Short guide for surrogacy

The first step is to find a surrogacy agency.

Then it is necessary to conclude a service contract with the agency, where all issues will be spelled out.

The agency will provide you access to a partner IVF clinic for your assisted reproductive technologies needs.

The agency will search and prepare an egg donor and surrogate mother for you.

You will conclude a direct agreement on carrying your child with your gestational surrogate.

Next, the process of obtaining an egg from the intended mother or donor, and obtaining sperm from the intended father or donor will begin, followed by creation of embryos using in vitro fertilization (IVF), preimplantation genetic screening (PGS), and freezing embryos before embryo transfer while waiting for PGS results, which usually takes around 2 weeks.

Frozen embryo transfer to the womb of a surrogate mother takes place.

In 2 weeks human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) blood pregnancy test is made for the urrogate.

If the HCG test is positive, surrogate is pregnant, and pregnancy goes on as usual, with only difference that gestational surrogate must take pregnancy supporting medications during the first trimester so that her body doesn’t reject the fetus, because child has different genetics than the carrying mother.

After birth the intended parents receive full custody of the child and are considered the sole legal parents.

In some countries this happens automatically by receiving a birth certificate with both parents registered immediately after birth, some countries require court procedures for the same.

Times for the overall surrogacy process vary due to hundreds of natural and legal peculiarities involved.