Transportation of frozen embryos

1. How the frozen embryo creation and transportation program works
2. Embryos transportation process
3. Who needs the cryopreserved embryos transportation service
4. Checking and accepting an order for cryopreserved embryo transportation

Embryo cryopreservation technology has been used worldwide for over 20 years.

Transportation of cryopreserved embryos is relevant to couples who already have a cryopreserved embryo in the IVF country, while the IVF program with a participation of a surrogate mother is planned to be realized in another country, where surrogacy is permitted by law.

It is known that the pregnancy rate using cryopreserved embryos is 50-70 %, which is 2-3 times higher than in a fresh embryo transfer.

The Feskov Human Reproduction Group offers a unique new service of transporting your cryopreserved embryos for surrogacy programs to any country, where surrogacy is permitted.

Service benefits

Increased Convenience and Efficiency

Flexibility

Avoid the time-sensitive nature of fresh embryo transfer cycles

Transportation of frozen embryos is a service that allows you to become parents without coming to Ukraine!

Without leaving your country or even your city, you can get access to Ukrainian reproductive medicine, which is not inferior to the medicine of the USA or Japan, choose a surrogate mother and trust her to bear your child and get ready to receive good news about the long-awaited pregnancy. All you need to do is deliver your cryopreserved embryos to our clinic by simply ordering our delivery service from your country.

The service of transferring cryopreserved embryos will be useful to intended parents in the following situations:

• You have embryos left after unsuccessful IVF in your country and you want to transport them to the country where IVF with a surrogate mother is carried out;
• You do not have embryos and you want to carry out a remote program with a surrogate mother: in this case, our embryologists come to your country to create embryos, perform cryopreservation of embryos and transport them to Ukraine as part of a package program;
• After having carried out the IVF program with us, you want to take the remaining embryos with you: in this case, we store frozen embryos and organize their transportation to a cryobank in your country.

We do not limit ourselves to the transport of embryos only - we also transport cryopreserved eggs and sperm to create healthy embryos and perform AGD in our laboratory.

Cryopreservation of embryos and their use in a reproductive programme not only saves time and money, but also increases the likelihood of pregnancy compared to fresh embryo transfe.

How the frozen embryo creation and transportation program works

The frozen embryo transportation service is included in the price of your chosen program from the VIP level or is paid for separately in the Comfort and Balance packages. In the case of VIP packages, if pregnancy does not occur, to proceed to the creation of new embryos with your or donor eggs, you will only need to pay for the services of a courier company to deliver genetic materials to us. Guest services, medical procedures, legal support for the legalization of a newborn are included in the price of all packages.

We offer not just a cryo-frozen embryo transportation service, but a comprehensive guaranteed program with the birth of a healthy child. Reproductive clinics offer the service of creating embryos and a limited number of transfers at a cost of $50-60,000. If pregnancy does not occur or is interrupted, the intended parents do not have a child, there is a loss of $50-60,000 and the need to re-pay the same amount to repeat the program. Feskov Human Reproduction Group guarantees the birth of a healthy child within the framework of the program costing the same $60,000.

If the transfer of cryo-frozen embryos delivered to the clinic did not result in pregnancy and the birth of a child, the intended parents will only need to pay for the services of a courier company for the delivery of genetic materials for the creation of new embryos. The entire medical part of the program, including the creation of new embryos, will be carried out without repeated payments.

The creation and transportation of your embryos by Feskov Human Reproduction Group embryologists has significant advantages compared to the delivery to Ukraine of embryos created in another clinic. This is due to the guarantee of 100% genetic relationship of at least one of the intended parents with the embryo, as well as the guarantee of the birth of a healthy child thanks to PGD, which is included in the cost of our programs.

Embryos transportation process

Your cryopreserved embryos in cryounits will be placed in our shipping dewar, which is equipped with a temperature sensor. All temperature variations are controlled by a program manager of the Center for Human Reproduction Clinic of professor Feskov.

Dewar is sealed by the customs service of the country, from which the embryos are exported. Technicians of the Embryology Laboratory receive the dewar at the airport.

This allows controlling conditions of the first trip of your future children.

In the future, your cryopreserved embryos will be transferred into the uterus of a surrogate mother, who has already been examined and prepared for the embryo transfer procedure.

