 There is a great variety of the surrogacy arrangers. Some couples decide to hire outside professionals. Usually such professional team consists of experienced intended parents or surrogates, human right and psychology experts. A third party arranger's staff can include attorneys specializing in adoption, surrogacy law, egg donation and family law. Very often these third party surrogacy arrangers are fertility clinics, which, by the way, provide all the needed medical treatment. The whole third party surrogacy arrangement can be concentrated in a large surrogacy agency office or it can be a small unit run by interested people and each of them can be better than the other one. These units are all completely different and there are also those specializing in one aspect of surrogacy, for example, looking for sperm/egg donors or surrogate mothers, legal surrogacy advice, adoption. The only common thing they have is helping people have children.
The advantage of using such external help is that their rich experience will accompany you through your surrogacy, moreover they will offer support during this scary process. These arrangers can provide a lot of services helping the surrogate mothers and the intended parents:
- Helping the parties decide if surrogacy is right for them by explaining the all the risks and pitfalls that surrogacy implies;
-Finding, determining and recommending candidates for both types of surrogacy;
- Surrogate applicants psychological screening, testing and assessment of the intended parents and egg donors;
-Consulting and dealing with each individual situation for the surrogates and intended parents;
-Recommending a psychoanalyst for surrogate mother's preliminary screening and making an appointment;
- Surrogate’s medical examination
-Finding matches for the surrogates and the intended parents;
-Arranging communication between intended parents and surrogates;
-Confirming health insurance coverage of the surrogate mother; if she doesn’t have it or her policy particularly excludes surrogacy, arranging an independent coverage;
-Helping the surrogate mother to obtain life insurance;
-Organizing surrogate mother’s insemination;
-Assisting embryo transfer or artificial fertilization process;
-Accompanying the surrogate to appointments with the doctor;
-Helping obtain medicines;
-Defining laws of state and necessary legal procedures;
-Dealing with surrogate’s expenses coverage and compensation;
-Assistance in legal consultation to instruct, compose and discuss contracts and determine the duties and rights of all sides;
-Supervising arrangement and elaboration of documents;
-Facilitate support groups for intended parents and surrogate mothers;
-Conducting instructions for all participants;
-Arranging an Internet surrogacy support list for the clients;
-Assisting in organizing transportation and obtaining accommodation for intended parents and surrogate mothers;
-24 hour availability to clients;
-Assisting in translation;
-Supplying surrogate mother and intended parents everything they need during or after the delivery.
Start looking for a professional surrogacy arrangement agency in the phone book, but the chances to find there a great variety are low. The best source of necessary information is Internet.
The acceptance and declination of clients is based on personal criteria they have established for themselves. There are some units that work only with people within a definite country or state or with married couples and there are some that only deal with the gay and lesbian individuals. Some arrangement agencies have strict set of rules they oblige their clients to follow.
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