Nest Egg Fertility

Nest Egg Fertility is a for-profit assisted reproduction agency based in Santa Monica, California. It works with intended parents and gestational carriers as a full-service agency, and its programs also include egg donation and egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation). The team is small, in the range of roughly fifteen people.

The agency was founded by Shalene Petricek. According to its website, she spent seventeen years in the biotech industry before starting the agency and went through egg freezing as a patient herself, an experience the site presents as part of why the company was created.

Its services cover both surrogacy and third-party egg donation, so intended parents can build a path that uses a gestational carrier, donor eggs, or both. The agency says it works exclusively in surrogacy-friendly states for its U.S. program, and it also describes international surrogacy programs, which its materials position as a lower-cost option. Intended parents from outside the United States are among the families it serves, alongside LGBTQ+ parents and single parents.

Women interested in carrying can apply through the agency's "Become a Surrogate" materials on its site; the screening criteria the agency publishes are summarized in the eligibility table further down this page, along with fee and compensation information on file. The agency lists an email address and a toll-free phone number as its points of contact.