When you’re trying to get pregnant and start your family, and it’s taking longer than you had hoped, you can feel frustrated, disappointed and angry. Why does pregnancy come so easily to others? How many more Instagram posts of baby announcements do you need to see? If you’re having challenges conceiving naturally, you may have […]
Author: Kristin Marsoli
Fertility, IVF, and Using Donor Eggs
A Short Guide for Surrogates: Shipping Breast Milk
Whether a surrogate is interested in shipping breast milk is first discussed during the surrogate consultation stage of the process. If a surrogate knows that pumping and shipping breast milk is not something that she is interested in doing, she will be matched with intended parents who have aligned views. The decision to pump and […]
How Much Do Surrogates Make? New Surrogate Pay!
Even though earning money is not the primary motivation for becoming a surrogate mother, how much surrogates make is one of the most-discussed topics when women apply to be gestational carriers at our surrogacy agencies in California, Massachusetts, and New York. Ensuring gestational surrogates are properly compensated for their emotional, mental and physical dedication to […]
Top 10 Egg Donor Questions From Our Website Chat
The act of donating your eggs is a generous one, and so many women have become egg donors to help others grow their families. Circle Egg Donation in the San Francisco Bay Area, NYC, and Boston, encourages potential egg donors to research the egg donation process before applying to be egg donors. Circle Egg Donation […]
What Does a Surrogate Support Person Do?
Behind every gestational surrogate is an amazing Primary Support Person (PSP). We often refer to a surrogate’s support person as the unsung heroes of the surrogate pregnancy! The role of a surrogate mother’s Primary Support Person is to be the emotional, physical and mental support of the surrogate throughout her journey. This role is so […]
10 Ways to Prepare to Become a Surrogate
Becoming a surrogate – also called a gestational surrogate – is a wonderful way to help another family. A woman who applies to be a surrogate mother is someone who is generous and kind, and who desires to help others. Gestational surrogates are women who have had easy pregnancies and deliveries, and whose own families […]
International Surrogacy in the U.S.
Surrogacy is a meaningful way to have the family you’ve always dreamed of. For intended parents who live abroad, surrogacy may not seem like a possibility in your home country. Building your family through international surrogacy is possible when you work with an experienced and reputable surrogacy agency in the United States, such as Circle […]
How Can I Afford Surrogacy?
Growing your family through surrogacy is a monumental emotional – and financial – journey. For most people, covering the costs of surrogacy requires planning and organization. Intended parents can plan for a surrogacy journey for a few years. Like your surrogacy journey itself, how you save for and afford surrogacy is personal and unique to […]
How a Surrogate Can Prepare for Contract Negotiations
Whether you’re a first-time surrogate in the Bay Area or an experienced gestational carrier in New York, moving into the contract negotiations phase of your journey may bring up lots of questions. As a gestational carrier, understanding what goes into your surrogacy contract will help prepare you for when it happens. Some helpful considerations when […]
The COVID Vaccine and Surrogate Pregnancy: What You Need to Know
Circle Surrogacy & Egg Donation sat down (virtually!) with Infertility Specialists and Reproductive Endocrinologists from some of our partner fertility clinics to discuss surrogacy in the time of COVID, and how the vaccine might affect those who are pregnant, or soon to be pregnant. Our panel of specialists include: Dr. Michele Evans, Infertility Specialist and […]