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Our process:
1. Finding carriers  /donors
2. First steps for parents
3. Getting introduced
4. Psychological screening
5. Medical screening
6. Signing a contract
7. Getting pregnant

Circle Surrogacy has strong relationships with top-rated medical and rel-ated professional affiliates. Our select circle of special-ized IVF clinics have all agreed to protocols and guidelines developed by Circle Surrogacy to suit the unique needs of our clients.

We only direct clients to clinics with superior medi-cal credentials, highest success rate records, and warm, flexible and accommodating attitude.

The Matching Process

What Is the Step by Step Process for Matching a Carrier or Egg Donor and Intendent Parent(s)?

1. How We Find Gestational Carriers and Egg Donors.

This is Jared and his Daddy Gene. Jared was born through our Program.

We place ads throughout the United States in newspapers, magazines, college papers and throughout the Internet for gestational carriers and egg donors. After reviewing our ad, the first step for a carrier or egg donor is to have a telephone conversation with Circle Surrogacy’s Surrogate Recruiter, Program Coordinator or Social Worker. One of them will ask the potential carrier or egg donor questions about her current living situation, marital status, children, family of origin, family medical history, current job and career goals, why she wants to be a surrogate, etc. This is also her opportunity to get information about how surrogacy or egg donation works.

If the carrier or egg donor wants to pursue surrogacy or egg donation, one of the above named persons will send her (or go over with her on the phone) a detailed questionnaire which she will fill out and return with a current photograph of herself and her children.

We then review the profile and determine if she is appropriate to continue in the process. To do this we generally conduct criminal and bankruptcy background checks, have her send in her medical records to a physician to check, and do an initial psychological screen.

2. The First Steps For Parent(s).

The first step for the interested parent(s) is to talk to Circle Surrogacy’s Program Coordinator or Executive Director about gestational surrogacy or egg donation, regarding their costs and risks. We work with just about anyone to help match them. We have assisted couples from as far away as Dubai and as close as Boston, Massachusetts. We work with gay and heterosexual couples, with single men and women. Our oldest inseminating father was 65 and our youngest was 28. We only ask that you agree to be screened yourself, that at least one of the biological parents be known, and that in all respects you are honest. If the intended parent(s) are interested in proceeding, they then will be sent a package of information, cost breakdowns, contracts with the agency and a draft contract with the carrier/egg donor and questionnaires. We generally request that the interested parents come in for a consultation, or if from abroad have a phone call consultation. Once interested parents decide to join the program, they fill out the questionnaire, they will also send in pictures of themselves, preferably with some friends’ or relatives’ kids, sign the agreement with the agency, and send in the initial deposit.

3. Getting Introduced.

If we believe a carrier or egg donor would be appropriate for a specific couple or single, we send her profile to the intended parent(s), removing all identifying information first. If the parent(s) think they might be interested, we then send the carrier or egg donor, a profile of them, similarly keeping out all identifying information. If both the carrier and the prospective parent(s) feel good about each other on paper, we put them in touch by telephone so that they can begin to get to know each other via the telephone. This is not always true with egg donors. Many couples prefer egg donors to be anonymous, and we are comfortable with that. Assuming the egg donor is also comfortable with that, the couple and egg donor would not meet, but we can communicate any questions between them.

With surrogacy, after talking on the phone, if all parties like each other, the next step would be for the carrier to meet the prospective parent(s). This meeting can happen at your mutual convenience, at the carrier’s home, the parents’ home, or some place in between. If the carrier has children and/or a partner or spouse, the intended parents should meet them as well.

4. Screening the Carrier or Egg Donor Psychologically. 

John's boys, both carried by his surrogate Susan.

If all proceeds well in the meeting, the couple then decides whether to proceed to have the carrier or egg donor psychologically and medically screened by the fertility center. At this screening they will discuss her reasons for wanting to be an egg donor or carrier, all of the procedures involved, including drugs and monitoring, and her comfort with the intended relationship with the intended parent(s).

We will also want to get to know the carrier and/or egg donor and answer her questions about contractual obligations, financial arrangements, insurance coverage, etc. We will also put the carrier and/or egg donor in touch with an attorney who can represent her, so that she can make sure she understands the process and responsibilities.

5. Screening the Carrier and the Couple Medically.

The carrier/donor and her partner, if she has one, and the intended parents are required to have certain medical tests done in order to make sure that no diseases will be conveyed to the carrier or the baby. The tests, to the degree that they are not covered by insurance, are covered by the intended parents. Some fertility centers will present the carrier, donor and intended parents to have this done with their own provider, as some of it may be covered by insurance that way.

Some IVF Clinics require that the carrier, the couple and the social worker would meet to discuss the the IVF procedure, the logistics, and each person’s responsibility to the others. This would obviously not happen with anonymous egg donors, but there would still be conferences between the physician/nurse and the egg donor to go over her responsibilities. The carrier or egg donor will be encouraged to ask any questions that she has, as will the parents, to discuss fears and concerns, plan when and how to begin the IVF process and clarify everyone’s expectations of relationships during the months of preparation for in vitro fertilizations.

6. Finalizing the Process.

Final preparations are:

* to turn in all lab and medical forms

* finalize and sign contracts

* make sure health and life insurance is arranged and

* make sure IVF arrangements are understood by all parties.

Most contracts between parents and carriers retain, among other things, provisions for:

* amniocentesis

* paternity testing

* a period of lost wages or babysitting/housekeeping if the obstetrician orders bed rest

* money for maternity clothes

* $100,000 life insurance for a surrogate's family

* wills for the intended parents establishing guardianship for the child.

* extra payment if a woman is carrying multiples.

7. Getting Pregnant.

Marjorie enjoying, with baby Sophie, the beautiful reward of our program.

Trying to get pregnant has its own set of unique challenges. We suggest you commit to 3 IVF attempts and we will stick by you to provide you with lots of information about medical and fertility center providers, assisted reproductive technology specialists, etc.