The Pre-Screening Process
Once you have determined that surrogacy is right for you and after the minimum requirements and application have been processed, you will be invited to our pre-screening. At The Surrogacy Experience (TSE), we take on the financial risk to make sure all of our potential Surrogates are safe and pre-approved before introducing them to potential Intended Parents. We would never have you sit in a database only to find out that there was a concern to prevent you from moving forward with your dreams.
Pre-screening Process:
We encourage potential Surrogate candidates to be as open and direct as possible about the relationship they want to have with Intended Parents during all stages of their journey and even post-delivery. We have found that some parents will want to attend every doctor’s appointment with their Gestational Carrier, some will want to attend the significant milestone appointments, and some will only want updates after each appointment. Every parent’s feelings, as will those of every Gestational Carrier, will be different. Our core mission is to match you with Intended Parents with similar expectations.
We perform the pre-screening process at our expense, at no cost to you. For this reason, we require surrogate candidates to sign an exclusivity agreement with our agency. This allows us to focus our resources and invest in finding you the best match.
Pre-screening Process:
- Medical Record Review - Record collection of past pregnancies (prenatal and labor/delivery), written approval from your OB/GYN to become pregnant, along with most recent PAP lab results, are given to a fertility doctor in our network for initial approval
- National Background Check - required for you and any adult in your household
- Psychological Evaluation - initial phone evaluation performed by a licensed mental health professional in our network
- Drug Screening - at a lab testing location close to your location
- Insurance Review - if you currently have healthcare coverage (non-state sponsored), we hire a third-party specialist who will review your plan to see if it can be used for prenatal and labor/delivery care for surrogacy
- Home Visit - a member of the TSE team or a social worker will come to your home and discuss the next steps of the process but, more importantly, get to know you and your family
We encourage potential Surrogate candidates to be as open and direct as possible about the relationship they want to have with Intended Parents during all stages of their journey and even post-delivery. We have found that some parents will want to attend every doctor’s appointment with their Gestational Carrier, some will want to attend the significant milestone appointments, and some will only want updates after each appointment. Every parent’s feelings, as will those of every Gestational Carrier, will be different. Our core mission is to match you with Intended Parents with similar expectations.
We perform the pre-screening process at our expense, at no cost to you. For this reason, we require surrogate candidates to sign an exclusivity agreement with our agency. This allows us to focus our resources and invest in finding you the best match.