The Top 7 Reasons to Choose Gestational Surrogacy as a Surrogate in 2021
For intended parents wishing to grow their family, gestational surrogacy is an incredible opportunity and gift. But what motivates women to become surrogates? What is it about gestational surrogacy that draws them in?
Adoption and Surrogacy Choices of Colorado wants to provide prospective surrogates with all of the information they need to make this important decision. If you are a woman who is interested in becoming a gestational surrogate, here are the top reasons to choose gestational surrogacy as a surrogate in Colorado.
1. Surrogates Help Give the Gift of Life to Intended Parents
First and foremost, the women who become surrogate mothers are incredibly thoughtful and altruistic. Surrogates are raising their own children and understand the importance of family. They devote their energies to helping another family grow. Many women seek to become a surrogate mother because they feel a calling to help other families with fertility difficulties, and want the couple or individual to experience the love and fulfillment of building a family.
2. Surrogates Enjoy Experiencing Pregnancy
Surrogate mothers are known to have easy and uncomplicated pregnancies. Some surrogates feel they were meant to be pregnant and enjoy the experience of growing a baby. Gestational surrogacy gives them the added joy of sharing in the experience with the intended parents. That sense of accomplishment is truly unique to surrogacy.
3. Surrogates get to Carry a Baby Genetically Related to the Intended Parents
Gestational surrogacy offers intended parents the chance to be genetically related to their baby. Through IVF treatments, the embryo is created by combining genetic material from the intended parents and donors if needed. The embryo is then transferred to the surrogate’s womb, where he or she will grow and develop.
The fact that the surrogate is not biologically related to the baby lessens the risk of undue attachment and makes it easier for the surrogate to give the baby to their intended parents after birth without emotional trouble. We recommend pre-surrogacy counseling for women who are close to the family before deciding to be their surrogate. Therapy can help with understanding and processing emotional or mental troubles related to the surrogacy process.
4. Surrogates can Form Lifelong Relationships with Intended Parents
When our surrogacy agency matches you with intended parents or individuals, we pay attention to expectations for communication. We pair intended parents and surrogates with similar expectations about contact throughout the process and wishes for contact after the baby is born. Surrogates share regular updates with the intended parents throughout the surrogacy process and allow the intended parents to attend important medical appointments with her to watch the baby’s growth. Often, surrogate mothers will become close with the intended parents, and the family that grows, thanks to gestational surrogacy. These strong bonds can develop into lasting relationships.
5. Surrogates Become Part of an Incredible Surrogacy Community
Once you become a surrogate, you enter into a community of kindhearted women. Many surrogates feel a strong sense of kinship with other surrogate mothers and develop close bonds. Working with our surrogacy agency allows you to get to know a network of people to support you throughout your surrogacy journey.
6. Surrogates will have Guaranteed Legal Protection
Surrogacy is legal in Colorado. All of the surrogates who work through our surrogacy agency are advised to get a surrogacy attorney to ensure that their rights are protected throughout the surrogacy process. We encourage our intended parents to do the same. Even though parental rights aren’t in question during gestational surrogacy, it’s still important that each party has proper legal representation and protection to ensure a smooth, positive, and successful surrogacy journey. These protections ensure that you, as a surrogate, will not be responsible for the child after birth, while, at the same time, giving the intended parents assurance that they will receive custody.
7. Surrogates can Focus on Staying Healthy
All of the medical expenses are covered by the intended parents. Surrogates do not need to worry about the cost of the surrogacy process, and can focus their energies on growing a healthy baby.
Choosing Gestational Surrogacy as a Surrogate in 2021
Surrogacy is a gift for intended parents and an opportunity for women with a history of easy pregnancies to give back. Gestational surrogacy offers surrogates an emotional safeguard against attachment to the baby and makes for a comfortable relationship with the intended parents. You can have confidence that your pregnancy expenses will be paid for and may even be compensated beyond what is necessary. The gift of life comes with a great deal of benefits both from pride and accomplishment as well as discovering a new perspective as you enter a whole new community.
After you have finished your own family, you may want to consider becoming a gestational carrier for families and individuals in need. Adoption and Surrogacy Choices of Colorado is here to help you throughout the surrogacy process, connecting you with legal representation, medical care, and hands-on support for your surrogacy journey.
