Surrogacy

What is a Surrogate and Surrogate Mother?

Surrogacy is when another woman agrees to carry your baby for you. This can be either a single baby or twins at no extra cost. Embryos from the Intended Parents are implanted at an IVF Clinic in the surrogate mother. She then hopefully will get pregnant from the embryos and deliver a beautiful baby in nine months. Typically, surrogate mothers don’t carry more then two babies or twins. Intended Parents usually only opt for surrogacy and using a surrogate mother when they cannot have a baby on their own. The causes can be many including infertility, age of the Intended Mother, cancer and fibroids among others.

Surrogate Mothers are also used frequently by single men, single women and LGBT couples, wishing to have a child.

Surrogates are anonymous and are usually selected for you by the IVF Center. A typical surrogate is in great health, has had at least one baby of her own, and is screen psychologically to qualify as a donor.

How Does Surrogacy Work?

These are basically two types of Surrogacy:

Traditional surrogacy:

Under this option, the Intended Father either through artificial insemination or other means gets the female pregnant. The surrogate uses her own eggs. This way the newborn child is genetically related to both the Intended Father and the Surrogate Mother.

Gestational Surrogacy:

This can take four basic options: The embryo is created in an IVF Clinic using a combination of:

1. The Intended Fathers Sperm and the Intended Mothers egg. This typically happens when the mother’s eggs are good, but she cannot carry the baby for health or personal reasons.

2. We use the Intended Fathers Sperm and an egg donor. This is the most common form of surrogacy today and is used by virtually all LGBT, Single men and couples where the female has health or personal issues limiting her egg fertility and/or ability to carry the pregnancy.

3. The Intended Mother’s eggs are good, but she cannot carry the pregnancy due to health or personal reasons. Donor sperm is used to create the embryos. This is usually used for single women and lesbian couples seeking a baby to love and cherish.

4. Using donor embryos. This happens typically when both the male and female Intended Parents have issues limiting their ability to use their own sperm and eggs. We frequently have donor embryos available, left over from other couples that have had an IVF. Please contact us for details about availability and cost.

How to Be a Surrogate:

Two other terms you will come across as you do your research are

Altruistic Surrogacy, where the surrogate is not paid for carrying the baby beyond being reimbursed for her expenses. This is the law in many countries including Canada, the European Union Countries, and India among others.

Commercial Surrogacy, where the surrogate does get paid for carrying the baby in addition to being reimbursed for her expenses. This is the law in the USA and several Overseas countries. Our Agency specializes in aiding with Commercial Surrogacy. Get Surrogacy Costs in USA and Overseas.