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 (it is often referred to as a “journey”), 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 each other (if you have a partner). We will encourage 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.
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.
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.
Why Parents Choose Family Connect Surrogacy
Your surrogacy agency is an essential partner on your journey to parenthood. Choosing Family Connect gives you access to a full-service program with highly-screened surrogates, 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.
The Highest Success
Our team of experts have accumulated the most experience in the surrogacy space, leading to the highest success rate in the industry: 99.4% for those who had a baby from their first two transfers, or completed at least 3 transfers.
The Most Experienced
44% of Family Connect'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.
Relationships & 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.