Become a Surrogate and Help Others
Being a surrogate is a remarkable experience for everyone involved — the intended parents and you and your family. Gestational surrogacy means giving someone else the remarkable gift of bringing a child into the world.
What is a Surrogate?
A surrogate – also called a gestational carrier or gestational surrogate – is a woman who carries a baby for people (the Intended Parents) who are unable to have a baby on their own.
Most surrogates are gestational surrogates, meaning the surrogate does not use her own eggs and doesn’t share any genetics with the baby.
Family Connect only works with gestational carriers
Women who do not share biology with the baby they are carrying.
Surrogates get paid for carrying someone’s baby, and they are protected by a legal contract signed by both the surrogate and the Intended Parents.
But most importantly, a surrogate is a giver of hope and happiness to those looking to be parents!
Surrogates are women who have children of their own, have had relatively easy pregnancies and births (they like being pregnant!), and many have completed their own families. Surrogates want to help others have their own families.
What is surrogacy? It’s an amazing way to help make intended parents’ dreams come true and give others the ultimate gift: a baby!
4 Things to Know About Being A Surrogate
There is so much information out there about becoming a surrogate, but our highly-specialized, collaborative team is the most qualified to offer authentic, accurate information for a successful and rewarding surrogacy journey.
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Gestational surrogates have no biological connection to the baby they carry. Their DNA (eggs) is NOT used to create the embryos.
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Surrogates are paid throughout the entirety of their journey, and compensation starts even before they become pregnant.
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Surrogates DO need to give themselves injections as part of the IVF process. Most surrogates say these needles are no big deal!
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Surrogates do not feel "attached" to the babies they carry and look forward to the moment when the intended parents get to hold their baby for the first time.