Understanding Your Choices as a Potential Surrogate in Colorado
Surrogacy is a process that involves a lot of attention to detail. There are many decisions, options, and things to consider as a potential surrogate in Colorado. As a potential surrogate, there are choices that you will have to decide on before the process begins. Thankfully, you don’t have to go through that alone! Adoption and Surrogacy Choices of Colorado is here to help you.
If you or someone you know is interested in becoming a surrogate, please call or text us at 303-670-4673 (HOPE) or visit us at Adoption and Surrogacy Choices of Colorado.
Why Are You Choosing To Become a Potential Surrogate in Colorado?
While considering surrogacy in Colorado, it’s important to remember your “why.” Take time to self-reflect and think about why you are choosing to be a surrogate. Maybe you enjoyed your pregnancy and want to go through another one to help start a family. Maybe there are intended parents who you know personally who you want to help. Whatever your personal reason for becoming a potential surrogate in Colorado, it is important to know why you made that choice. Surrogacy is a process that uses your body, and the choice to partake is completely yours to make. Remembering why you are becoming a potential surrogate in Colorado will help you remain strong during the times when this process may become difficult.
Do You Feel a Connection With the Intended Parents?
During the surrogacy process, you will have the opportunity to meet with many intended parents. This process is called surrogacy matching. During this process, you will have interviews with intended parents. This allows you to learn about the individuals you will become a surrogate mother for. You get to choose who you believe you will work well with during your surrogacy journey. This is one of the choices you have the power to make as a potential surrogate.
Would You Like to Have Financial Surrogacy Compensation?
There are many fine details involved in surrogacy. Sometimes these details have expenses that can add up quite fast. As a surrogate, it is important to decide on whether or not you want compensation for these expenses. This may include health insurance fees, an embryo transfer fee, or even travel and lodging fees. Some other potential costs and fees may come up. It is up to you to choose whether or not you want to work with intended parents who will provide the compensation. Once the decision is made, you and the intended parents can include it in the financial plan for the surrogacy process.
Are You Willing To Undergo Medical Procedures?
If you are a potential surrogate who has been pregnant before, you basically know what to expect during pregnancy. However, Colorado surrogacy can be a bit different than a typical pregnancy. Yes, you will still be bearing a child, but gestational surrogates will become pregnant through a process called Invitro Fertilization (IVF). This process requires a series of injections that you give yourself as a part of your fertility treatment as a surrogate. There have been cases where IVF is successful the first time around. On the other hand, there are instances where this procedure is not successful the first time around and may have to be repeated.
Finding The Right Colorado Surrogacy Agency
Surrogacy is a long but rewarding journey. Being able to help create a family is a gift. As a potential surrogate, there are various decisions that you have to make. These decisions range anywhere from choosing to accept financial compensation to choosing the intended parents you want to be a surrogate for. You do have options as a surrogate. If you want more information about surrogacy and how I can work for you, reach out to Adoption and Surrogacy Choices of Colorado today. We have many resources to help prospective surrogates just like you. Contact us today!
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!