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Becoming a Parent through Surrogacy

Surrogacy is a meaningful and beautiful family-building experience. While surrogacy can be a long, complex and emotional path to parenthood, the moment you hold your baby for the first time is so overwhelming and incredible, it’s hard to put into words.

Considerations Before You Begin Surrogacy

Intended parents who choose surrogacy as their path should prepare for an experience that requires openness and honesty – with your clinic and agency, with your future surrogate, and with your support person. We will promote a healthy and strong relationship with your gestational surrogate to help ensure as smooth a journey as possible by encouraging you to follow our MatchMade™ matching process. Whether you are just starting on the road to building your family, or you’re exploring surrogacy after infertility challenges, we’re committed to supporting you at each step, guiding you through any bumps in the road and sharing our combined 30+ years of expertise and passion until you have your baby in your arms.

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Your First Steps as Intended Parents

A surrogacy journey can seem a little daunting at first, and you may not know where to start. Through both our professional and personal experience with surrogacy as intended parents, we understand that taking that first step can be intimidating.

As you begin exploring surrogacy, we can simplify the early stages of the process for intended parents into three easy steps:

  1. Select a Surrogacy Agency
  2. Select a Clinic Partner
  3. Select an Egg Donor (If Needed)

Select a Surrogacy Agency

We recommend selecting an agency as the first step you take for a few reasons. First, the wait time to match with a surrogate may take time, and the minute you officially sign on with an agency, you will be added to the surrogate matching list. Once your spot is secured, you can continue working on the other steps in the process while you are waiting. With so many surrogacy agencies to choose from, it helps to have criteria by which you can measure if the agency will be the right fit for you. We’ve put together this article to guide you in what to look for in a surrogacy agency.

The second reason for selecting an agency as the first step is that having the support of an agency can help guide you from the beginning of your journey. A full-service agency like Promise will provide support and guidance in choosing a clinic (should you need our expertise) and an egg donor (if one is required).

Select a Clinic Partner

If you are coming to this journey having already selected a clinic, our team will be happy to coordinate with their care team. Promise has decades-long relationships with nearly 400 clinics in the United States – both large and small – to support our intended parents.

If you have not yet selected a clinic – or if you are looking to find a new clinic – our team can help facilitate that process with you. Once a clinic is selected, your Promise team will manage the relationship and liaise with the clinic for your journey.

Egg donor search (as necessary)

Should you need an egg donor to grow your family, our team is ready to provide guidance and support. Promise offers an in-house egg donor database of thoroughly screened fresh donors and maintains trusted partnerships with third-party agencies and clinics if you prefer a frozen donor or are seeking options beyond our donor pool.

Why Parents Choose Promise Surrogacy

Your surrogacy agency is an essential partner on your journey to parenthood. Choosing Promise gives you access to a full-service program with exclusive access to the top 4% of highly-screened surrogate applicants, dedicated interdisciplinary experts, and a long history of success.

Full-service Agency

We offer a small agency feel with the resources of a large agency, and the ability to work across medical, legal, financial and programmatic teams to offer you the most comprehensive support for a well-tended journey towards parenthood.

Most Experience, Highest Success

Our team of experts have accumulated the most experience in the surrogacy space, leading to a 99.1% success rate for those who had a baby in their first two transfers, or completed at least three transfers.

A Team That’s Been There, and is Ready to Help

44% of Promise's staff has personal experience as a gestational surrogate or egg donor, or as intended parents through surrogacy, IVF or adoption. Because of this, we bring deep dedication and knowledge to serving you on your journey.

Healthy RelationshipsWith Surrogates

Every surrogate that is ready to match has been fully vetted in our 3-step screening process. We’ve helped hundreds of parents build relationships with their surrogates who truly feel like family by the end of the process, and we genuinely believe fostering this relationship is the best way to bring a baby into the world.

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Intended Parents FAQs

Below are some common questions about becoming intended parents. You can read our full list of FAQs about the general surrogacy process from intended parents here.

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