with surrogacy agencies and can help you find a surrogate through an agency. You can also ask a friend or family member to be a surrogate. Sometimes a family member will volunteer to do this for compassionate reasons but it can become a little bit tricky legally and emotionally in the end.
5. You can heavily screen your potential surrogate.
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine recommends that a surrogate have a medical exam to make sure she’s healthy and be screened for STIs and other infectious diseases. They recommend that she also be tested for immunity to measles, chicken pox, and rubella (German measles).
You can make sure they have passed a psychological screening by a mental health professional to help make sure she won’t have issues with giving up the baby after birth. You can have her sign a legal contract about her responsibilities during the pregnancy, and that she agrees to give up the baby after it is born.
6. It’s not cheap.
Costs generally run from $80,000 to $140,000 and upward, including the surrogacy agency’s fee, the surrogate’s fee (if permitted in your state), the cost of insurance and other expenses for the pregnancy and delivery, the cost of IVF