Our experts

Yeugenia ZhilkovaEmbryologist

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Olena SomovaEmbryologist

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Alexander Mikhailovich FeskovMD., Ph.D., Professor, founder and director of Feskov Human Reproduction Group, member of ASRM, ESHRE.

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Who needs the cryopreserved embryos transportation service

1. Couples, in the country of residence of which the surrogacy is prohibited.
2. Save your time: the IVF procedure is performed in your country of residence, and then our courier transports embryos to Ukraine.
3. Save your money: conduct the IVF program to obtain a cryopreserved embryo in your country of residence in those countries where there is a state program for treatment of infertility (reimbursed with your insurance), then our courier transports the cryopreserved embryos to Ukraine for the further transfer of the cryopreserved embryos into the uterus of a surrogate mother.
4. After unsuccessful attempts in other clinics, you can transport your cryopreserved embryos for the implementation of the program and have success in the Feskov Human Reproduction Group.

To do this you need to:

• have cryopreserved (frozen) embryos;
• undergo a screening for HIV, RW, hepatitis B, hepatitis C (you may send the results of these tests of your spouse to our clinic by mail) (if cryopreserved embryos are obtained from both genetic parents, you will need to send us an e-mail with the tests results of both parents, the tests list will be provided by our Surrogacy Center);
• have a documentary basis for the surrogacy program (a copy of a marriage certificate, copies of passports of both spouses, copies of the previous IVF programs protocols, if any, a copy of the medical conclusion of infertility).

Checking and accepting an order for cryopreserved embryo transportation

After each request from future parents for the cryopreserved embryo transportation service, we gather a council of doctors and international program managers to give you an answer as to whether we can fulfill your order. We evaluate the following parameters:

• Which clinic and embryological laboratory created the embryos? Whose sex cells were used? If the embryos were not created in the European Union or the USA, we need to make sure that the clinic that created the embryos works according to the same high standards as Feskov Human Reproduction Group.
• Embryo passport: day of development, morphological parameters, whether PGD was performed. Based on the results of the assessment of these parameters, we will be able to consult you on the prospects for transferring your embryos (for example, the transfer of embryos on the 3rd day of cultivation may result in the birth of a child, but without PGD, we cannot guarantee you a healthy child. There are also other technological nuances that are necessarily discussed with the intended parents).

Future parents will need to undergo several tests in their country at our partner clinic to assess the reproductive potential of their cryopreserved embryos as accurately as possible.

Taking into account the above, it becomes clear why programs with existing embryos delivered to the clinic are more expensive than transporting your oocytes and sperm to create embryos in our laboratory. The main factors are the guarantee of your and our safety by confirming your relationship with the embryos and the guarantee of the birth of a healthy child thanks to PGD.

Establishing your relationship with the embryos is a critical point required by the Law. In Ukraine, in 2018, an emergency occurred: an embryo delivered from Italy was transferred to a surrogate mother. After the birth of the child, it turned out that he had no genetic connection with either of the parents. The result is a criminal case against the clinic, the impossibility of legalizing the newborn by the intended parents.

To prevent anything like this from happening, we are extremely careful about establishing genetic relationship: in the first trimester of pregnancy, we carry out a genetic test (intended parents will need to submit blood at our partner clinic and order samples to be delivered to our clinic). If at this stage it turns out that your cryobank has mixed up the embryos, the only way out will be to terminate the surrogate mother's pregnancy for social reasons. Due to such uncertainty, finding a surrogate mother who agrees to a transfer without guarantees is also a difficult task, which leads to an increase in the cost of the program.

You can assess the health of the embryos in your country: a reproductive clinic can offer you defrosting, embryo biopsy and re-freezing. However, you should know that a single freezing is safe and does not affect the viability of 99% of embryos, how your embryos will tolerate repeated vitrification is an open question, no one's going to make any definite predictions.

If you have cryo-frozen embryos or you want to create them and transport them to us for a reproductive program, order a free consultation with Feskov Human Reproduction Group specialists. We will tell you about all the nuances and select the most reliable option for you.

With us you can use the most advanced reproductive technologies at affordable prices and make your dream of a child's birth a reality!

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