What to Expect as a Surrogate Mother in Colorado
Are you looking to become a surrogate mother? Are you wondering what to expect as you start your journey? Do you have concerns about surrogacy? If so, let’s go over some things to expect on your surrogacy journey. Choosing to become a surrogate mother is an amazing, selfless act, and you deserve to have access to the best resources. By working with a surrogacy agency, you can ensure your journey goes smoothly. By learning what to expect as a surrogate mother in Colorado, you are ensuring your peace of mind.
Adoption and Surrogacy Choices of Colorado is eager to help you every step of your journey. We have a team of professionals ready to ensure a low-stress process.
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.
What is the Surrogacy Process in Colorado?
As you’re navigating your surrogacy journey, it’s good to know the process we provide through our Colorado agency. Your first step is to get in contact with our team of professionals. After that, you will start your matching process to find your intended parents. Then you go through some medical screenings and procedures to make sure you are physically ready to become a surrogate mother. Our surrogacy agency provides gestational surrogacy because it keeps everyone involved safe. With gestational surrogacy, the surrogate mother is not genetically linked to the baby. This makes sure you, the surrogate mother, is emotionally and physically safe. After your health screenings, you will go over the necessary paperwork with the lawyer you choose. Once that is taken care of, you can carry the child to term!
How Can I Prepare to be a Surrogate Mother?
To better prepare for your surrogacy journey, start familiarizing yourself with some terms and concepts that can come up. One being in-vitro fertilization which is when the egg of the intended mother is fertilized by the sperm of the intended father in a lab. The egg is then carried by the surrogate mother to term. We refer to this as gestational surrogacy and ensures the safety of everyone involved, including the child. Other terms to be familiar with are intended mother and intended father. These are couples or individuals who are struggling to have a child of their own and have turned to surrogacy to grow their family. Adoption and Surrogacy Choices of Colorado happily takes any applicants from any background who are looking to have the family they’re hoping for.
Another way to prepare for your journey is to make sure you are protected. By doing research and using the reliable resources our agency can provide you, you can better protect yourself physically, mentally, and legally. We can help you find a lawyer to go over legal documents and help you schedule medical appointments as well. By working with our agency, you can make sure you are taken care of to focus on bonding with your intended parents.
Who is Going to Help Me On My Surrogacy Journey?
Some might see the surrogacy process in Colorado and feel they can take it on alone. While independent surrogacy is doable, it is best advised to work through a surrogacy agency. With our agency, you will be helped every step of the way. You will be in contact with counselors to help you with any emotional concerns you have. You will also have access to our professionals to help you schedule appointments, find legal representation, and come up with a compensation plan. By working with our surrogacy agency, you will not have to handle the complicated process alone. Our agency and your intended parents will be happy to help you every step of the way.
What to Expect as a Surrogate Mother and How Can I Prepare for My Surrogacy Journey?
As a surrogate mother, you are doing an incredibly selfless act. You deserve to have the support and care you need. With Adoption and Surrogacy Choices of Colorado, you are our top priority. We want to make sure your journey goes smoothly.
Now that you know more about the surrogacy process in Colorado, what are the next steps for you to take? What do you need to do to prepare for your 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.
Meet the Author: Molly Allington is an aspiring author born and raised in Syracuse, New York. When she’s not watching her latest Netflix obsession, you can find her nose deep in a book or in her writing. She has been writing books since she was twelve and is in the process of trying to get her finished books published. Molly has a BA in Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University. With her writing, she is hoping to share supportive information and help as many people as possible. Once she starts her own family, she is wanting to adopt.
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!