Creating Embryos for Surrogacy

Creating embryos for surrogacy is a critical step in your journey toward building the family you’ve always dreamed of.

Whether you are starting your fertility journey or are moving on from in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and wanting to learn more about the specifics of surrogacy with your situation, it can put you on the path to parenthood.

Having embryos puts you that much closer to parenthood as you can be matched with surrogate quickly. If creating embryos for surrogacy could be part of your journey, contact us online to get the support you deserve. We can help you find the perfect surrogate.

We’ll take a deeper look into why creating embryos for surrogacy may be necessary, how it’s done and what comes next.

Creating Embryos for Surrogacy [5 Steps]

Creating embryos can be broken down into five stages:

• Step 1: Ovarian Stimulation: Hormone treatments will be taken to stimulate your ovaries. This will help produce multiple eggs. Multiple eggs increase the chance of fertilization and implantation.
• Step 2: Egg Retrieval (or Find a Donor): Once there are enough mature eggs, they will be retrieved under sedation.
• Step 3: Fertilization: Eggs and sperm will be combined in lab to create embryos.
• Step 4: Embryo Development: The embryos that develop into the best blastocysts will be chosen for transfer.
• Step 5: Cryopreservation: Embryos at this point are stored for future use whenever you are ready for them.

Get in touch with us today if creating embryos for surrogacy could be right for you, we can walk you through how to meet the specific requirements.

What About Using Embryos We Made Before We Chose Surrogacy?

If you already have embryos created from previous IVF cycles, you can use the highest-quality embryos for surrogacy without needing to create new ones.

Having embryos coming into the process means you are that much closer to being a parent. You need to have your embryos before you can continue on to the next stage of the surrogacy process, matching with a surrogate.

Most professionals won’t match you with surrogate until you have embryos created. This gets rid of the chance of there being no embryos to move forward with along with determining the seriousness of intended parents as they consider this route to growing their family.

When to Consider Creating Embryos for Surrogacy After IVF

Surrogacy may be right for you if:

• You or your partner doesn’t have a functioning uterus.
• Uterine health issues have made your uterus unsuitable for pregnancy (i.e. extensive fibroids, scarring of the uterine cavity).
• You or your partner have no or few embryos left after failed IVF transfers.
• You or your partner have no or few embryos make it to the blastocyst stage.
• You or your partner have no remaining embryos that are viable for use.
• You or your partner have a medical condition that comes with significant medical risk by becoming pregnant
• You or your partners have a history of recurrent pregnancy loss.
• You and your partner are a same-sex couple.

It doesn’t matter where you are on your journey to becoming a parent. If any of those situations above apply to you, you will likely need to create embryos for surrogacy.

You need to have your embryos before you can continue on to the next stage of the surrogacy process, matching with a surrogate.

You may already have embryos frozen from prior in-vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles that have failed. If you were using embryos made before you chose surrogacy, those embryos can be used to help you find a surrogate quickly.

When Do I Need to Do Genetic Testing for Surrogacy Embryos?

Preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) takes place before the embryo transfer.

Embryo transfers often don’t end in pregnancies as a result of abnormal embryo genetics. PGT allows you to choose the most developed, high quality embryos with the correct number of chromosomes.

Get the Support You Deserve

While you get into the process of creating embryos for surrogacy, you can continue to take the steps needed to get you closer to becoming a parent by filling out our online contact form.

We can help you get started on your surrogacy planning questionnaire and intended parent profile. The questionnaire will help us get to know you and your goals for surrogacy while your profile tells potential surrogates all about you.