The surrogacy process in Iowa is built to help intended parents have the family they’ve been dreaming of and help surrogates find a purpose with quality compensation. For anyone looking into the gestational surrogacy process in Iowa, we want you to feel confident as you move forward.
If you’re ready to begin the process, contact a surrogacy specialist today.
Step 1: Decide if Surrogacy is Right for You
Intended Parents: Many intended parents who are looking into the surrogacy process in Iowa have been through a number of other routes to becoming parents. We want you to feel comfortable and knowledgeable about the journey you’re about to go through. Whether you’re struggling with infertility, are a member of the LGBTQ+ community or are looking to achieve becoming a parent on your own, we have a team of surrogacy specialists who are ready to help you understand the process, the costs involved and more.
Surrogate: When you decide to become a surrogate, it can be a life-changing decision for not just the intended parents you are helping, but for you as well. The gestational surrogate process in Iowa is a long road, though, full of physical and emotional loads to navigate through. While we have many surrogacy specialists ready to help you, it’s important to make sure surrogacy is right for you during this time in your life.
Step 2: Find a Match
Intended Parents: Finding your perfect surrogate to help you become parents is an exciting part of the journey. You will work with your surrogacy specialist to create a profile that will be advertised to surrogates looking to work with parents in the Iowa surrogacy process. You can include photos, videos and more in your profile to let surrogates know as much about your family as you’d like.
Surrogates: You will work with your surrogacy specialist to help find intended parents who you will work with through this journey. It’s important to us to find your ideal match, so we help you create a profile that includes preferences including race, religion, age, sexual orientation, personality and more. Your surrogacy specialist will then help facilitate the matching process.
Step 3: Satisfy Legal Requirements
Intended Parents: The next surrogacy step in Iowa is the legal process. You will need to work with a surrogacy attorney who will create a surrogacy contract. This will outline risks and responsibilities for the surrogacy process to help everyone move forward confidently. In addition to the surrogacy contract, you will also need to file a parentage order. Your surrogacy attorney will assist you in this process to become legally recognized as your child’s parents.
Surrogate: You will need to work with a surrogacy attorney to help you through Iowa’s surrogacy process. Your attorney will represent you when the surrogacy contract is drawn up. The contract will outline who is responsible for different parts of the surrogacy process as well as outline the risks involved in surrogacy and pregnancy.
Step 4: TheEmbryo Transfer
Intended Parents: You will decide if you want to use your egg/sperm or a donor’s. You will make this decision when you create your surrogacy plan with your surrogacy specialist. If you are choosing to use your egg, you will need to go through the IVF process. If you have already done this previously and have eggs left from that process, you may use those. Using your own, a donor’s, or a combination, the egg and sperm will be used to create an embryo by your fertility clinic. This will then be transferred to your surrogate.
Surrogates: To prepare for the embryo transfer you will likely meet with the intended parents’ fertility clinic to begin the medical process. You will need to start fertility medication along with labs and other testing. For the Iowa surrogacy process to continue, they will determine the best time for the embryo transfer based on your cycle and ovulation periods. The embryo will be transferred to you through a non-invasive procedure done at the fertility clinic. You will then need to rest with minimal activity over the next few days.
Step 5: Welcome Baby to the World
Intended Parents: Everything in the Iowa surrogacy process leads up to this. This is the moment you’ve been waiting for, the moment when you become parents. This is a beautiful and life-changing event. Depending on your agreement with your surrogate, you may get to be in the room when your baby is born. Once your surrogate is discharged you’ll finally get to go home to begin this next chapter of your life.
Surrogate: After everything, you are finally able to give the intended parents their child. You can have as much or little involvement in the celebrations as you like. You may even have the parents in the delivery room with you, letting them be involved in the birth of their child. Once you have been cleared by your doctor, you will be able to leave the hospital with a forever bond with this family.
Don’t wait to get started on your surrogacy journey. Contact us today to get started on the surrogacy process in Iowa.