We want to offer everyone a chance to build the family they’ve always dreamed of. Through Maine’s surrogacy process, we can do just that. Whether you’re still deciding if you want to start the process or ready to submit an interest form, we’re happy to help you get started.
Step 1: Submit Your Initial Application
This is what begins your journey with the surrogacy process in Maine! By sending your initial interest form and application, you are beginning the process and a surrogacy specialist will be in touch with you. Getting started with our agency will help you ease into the process with the help of a surrogacy specialist. We will help you with the many services involved in surrogacy, finding your surrogacy match and much more.
Step 2: Go Through the Screening Process
The screening process is necessary for intended parents as well as surrogates. Through our intensive screening process, we can assure that our surrogates and intended parents are ready for Maine’s surrogacy process. This helps create better relationships and a better experience for everyone involved. Surrogates will go through a screening process that will involve medical and social information, an in-home assessment, mental health and medical evaluations and background checks. Intended parents will also go through a screening process. Theirs includes a surrogacy planning questionnaire and background checks to ensure they are ready for the surrogacy process.
Step 3: Find Your Match
Finding your match is a turning point in your surrogacy journey. It’s the moment you connect with a surrogacy partner who will make the whole process real. Intended parents will create a profile that will tell surrogates about themselves. You can include photos, location, religion, reasons for surrogacy and anything else you think might be relevant to a potential surrogate.
Surrogates will also create a profile that shares similar information and you will include information about your preferences in the type of intended parents you work with. Your surrogacy specialist will then match you with intended parents they feel are a perfect fit. From there, an initial phone call between intended parents and the surrogate will happen. Then you can choose to move forward with each other in the surrogacy process.
Step 4: Begin Legal Process
The legal process of surrogacy in Maine helps keep everything on track while avoiding any questions about who is responsible for different aspects. The surrogacy attorney for the intended parents will draw up the surrogacy contract. Then the surrogate’s attorney will ensure that the contract aligns with what their surrogacy preferences.. The contract will detail risks, responsibilities, surrogate pay and more. These will usually be agreed upon beforehand, using the surrogacy contract to reinforce the information. Intended parents will also need their surrogacy attorney to help them file a pre-birth order. This will allow them to be legally identified as the parents of the baby before it’s born.
Step 5: Embryo Transfer
Preparing for the embryo transfer is integral for both the surrogate and intended parents. As intended parents, you will need to decide if you would like to use your own egg and sperm or a donor’s. If you’ve gone through IVF previously, you can use any eggs you have left from the process.
A surrogate will need to start fertility medication, injections and have some lab work done to prepare for the medical process. The medication and injections help prepare your body for the process and regulate your cycle so the embryo transfer can happen at an optimal time.
We want you to have a positive experience through the surrogacy process in Maine. We offer you a responsive staff that stay in touch and are easy to reach out to no matter what you need. Get started with your surrogacy journey and contact us today.