Top 10 Reasons for Using an Agency
You may be wondering if working with an agency is right for you if your family building journey is through gestational surrogacy. While you can navigate this alone, I have compiled a list of top 10 reasons you should consider an agency for your surrogacy journey.
1. Knowledge and experience
Instead of learning as you go, let us guide you with years of professional experience. We are able to give you valuable information for your journey; timeline, costs, potential issues down the road, and answer all your questions before you jump into surrogacy.
2. Connections
Let us help you find a clinic, lawyer and your surrogate to give you the best outcome for a healthy pregnancy.
3. Medical and psychological screening
The last thing you want is to build a relationship with a potential surrogate and have a medical or psychological reason she cannot be your surrogate. Using our agency, you will never be introduced to a surrogate candidate until she has been medically and psychologically screened and approved. With a low passing rate to begin with, save yourself a difficult process to finding your gestational surrogate.
4. Money management
This process costs a lot of money, we know the expense and bills can add up quickly, so when we help you manage your budget and help you navigate the costs.
5. Advocate for you!
You could potentially have an issue with your case worker at the clinic or you feel that your meeting with your doctor didn’t go well. Emails not being returned? Have you thought about if you and your surrogate have a conflict? We will manage and oversee your journey to make sure that your voice is heard.
6. Relationship management; go-between.
What happens if you and your surrogate need to have one of the many possible hard conversations? Have an issue with how much coffee your surrogate is drinking, but don’t know how to ask her to drink less? Don’t understand a request for a bill to be paid, but its only $100 bucks, so is that worth bring us? You want to go to the OB appointments, but she hasn’t asked you to come? Let us ask the tough questions and make sure that the relationship between you and your surrogate remains on good terms. Remember this can be a 12-18 month process.
7. Legal contracts
This is so important! Legal contracts and laws vary from state to state. An attorney will draft an enforceable surrogacy contract that will address the important issues that could arise at all stages of the journey. What happens before, during and after the baby is born all need to be covered in the surrogacy contract.
8. Professional Support 24/7
This is a very emotional rollercoaster for both you and your gestational surrogate. Let us be an outlet for all of your questions and thoughts that you need to run by a professional. Afterall this is what we do!
9. Marketing for surrogates so you have the best candidates
Like I mentioned before, the screening process disqualifies a lot of applicants from being able to carry a surrogacy pregnancy. We want your journey to be the most optimal for the best outcome, a healthy baby and delivery. With a 6% passing rate, save yourself the headache of searching for a surrogate candidate. Even when someone offers to be your gestational surrogate, many conditions may disqualify her. Some include preterm labor, placenta previa, miscarriage, and other medical intervention, and psychological health problems.
10.Peace of mind- Enjoy the journey
There are a lot of hours that are put into a surrogacy journey and a lot of questions will arise. While we cannot take away all of the stress, we will minimize the workload for your journey a lot, noticeably so! We are here to support you and your surrogate to ensure you have the best possible outcome. There is no cost to talk to us about what a journey will most likely look like using our agency, so never hesitate to stop by and meet us! We are a phone call and email away.