Surrogacy and IVF
Your journey begins with knowledge:Fertility Facts Number of women who experience infertility- 7.3 million or 12 % of all women of reproductive age read more
Do I need Surrogate? In general, when the couple ( or single parent) decide to use gestational carrier and donor's egg, the success rate is highest possible read more
Do I need Egg Donor? It is pretty common that couples and individuals begin looking into Assisted Reproduction when they went through a number of failed IVF cycles. read more
Surrogacy Success Rate In some cases a women has trouble to conceive via IVF due to unknown implantation problems.read more
Ovarian Reserve Female age is very important in consideration of probability for conception because it is very much related to egg quality. read more
IVF in Photos View the entire IVF process read more
IVF Success Rate IVF success rate depends on age. Currently, for women under 35, IVF success rate is about 41%. read more
Welcome to Surrogacy Agency NY Offices in New York and in Philadelphia
Our
surrogacy
agency will
find a surrogate for you from
around
the
country. We match the Intended Parents with Surrogates from
the
states where surrogacy
is legal and Pre-Birth Orders are issued.
We offer services in two locations: in New York City
and in Philadelphia. We conduct free over the phone
consultations for the Intended Parents. We work with married
couples, gay couples, and single intended parents from the
United States and Internationally. Review French,
Spanish, Italian, and German versions of our site.
Call us at
1-718-702-8852,
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How we find Gestational Carriers and Egg Donors?
We place ads throughout the United States in newspapers, magazines, college papers and throughout the Internet for gestational carriers and egg donors. After reviewing our ad, the first step for a carrier or egg donor is to have a telephone conversation with our Program Coordinator or Social Worker. One of them will ask the potential carrier or egg donor questions about her current living situation, marital status, children, family of origin, family medical history, current job and career goals, why she wants to be a surrogate, etc. This is also her opportunity to get information about how surrogacy or egg donation works.
If the carrier or egg donor wants to pursue surrogacy or egg donation, one of the above named persons will send her (or go over with her on the phone) a detailed questionnaire which she will fill out and return with a current photograph of herself and her children.
We then review the profile and determine if she is appropriate to continue in the process. To do this we generally conduct criminal and bankruptcy background checks, have her send in her medical records to a physician to check, and do an initial psychological screen.
The First Step for Parent (s ):
The first step for the interested parent(s) is to talk to our Program Coordinator or Programs Director about gestational surrogacy or egg donation, regarding their costs and risks. We work with just about anyone to help match them. We work with couples and with single intended parents, men and women. Our oldest intended inseminating father was 65 and our youngest was 28. We work with international Intended Parents, both couples and singles. If the intended parent(s) are interested in proceeding, they then will be sent a package of information, cost breakdowns, contracts with the agency and a draft contract with the carrier/egg donor and questionnaires. We generally request that the interested parents come in for a consultation or have a phone consultation. Once interested parents decide to join the program, they fill out the questionnaire, they will also send in pictures of themselves, preferably with some friends’ or relatives’ kids, sign the agreement with the agency, and send in the initial deposit.
Matching Process
If we believe a carrier or egg donor would be appropriate for a specific couple or single, we send her profile to the intended parent(s), removing all identifying information first. If the parent(s) think they might be interested, we then send the carrier or egg donor, a profile of them, similarly keeping out all identifying information. If both the carrier and the prospective parent(s) feel good about each other on paper, we put them in touch by telephone so that they can begin to get to know each other via the telephone. This is not always true with egg donors. Many couples prefer egg donors to be anonymous, and we are comfortable with that. Assuming the egg donor is also comfortable with that, the couple and egg donor would not meet, but we can communicate any questions between them.
With surrogacy, after talking on the phone, if all parties like each other, the next step would be for the carrier to meet the prospective parent(s). This meeting can happen at your mutual convenience, at the carrier’s home, the parents’ home, or some place in between, for example, caffee. If the carrier has children and/or a partner or spouse, the intended parents should meet them as well.
Finalizing your decision:
If all proceeds well in the meeting, the couple then decides whether to proceed to have the carrier or egg donor psychologically and medically screened by the fertility center. At this screening they will discuss her reasons for wanting to be an egg donor or carrier, all of the procedures involved, including drugs and monitoring, and her comfort with the intended relationship with the intended parent(s).
We will also want to get to know the carrier and/or egg donor and answer her questions about contractual obligations, financial arrangements, insurance coverage, etc.
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