Find a Surrogate in Georgia
Finding the right surrogate in Atlanta, GA, is a thoughtful, collaborative journey:
- Initial Consultation: Connect with surrogacy experts like GSHC to understand the process and share your hopes and preferences.
- Surrogate Screening: Potential surrogates complete medical, psychological, and lifestyle evaluations to ensure a good fit.
- Matching Process: Review detailed profiles and choose a surrogate whose values and expectations align with yours.
- Introduction Meeting: Meet your matched surrogate to start building a trusting, respectful relationship.
How Much Does Surrogacy Cost in Georgia?
In Atlanta, the cost of surrogacy typically ranges from $80,000 to $300,000, which includes everything from agency fees and medical care to surrogate compensation, IVF treatments, and travel.
While it might feel like a big investment (and it is!), there are plenty of ways to ease the financial load like grants, loans, employer fertility benefits, and sometimes insurance coverage for certain treatments. Remember, countless families have successfully navigated this path. With careful planning, trusted support, and the right resources, surrogacy can be an achievable and incredibly fulfilling way to grow your family.
How to Find a Surrogate in Georgia
While you do have the option to have an independent surrogate experience in Georgia, working with a surrogacy agency like GSHC can be a great way to eliminate the stress, confusion, and frustration that can be involved with the process. When you work with an agency, you’ll have an advocate on your side who will:
- Support you from beginning to end
- Screen and match you and/or your partner with surrogates who will be the right fit for your family
- Help you gain access to other professionals, like a surrogacy attorney, medical professionals, clinics, and more, for the duration of the process
- Provide assistance throughout the pregnancy, should any issues or complications with the surrogate arise
As a surrogate and family will forever be bonded and may even wish to maintain a relationship throughout the child’s life, the surrogacy agency may be able to facilitate this relationship and continue providing support that is needed well after delivery.
Using an Egg Donor and Surrogate in Georgia
Georgia currently does not have any statutes or case law prohibiting surrogacy, thus permitting both gestational surrogacy and traditional surrogacy.
- In traditional surrogacy, the surrogate is also the biological mother of the child she carries. Her egg is fertilized using sperm from the intended father or a donor using intrauterine insemination (IUI).
- In gestational surrogacy, the surrogate has no genetic link and is unrelated to the baby. The embryo is created using the egg and sperm of the intended parents or donors, and then transferred to the surrogate's uterus through in vitro fertilization (IVF).
LGBTQ+ Surrogacy in Georgia
Georgia’s local courts honor surrogacy contracts and regularly grant pre-birth parentage orders, or post-birth orders in some cases, for all intended parents, regardless of orientation or marital status.