What is the process for donating embryos through Beginnings?
- Initial contact via website, email or phone call
- Consultation with Beginnings staff
- Donors must have at least two embryos to donate
- Completion of registration forms and Service Agreement
- Complete an Assessment including full medical and social history
- Provide a lab report on the embryos
- Confirmation of testing for any infectious diseases or known genetic disorders from the donor’s clinic
- Provide a family photograph and information on donor’s children
- Review recipient profiles and select a family
- Meeting and/or phone call with recipient(s) arranged with full information disclosure
- Participate in an Openness Agreement with the recipient(s) regarding ongoing contact
- Notification of the fertility clinic where embryos are stored
- Completion of legal agreement for embryo release
- Donor responsibility for embryos ceases
- Donors are informed of outcomes and ongoing contact maintained
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