Split Cycles for Two Sperm Providers

During a split cycle, RMA of New York’s Third Party team will work with you and your partner, as well as your egg donor and gestational surrogate. If you have not already selected an egg donor and/or surrogate, our team can help you understand and evaluate your option. RMA of New York also has its own renowned Egg Donation Program that offers recipients a pool of carefully-screened non-identified (anonymous) egg donors. Our clinical team manages the medical aspects of your care, as well as the egg donor’s treatment cycle, and the gestational surrogate’s embryo transfer cycle. If you will be utilizing frozen donor eggs, our team will coordinate shipment with your chosen donor egg bank, and the eggs will be safely stored at one of RMA of New York’s four full-service IVF laboratory locations.

Once the donor egg source is secured and the eggs are either retrieved on-site via an egg retrieval procedure by one of our physicians or are obtained from an outside egg donor bank, you and your partner will produce semen samples. Sperm can be collected at one of our offices or home and promptly dropped off at our office. The eggs are divided into two groups, and the sperm from each partner is combined with each set of donor eggs within the IVF laboratory in order to create two sets of embryos. A fresh embryo may be transferred to the uterus of the gestational surrogate a few days later, and/or embryos may be frozen for future use. RMA of New York also offers PGT (preimplantation genetic testing), which provides genetic information about the embryos, such as genetic disorders, aneuploidy, and gender.