The following paragraphs describe the typical surrogacy journey and how we work with you throughout the surrogacy.

Intended Parents:  We typically meet with you in our office to learn more about your personal history, answer questions and learn more about what you are looking for in a surrogate.  Once you decide to work with us, we have you complete a questionnaire that provides additional information.

Gestational Surrogate:  Our first step is to get to know you and learn about your wishes in Intended Parents.  To become a gestational surrogate, we do an initial screening which includes a questionnaire, phone interviews with our social worker.  Later, we administer a psychological screening test (required by most IVF clinics), criminal background check for you and your
husband/partner if you have one.

Matching: Once the initial Gestational Surrogate screening is completed, we provide the completed questionnaire and phone interview write-up to Intended Parents.  If they want to move forward, we provide the Intended Parents' completed questionnaire to the Gestational Surrogate.  If the potential surrogate wants to take the next step, , we put you in touch with each other by phone.  Ideally, you talk on the phone several times and then meet in person.

Preparation:  Once the match is complete, we guide you through working with the selected IVF clinic for your medical screening, lawyers to create a legal agreement and an insurance specialist to help put proper insurance in place for the pregnancy.

Transfer and pregnancy:  The transfer occurs and once pregnancy is confirmed we stay in touch with everyone to make sure that the surrogate is well cared for and the intended parents get the support they need.  A to Z provides the escrow services to make payments as outlined in your gestational carrier agreement so that you can focus on pregnancy related matters.  There are also monthly group phone calls available for all surrogates and a social worker which allows surrogates to share questions and concerns, and discuss the effect that surrogacy has had on their lives.