The Surrogacy Center of Philadelphia serves clients from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and around the world.
As a full-service surrogacy agency with over 15 years of experience, we are proud to support you on your journey.
When you start a family through the Surrogacy Center of Philadelphia, you’re joining our family too. We’re with you every step of the way. From calming your anxieties and concerns, answering questions about each step of the gestational surrogacy process, and being there with you during the birth and the days that follow. Get to know our team.
The Surrogacy Center of Philadelphia was started out of the desire to offer Intended Parents and Surrogates in the Greater Philadelphia area something different. We believe that family is personal, and you deserve the best process we can offer: in-person support, financial transparency, open and honest communication.
Surrogates in our surrogacy agency are incredible – healthy and compassionate women that are dedicated to helping you create your family. We pride ourselves in providing meaningful support to our parents.
We are an agency staffed by professionals who have been surrogates themselves. We understand and appreciate the incredible gift of surrogacy. Learn more about what you experience as a surrogate with our agency.
We have more than a decade of experience helping Intended Parents fulfill their lifelong desire to create a family.
At the Surrogacy Center of Philadelphia, we think you deserve a different kind of experience. What does that look like?
We give you a realistic budget and access to support while waiting for a match. We pre-screen all surrogates in our program, so you never set your heart on someone who isn’t a viable candidate. We hear your story and will match you with a surrogate who has the same values as your family.
All of this happens before any agency fees are due.
We recognize the significant investment you are making – financially and emotionally. And we are committed to protecting you. That means we have milestone-based agency payments that reflect the progress you are making through your surrogacy journey. We use an independent, fully licensed, bonded and insured professional escrow agency to hold your surrogate’s funds (with balances and transactions accessible to you anytime online). We work closely with the 3rd Party Nurse Coordinator at your clinic of choice to make sure your cycle gets off to a great start.
Gestational surrogacy is a method for having a child for individuals and couples. Intended Parents work with a gestational carrier who becomes pregnant using embryos created with: (1) the intended mother’s ovum or donor ovum, and (2) the intended father’s sperm or donor sperm. The Gestational Surrogate has no genetic relationship to the baby. She is simply the oven for a very precious bun! We created a blog post where we discuss gestational surrogacy in more detail.
There are many parties involved in a surrogacy journey. That can be overwhelming. As an agency, our job is like an orchestra director, bringing together different players to create a harmonious journey. Besides the Gestational Carrier and the Intended Parents, there is the fertility clinic that performs the medical cycle and many other professionals – attorneys that draw up contracts between all parties, psychologists that explore the motivations and mental state of everyone involved, and escrow companies that hold all the funds to be paid to the gestational carrier in a safe and secure account. At the Surrogacy Center of Philadelphia, our decade-plus of experience helps you confidently navigate this process.
We believe in financial transparency. Our agency will provide you with a detailed cost estimate based on your circumstances, in conjunction with the clinic of your choosing. On average, an entire surrogacy journey, inclusive of all costs is around $100,000.
Not every agency is familiar with the complexities of international surrogacy. We are proud to have facilitated a number of journeys with Intended Parents that reside outside of the United States. We provide online consultations and facilitated video conference matching sessions. We work closely with your home-country attorney to ensure all legal documents are properly recognized. We offer highly personal post-delivery support – from helping you get passports to go home, to providing you with baby supplies, and making your family’s stay here as comfortable as possible.
A gestational carrier will carry embryos created through IVF. Prior to the embryo transfer, the gestational carrier will be on cycling medications. These medications are hormones that can control and suppress ovulation, as well as build up the uterine lining so the body is ready to receive the embryos. The hormones are taken in the form of oral medications and injections. The gestational carrier will have regular visits to the clinic to monitor her hormone levels and measure the thickness of her uterine lining via blood work and ultrasounds. At the appropriate time, the doctor will transfer the embryo into the gestational carrier’s uterus via a tiny catheter. It is a short, painless procedure. The gestational carrier then goes home to rest for a day or two before resuming normal activities.
Besides the gestational carrier and the Intended Parents, there is the fertility clinic that performs the medical cycle and many other professionals – attorneys that draw up contracts between all parties, psychologists that explore the motivations and mental state of everyone involved, escrow companies that hold all the funds to be paid to the gestational carrier in a safe and secure account, and finally, an agency that coordinates all the parties involved.