If you are interested in learning more about your gestational surrogacy options, contact Adoption and Surrogacy Choices of Colorado by email, phone, or text: Email Us, Text us: 720-371-1099, Call us: 303-670-4673 (HOPE). If you are hoping to adopt, please contact us here.
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Stephanie joined the Adoption Choices family in 2014 as the Child Placement Supervisor. Her love for adoption began in first grade when she made friends with twins adopted from Vietnam. Her heart grew strong over the years for adopted children and ultimately led her to graduate school where she continued her focus to her dream of working in the adoption field. Stephanie earned a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Denver in 2001. Over the past 15 years, Stephanie has worked as a pregnancy counselor and as an adoptive parent counselor for foster care, international adoption and domestic adoption, writing hundreds of home studies for families, and helping build their forever families. Stephanie is married and has three boys ages 12, 9, and 5. Together with her family she enjoys riding bike, playing games, watching her three sons compete in their various sporting and musical activities and go on vacations.
Christy Ikeler, is our Executive Director and Birth Parent Director. Christy has been with Adoption Choices Team for 18 years, since opening the doors in 2002! Christy has a true passion for what she does and her true love is working with and helping each birth parent. Whether she is up all night on the phone talking with them, taking them to doctors appointments, out for their favorite treat, providing counseling or at the hospital during labor and delivery, Christy is very involved every step of the way. She has a contagious laugh and a spunky personality that our birth moms all can bond with and relate to. As an adoptive parent herself, adoption holds a very special place in her heart and she can relate on every level with both birth parents and adoptive parents. In her free time Christy loves spending time with her daughter, gardening, baking and taking vacations with her family. Christy is an excellent leader for our team at Adoption Choices and is truly one of a kind!! As Executive Director, Christy spends time with the staff, birth parents and adoptive families in order to ensure that the agency is running smoothly. She has placed a huge emphasis on community outreach and programs for birth parents. Christy loves the opportunity to lead the agency into a brighter future.
Ms. Mackenzie has built a successful counseling career over the past 20 years, supporting mothers and families, people of all ages and genders, students, community professionals and fellow clinicians. Liv values a diverse professional focus, including the entrepreneurial life of a sole proprietor, the evaluative process of certifying foster/adoptive homes, the insightful and mindful one-on-one one work with enthusiastic clients, and serving as an advocate for underserved populations. Liv is a Licensed Professional Counselor and holds a BA in Pre-Law and Economics from American University, an MA in Counseling from Adams University and a certificate in Human Resource Management from Villanova University. Away from work you will find Liv spending time in nature, biking to the farmer’s market and adventuring with her family.
Catherine A. Madsen, joined the Adoption Choices family as legal counsel in 2013. Catherine is responsible for providing legal guidance to the Agency, training and updating staff on developments in adoption law and legislation, and program development. Catherine
Virginia Frank is an adoption attorney accredited since 1991 with the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. Ms. Frank is a leader in the field of private adoption and has completed over 4,000 adoptions in her career. Ms. Frank has a law degree from Oklahoma City University and a BA in both Political Science and Communications from the University of Oklahoma.
Cassidie has been with Adoption Choices since 2015, she has her bachelors in Interdisciplinary Affairs with concentrations in both Sociology and Business Management. Cassidie has additional training in Victim Advocacy, foster care and has been working in women’s services for over 10 years. Cassidie has always had a heart for adoption and it was her career dream to work in adoption. She started off doing volunteer work for advocacy programs, adoption organizations and worked in High Risk Maternal Fetal Medicine through the University of Colorado Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Colorado. Cassidie is also blessed to have personally experienced an adoption of her own in 2012, completing her family of five! Cassidie loves what she does as a case worker from initial phone calls, meetings, doctor appointments, interaction with the adoptive families to delivery and counseling. Cassidie has a passion for those in need and strives to help make a difference in the lives of the people she meets. She is a firm believer in being kind, compassionate and open minded in all situations. “Unless you’ve walked in their shoes, there’s no place for judgment. A kind word or compliment can go a long way!” The bittersweet moments in adoption reminds Cassidie each and every time, why she loves what she does!