Surrogacy and Gestational Care

If you’ve decided on surrogacy, your first steps are to coordinate your plans with your fertility clinic and recruit a surrogate. Your fertility clinic may have its own surrogacy program, or you may want to locate your own surrogate. Two common routes:

• Many people ask a sister, a close relative or friend — someone they know and trust. Often called a “known carrier”, this woman must be willing to undergo the medications and medical procedures necessary to prepare her to receive the embryos (generally fertilized via IVF), and then to carry the pregnancy to term.