What Is Gestational Surrogacy?
A highly successful fertility service, gestational surrogacy entails placing your IVF-created embryo(s) into the uterus of a trusted surrogate who will carry the pregnancy and deliver your baby.
Surrogacy
The Best Candidates for Surrogacy
- Same-sex male couples and single males
- Women who cannot carry a pregnancy to term
- Women for whom pregnancy would be dangerous
- Couples that need or want a woman to facilitate the fertilization, pregnancy and delivery of a baby
4 steps to the surrogacy basic process
At BabiesSprouts, we understand that surrogacy can be a big decision. To provide you reassurance and guidance during the process, we follow strict guidelines to offer an ethical and positive surrogacy experience for all parties involved.
01
Payment plans
Upfront surrogacy costs and predetermined payment plans Strict surrogate screenings to verify the candidate is physically and mentally fit to be a surrogate
02
Choose surrogate mother
Strict surrogate screenings to verify the candidate is physically and mentally fit to be a surrogate
03
Sign Contract
A legal contract to ensure all parties are in agreement and protected
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Create the embryo
Create the embryo needed for your surrogate’s embryo transfer
Finding Your Surrogate
Selecting a surrogate you trust is essential.
- Surrogates below 38 years of age are optimal for a healthy pregnancy and complication-free delivery.
- The surrogate must be free of illness that could put themselves at risk and complicate the pregnancy.
- A clean OB history, with at least one healthy birth. There are additional requirements, such as fewer than four cesarean sections.
- Although weight can vary and is not the most important surrogacy factor, a BMI below 30 is recommended to lower chances of complications.
Frequently asked questions
Surrogacy is an agreement in which a woman chooses to become pregnant through an embryo transfer and carry the resulting pregnancy for intended parents.
People who have struggled with infertility
Prospective single parents
Same-sex couples
Anyone who is unable to safely carry a pregnancy to term
This is a question with an always-evolving answer. Essentially, it depends on where you’re at. In the United States, surrogacy laws vary from one state to the next, from one type of surrogacy to another, and more. We have a guide to those state laws here. Don’t let the laws intimidate you, but do remember:
Surrogacy law is complex, and the safety of a child could be at stake. That’s why it’s absolutely necessary to work with an experienced professional to secure a legal surrogacy contract that protects both parties — no exceptions.
In gestational surrogacy, no.
The baby is biologically related to the two people who contribute the egg and sperm when the embryo is created, not whose uterus the baby is carried in.
That means that if intended parents need the help of egg and/or sperm donors to create an embryo, the baby will be biologically related to the donor(s). If the egg and/or sperm come from the intended parents, then the baby is biologically related to them.
Again, when it comes to genetics, what matters is the egg and sperm — the uterus doesn’t have anything to do with it.
An embryo will be created in a fertility clinic lab using IVF and will later be transferred to the surrogate’s uterus by a fertility clinic doctor.
For the surrogate, this experience of becoming pregnant will be entirely different from her previous pregnancies in a number of ways. She’ll take a carefully timed series of medications to prepare for that embryo transfer, be monitored more closely than she would with a “traditional” pregnancy, and more.
In general, there’s more regulation and doctors involved in the process than people imagine.