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Our Role as Your Surrogacy Agency

Your Surrogacy Advocate

As our name suggests, Advocates for Surrogacy is your advocate for the entire process beginning to end.  Advocating for our clients throughout this process is our passion.

Our initial consultation period is designed to help you to express your needs, your concerns, understand the process, and understand our role as your surrogacy agency.  We empower you through sharing our knowledge and expertise.

Your Project Manager

A surrogacy arrangement has many moving parts.  There is the fertility clinic.  There is the surrogate matching process.  There is the screening process.  There is the legal process. There is the insurance process.  There is the medical process.  There is the facilitation during pregnancy.  There is the financial management aspect.  You need an experienced project manager who can keep the train on the rails.

Your General Counsel

Navigating the legal waters of surrogacy is an essential ingredient of the success of this process. The state where your surrogate delivers will determine when and how your parental rights will be secured. Each state has different laws (or lack of laws) and procedures regarding surrogacy. Some states prohibit surrogacy. You will work directly with our director, an attorney, who will expertly guide you through deciding which states are best for you.

If you are gay or live overseas, there are  particular considerations that are important to this process and having an advocate with the experience and legal background is essential. Our President is an attorney and a member of the American Bar Association Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology.  She understand how to navigate these waters.

As your surrogacy agency, we assist you in assembling the legal team. Our President, Candace O’Brien, oversees the legal process and advises you about the the legal requirements of the particular state where your surrogate will deliver. This begins during the matching process and continues through the execution of your agreement with a surrogate. You will not find yourself matched with a surrogate and trying to find lawyers and navigate through the legal process on your own.

Your Surrogacy Risk Manager

Risk management is essential.  Insurance is perhaps the single most important element of risk management in your surrogacy journey.  We will explain to you the various options that are available.  We ensure that proper insurance is in place before beginning the medical process. We work with the the industry’s leading insurance experts in evaluating all options.  Fertility clinics often have various cost packages, guarantee and refund programs which offer clients more predictable medical costs and Advocates for Surrogacy will assist you and guide you in evaluating these options.

Your Surrogacy Match Maker

Matching with the right surrogate is crucial to a successful journey.  Surrogate candidates are screened initially through interviews with our director and completion of extensive intake forms and questionnaires.  Generally, these initial interviews and intake sessions can take a total of four – five hours.   Surrogate candidates are also assessed by licensed psychologists. We conduct background checks on surrogate candidates. Making the right match is critical! And yet, it is just the beginning.

Your Guide in Choosing Your Fertility Clinic

If you do not have a preferred fertility clinic, then as your surrogacy agency, we assist you in identifying and comparing various fertility clinic programs including guarantee programs, refund programs, financial assistance programs so that you are also matched with a clinic that meets your needs.

You need an Egg Donor?

As your surrogacy agency, we will guide you through the many options that are available for egg donors and eggs.  We will discuss the various options you have including frozen egg banks, fertility clinic egg donor programs, egg donor agencies, and embryo donation.  We will guide you, advocate for you, coordinate with the egg donor agency, clinics, attorneys.

Your Surrogacy Case Manager

As your surrogacy agency, we continually facilitate the process throughout the pregnancy. Ongoing case management is designed to address the day to day issues, ensure compliance by your surrogate and/or egg donor, and intervention by legal or mental health staff as needed.

Should there be a need for professional counseling support by a mental health professional during the process for you or your surrogate, we will arrange the support and will ensure that you are working with top notch professionals with particular expertise in the particular issues involved.

Offering a Comprehensive Package of Surrogacy Services

As your surrogacy agency, our goal is to provide a comprehensive package of services that includes matching and screening surrogates, expert legal consultation, oversight, and risk management to make your surrogacy journey as positive and stress-free as possible. You can approach this incredible journey with confidence knowing that you have a dedicated team of professionals assembled by a pro all dedicated to supporting and advising you through your entire journey to parenthood and beyond.

Our team is dedicated to helping you achieve your dream of becoming a parent – whether you are gay, straight, married or single, living in the United States or abroad.

If you are interested in learning more about becoming parents through surrogacy, we encourage you to contact us directly for a free consultation with our President and Founder, Candace O’Brien. We are here to help you explore this exciting option!

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International Surrogacy? Penny Wise, Pound Foolish?

Intended Parents who seek surrogacy programs in foreign countries outside the United States to save costs face particular risks as presented in this article.  Ukraine was a popular foreign destination for surrogacy. When the war started in Ukraine, the country of Georgia was hosting an ever-growing surrogacy program for foreigners. Now, there are bills being   …Continue Reading

What People Are Saying

  • “Here’s the thing, I thought we could save money by handling the surrogacy ourselves, but the truth is that we tried and we lost time and almost got ourselves into a mess. Our fertility clinic recommended we try an agency and gave us a few recommendations. Advocates for Surrogacy was on the list. We called, we never looked back. Candace and the team were amazing from the time we began matching with a surrogate which was a totally different experience from when we were trying to do that ourselves to handling the contract, to the medical process all the way to the delivery of our beautiful daughter.”

    — B and Z

  • “Candace is great. We must have met with her 3 or 4 times and she was always patient and provided all the answers we needed and when we finally signed up we felt comfortable and at ease. We had called several other agencies before finding Advocates for Surrogacy and the experience was very different. We received information and had a chance to speak with the director but it was obvious that we were expected to make a decision based on information and one meeting. We just didn’t think that was enough for the emotional and financial commitment that surrogacy requires.”

    — Sheila T.

  • “Our surrogacy journey was not easy. We had some false starts with surrogates and then our surrogate had 2 miscarriages but through it all Candace was there to help us get through the rough patches and helped us to stay the course. Candace would always check in with me regularly after the miscarriages and I really appreciated that. Our surrogate also had the same experience with Candace continually checking in with her. All I can say is that surrogacy can have some bumps but having Candace beside us made all the difference. We never lost our faith and confidence and in the end our dreams of having a child came true times two!”

    — M&M

  • “I’ve had 4 surrogate journeys. Candace is great to work with. She is caring and understanding. I had a wonderful experience with Advocates for Surrogacy and would go through them anytime. Thanks Candace for another unforgettable journey.”

    — P.D.

  • “Advocates for Surrogacy was our lifesaver. My cousin agreed to be our surrogate but we did not have the finances for IVF after several failed attempts on our own. I started to look at international programs and stumbled upon Advocates for Surrogacy’s Guatemala IVF Program. It was our answer. Even with the travel costs, it was a major savings. The doctors at the clinic were great and really took time to explain everything. Candace’s team in Guatemala were great. We were picked up at the airport, taken to the clinic and never felt we were on our own.”

    — Tara K.

  • “I just completed my 5th surrogacy journey and my first with Advocates for Surrogacy. I was with another agency for 1st and 3rd journeys and did 2nd and 4th independently. My 1st and 3rd were so so and not much support from agency. 2nd independent was good but I had some problems with bills getting paid on time. My 2nd independent journey was a total mess so I definitely don’t recommend going independent even with experience. I can honestly say that working with Candace was great. She went to bat for me when I needed it and was always there.”

    — C.T.