Intended Parents FAQs

Do you want to become a parent though surrogacy with Trusted Surrogacy Center but still have some questions? Our intended parents FAQ covers different queries related to the intended parent experience, from surrogacy overall cost, how to make payments, to screening questions and what specific surrogacy services we provide. Enhance your understanding of surrogacy by reading these frequently asked questions that intended parents will commonly have before you start your surrogacy journey.

  • As a full-service agency we will work with you during the entire surrogacy process. Our services start with a rigorous selection, interview and screening of surrogates to ensure you will have only the most responsible and committed surrogates. Once you have selected a surrogate to work with, we will provide emotional support, group chats and coordination of the entire surrogacy process by contacting and working with the various legal, psychological, medical and other professionals involved in surrogacy and finally providing post birth support.

  • Including the surrogate compensation medical, legal, insurance and agency retainer fees. You can expect to pay between $130,000 to $180,000 total.

  • All of our potential surrogates are required to undergo extensive background checks, psychological and medical tests to determine suitability for surrogacy.

  • We take great pride in helping intended parents from other countries become parents. If you're from another country we will assist you with getting all the necessary documents and paperwork that will allow you to take your child back to your country.

  • At our agency we only offer gestational surrogacy, this means that ​the intended parent's embryo will be fertilized at a fertility clinic and will be eventually transferred to a surrogate's uterus.

  • If the surrogate is found to be unsuitable for pregnancy after the screening process. We will help you select another surrogate for no additional fees.

  • Absolutely, we work with intended parents of any background.

  • Most of the time it will take between 12 and 14 months to complete the surrogacy process.

  • Intended parents will be able to review various surrogate profiles and select which ones they like the most. We will then send your profile to the surrogate you selected. If there is mutual interest, we will introduce you to the surrogate.If the intended parents and surrogate agree to work together then the surrogacy process will begin.

  • All the fees that will be used to pay for the surrogate mother's expenses will be held in a trust fund account managed by a lawyer or a bonded and licensed escrow company. Any unused funds in the trust account will be refunded to intended parents once the surrogacy process is complete.

  • Yes at our agency we do accept dual embryo transfers, however we do highly encourage intended parents to review all the risks of a potential twin pregnancy before proceeding.

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