Hi All, new joiner here. My wife and I are considering surrogacy as an option, based in NYC. Anyone with experience or guidance to share? Looking for info on process and suggestions on providers. Any DM welcome. Thanks a lot for the support!

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I’m going down the same path. Are you with an IVF clinic? Often then have options to pursue surrogacy and you can schedule a consult with them to start. Couple things to consider that came as a bit of a shock to me:
- costs can run over $100k depending on a bunch of factors
- different states have different laws around surrogacy
- if you go through an agency, matching can take a year, then several more months to go through legal hurdles before you can transfer
- the transfer might not work (this shouldn’t be a shock but it was a lot for me to process that we could go through so much and spend so much for nothing)

Clinic will usually refer you to one of their preferred agencies. They don’t do the matching themselves, but they will have their own health screening criteria if you do the transfer through them. The other option is foregoing the agency altogether and finding someone on your own, which obviously has pros and cons.

We're looking into doing this overseas (possibly in Georgia). It is indeed very expensive.

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