• Is sperm for inseminations banked and protested, before it gets used, or are all the insemination conducted with the fresh sperm? There are surrogacy agencies, which have the requirements that the sperm should be banked and tested for about six months period, before it may be used for any insemination. It would be best for you to find the agency, where the sperm has been tested, so, that you can be sure, it is healthy in number and activity level, which will help you avoid the risk of doing months of inseminations with the sperm of poor quality. Sperm, which is tested, helps you avoid the risk of catching some diseases as well.
• What, if the pregnancy does not occur, and the time amount comes to its end? Will the intended parents have to pay for the new surrogate mother, or are they receive more time, in order to go on with the getting pregnant attempts?
• Can the intended parents and the surrogate mother get rematched without any additional costs from the intended parents side?
• Does the agency provide help to the intended parents in the process of the parental rights obtaining and after the delivery? You are to find out beforehand, what will be going on after the delivery and what kind of legal assistance you will be provided with, and who will help you.
• What is your fee policy? What does it include? You are to know what are you paying for, and in what way.
• What is the average cost for different surrogacy types: how much does the traditional surrogacy cost, and how much does the gestational surrogacy cost? You are to be aware, that the amount of money, printed in the ad may be quite different from the sum, you will really have to pay for the service, provided to you.
• If the intended parents should ever change their minds after they have signed up with the agency’s service, are their fees refundable?
• Is there any itemized monthly statement of expenses, provided for the intended parents? It would be a good idea, if everyone would know exactly what the intended parents are paying for.
• How does the surrogacy agency’s program handle all the expenses and / or compensation to the woman, who serves as a surrogate mother? Are there checks, which mailed every month? Is there any kind of a bulk sum, the surrogate mother is given after she delivered?
• What kind of extra expenses may possibly be involved in the surrogacy process?
• How binding is the agreement on the participants, who take part in the surrogacy journey? You are to know, that depending on the area, where the surrogacy arrangements take place, there are bindings, possible in the surrogacy contract, or the contract may be unenforceable completely.
• Is the agency interested in the communication preservation between the surrogate mother and the intended parents long after the delivery in the fashion, which was previously discussed? It is extremely important that the surrogacy agency would fulfill its promise to do its best to make sure that all letters, photos, and everything else, which had been previously agreed, are sent to the surrogate mother.
• It is important for you to understand, that every surrogacy agency is just the kind of business, like all the others, and do not forget, that all the answers, you receive from the agency’s workers, are given to you, in order to see your reaction upon them. The best way out for you from this situation is to communicate with people, who served as surrogate mothers or became intended parents with the help of the agency, you are planning to apply to. And you should in no way ask the surrogacy agency’s worker about any other surrogacy agencies, as the answers, you are going to receive will 100% be inaccurate. There are many professional surrogacy agencies, which began its business when one of the staff members from another agency left his business in order to start his own.
• Just like all other kinds of business, any surrogacy agency tends to do its best to keep its costs down in order to be competitive and maximize its profit. Most of such agencies manage to do it by maintaining an extremely small staff, and they rely only on the psychology, medicine, legal specialists from outside. It is considered to be neither good, not bad, because everything depends on the amount of surrogacy arrangements the surrogacy agency oversees. But do not forget, if the staff is too small for the amount of people, applying to them, and than the amount of surrogacies, they are overseeing at the same time; the chances for the mistake grow up. It may also happen so, that rushing to make everything completed as fast as possible, one of the arrangement professionals may neglect to properly obtain everything needed in order to make the contract legal before getting moved forward with the attempts of getting the surrogacy mother pregnant beginning. It is also common, that intended parents and surrogate mothers as well complain that the agencies, they were applying to are slow to give calls back and provide them with the assistance, after all the contracts get signed.
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