Who Are the Women Who Choose To Be Surrogate Mothers in Colorado?
Are you from Colorado and interested in becoming a surrogate mother? Do you want to know more about these women and what gestational surrogacy means to them? Suppose you want to learn about the benefits of becoming a gestational carrier and why other women choose to become surrogate mothers in Colorado. In that case, Adoption and Surrogacy Choices of Colorado can help provide you with the information you need to start your journey.
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.
Surrogate mothers, otherwise known as gestational carriers, are women who carry someone else’s child for them through IVF. Suppose you are considering becoming a surrogate mother. In that case, it is essential to know that you are not biologically related to the child you carry, so therefore you do not have any parental rights. Surrogate mothers are women who want to help a family or friend in need by carrying their child or help build a family for an intended couple they might not know. There is a common misconception and taboo around surrogate birth mothers who only do this process for compensation, but this is not always the case. This process is emotionally and physically taxing and is done for selfless reasons – to help give back to others.
While fair and adequate compensation is provided for surrogate mothers, this is not the main reason most gestational carriers choose this journey. You, along with the women who choose to become surrogate mothers, are selfless and give people an altruistic heart. You enjoy being pregnant and find it a rewarding and beautiful experience you want to share with the intended parents or individual you are matched with.
Your end goal for becoming a surrogate mother is helping to create a family and giving back to others. However, there are a variety of other reasons you may also want to become a gestational carrier.
- You have personal experience seeing someone you know with infertility or conceiving a child. Perhaps you want to help them, and this same sense of help extends to those you don’t know.
- You enjoy pregnancy and find joy in being pregnant. Perhaps you have an easier time with the various symptoms that come along with being pregnant, or you find the experience of creating life to be enriching and rewarding.
- You find the experience of helping intended parents become a family to be the best gift. You are able to create some strong shared bonds with the parents or individuals you are matched with and share an incredible journey with them.
Why Do Women Choose To Become Surrogate Mothers in Colorado?
There are so many incredible benefits when you become a surrogate mother. You are about to embark on such a unique journey with the couple or individual you are matched with. Although the baby you give birth to is not your own, you still experience many benefits along the way.
- You experience enrichment and joy. You are performing a selfless act by giving birth to a couple or individual and going through an emotional, complex, and shared journey.
- You are brought into a wonderful group of women. You will meet other surrogate mothers through Adoption and Surrogacy Choices of Colorado who have gone through the same journey you did.
- You are paid a fair sum for your part in the process. Your medical expenses are also paid for by the intended parents beginning with the IVF process and lasting until six weeks postpartum.
- You are sharing your experience with a couple or individual who may not have the privilege of becoming pregnant. You become connected and form a relationship with your matched individual or couple through their child’s wellbeing. You will form unbelievable connections with the family you help create.
If you enjoy pregnancy and want to help start a family, then you might find that the surrogacy process in Colorado can be done alone. However, we encourage you to find a surrogacy agency that is right for you that can help with legal and medical matters. Here at Adoption and Surrogacy Choices of Colorado, we have a team of qualified professionals to help you become a surrogate mother. There are so many rewarding benefits you will experience as a surrogate and working with our surrogacy agency. If you are emotionally ready and fit the requirements of being a surrogate mother, then we are here to help you with the next steps in this enriching, selfless, and joyous process.
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: Katie Doherty is a junior Writing, Literature, and Publishing major at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. She loves to write, read, and edit, whether it’s technical or creative writing. Although she enjoys writing poetry, narrative nonfiction, and fiction writing, she also loves to write on current political events, cultural trends, and research. She spends her free time listening to music, watching the Great British Bake Off, and learning how to crochet.
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!