mind- we learned they've never done this before. No wonder I'm not getting responses! But this whole thing is ridiculous/frustrating/exhausting... *sigh*

OP, why would you pay for 2 shares if it is a refundable program? The donors they select usually produce a lot of eggs, I think ours produced 18 -we put two in, 1 fertilized and we ended up freezing 3 blasts. DD (from the initial 2) is 6. It seems a little silly to me.

OP- Never mind- we learned they've never done this before. No wonder I'm not getting responses! But this whole thing is ridiculous/frustrating/exhausting... *sigh*

OP adding on- any advice on how you selected shared risk vs using your own insurance welcome. Our insurance covers me for 50%.

We selected a donor, and opted to take 2 shares of a 1:3 egg donor. They seem to be having a lot of trouble figuring how much our fee should be and I'm wondering if others have done this and can share their financial options.
Thanks so much!