Post-Cycle Services

Record Retention
Many recipient parents are concerned about contacting the donor for medical or other needs in the future. While clinics are mandated to retain records of your cycle for a significant period of time, Prospective Families is required to keep a file on your cycle for a minimum of 10 years following the retrieval. However, Prospective Families is committing to retain records on the Donors for a minimum of 18 years.

In addition to retaining cycle records, which will include the donor's social security number allowing us to easily locate the donor should her current contact information change, Prospective Families will give its best efforts to maintain annual contact with the donor so that we may have readily available updated contact information.

Cycle Outcome
While Prospective Families acknowledges and respects a recipient's discretion about the outcome of the cycle, we encourage you to consider that we value your sharing information about egg count, embryo count and pregnancy results as well as news of a birth.

Throughout the matching and cycle process we hope to establish, through our commitment and collaborative approach, that we genuinely share your hope for a successful outcome. We are delighted to hear of good results and want to work with you in understanding disappointing outcomes. It is our practice to reach out to you immediately following the retrieval to share our sincere best wishes and we hope that you will then be comfortable informing us of the cycle results.

This information is valuable, too, for our next recipient who may be considering working with the donor you cycled with. Just as you may have relied on cycle history information when selecting a donor, that information was made available to you because past recipients were generous and kind in sharing their cycle outcome and the next recipient will be able to make a more informed donor selection because of news of your cycle.

Non-Urgent Donor Contact
Often, recipients become interested in reaching out to the donor, through the agency, in the days following the retrieval, at the holidays, at the time of a birth or at other times in order to send the donor a note or gesture of gratitude. Prospective Families is pleased to facilitate this type of gesture and can work with the recipients to make the sort of arrangements they are intending.

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