What is Surrogacy?

Surrogacy is a ground-breaking renovation developed in the reproductive medicine, which allows couples who are struggling with fertility to become parents via biological means.

Surrogacy is an excellent chance for many families who cannot naturally have a baby to enjoy the feeling of being parents. While the couples who could not have a baby used to adopt, today they have a chance to have a child with their own genes thanks to modern medicine. The advanced reproductive technology gives the patients the chance to become happy parents; hear the laughs of their children and see the first steps of their children.

The couples who want to become parents can receive surrogacy treatment at our center. We provide the couples with healthy eggs and sperms with the standard in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment and surrogacy treatment. We also offer egg donation and surrogacy program for the patients who cannot produce healthy egg cells due to several reasons, patients with menopause or early menopause.

Our services are based on strict confidence. We have developed and have been using a safe personal data protection system for each patient. We give you the chance to choose the ideal donor from our egg donor database which was created from European, Asian and African phenotypes.

We also help you choose the ideal surrogate mother based on your requirements. We will be glad to help you see the surrogate mother whenever you want before and during the pregnancy.

The surrogacy process requires reliability and sensitivity, thus our professional surrogate mother coordinator helps you contact the surrogate mother, arranges video calls upon your demand, monitors the medical examinations of the surrogate mother, makes uninformed visits to see the surrogate mother’s living conditions, submits you a medical report every month and informs you through the whole process. Our coordinators are constantly in contact with each surrogate mother and they are 24/7 ready to assist them.

Who Can Apply the Surrogate Mother Program?

• Women born without uterus.
• Women without uterus due to Tumor, Myoma, Cancer, etc.
• Women who had successive miscarriages.
• Women whose uterus cannot carry the pregnancy.
• Women with Asherman Syndrome.
• Patients who had repeated in vitro fertilization (IVF) implantation failures.
• Conditions which make pregnancy and delivery life threatening. (women with severe heart and lung related diseases, women with life threatening coagulation disorder)
• Women without egg and uterus.
• Those with congenital uterus anomaly. (uterus shape disorder, too small uterus, cohesiveness in the uterus, etc.)
• Women who do not prefer to do give birth due to social reasons.
• Same-sex couples

Who Can Become a Surrogate Mother?

• Young and healthy women.
• Women who do not have any infectious diseases.
• Women who do not drink alcohol, smoke and who do not have drug-substance addiction.
• Women who previously had a live birth.
• Women who did not have pregnancy related diabetes and preeclampsia history in their previous pregnancies.
• Women whose social life and psychological state is suitable for surrogacy.
• Women who do not have any chronic diseases. (diabetes, hypertension, etc.)
• Women who are not too thin or obese. (Body Mass Index should be in normak standards)

Choice of Donor Criteria in case of Need:

• Egg donors are 20-29 years old and healthy.
• Donors who previously gave birth to healthy children are preferred.
• Familial histories are investigated in terms of mental retardation.
• Family histories are investigated in terms of inherited diseases.
• The donor’s Body Mass Index (BMI) is between 19 and 29.
• Donors are investigated in terms of psychoactive medications.
• Donors are investigated in terms of substance addiction.
• Donors are investigated in terms of any genetic diseases.
• Both ovaries of the donors must be healthy.
• One having physical characteristics similar to the future mother is chosen as the donor.

Surrogacy Programs

Your surrogacy journey will not be as difficult as you think.

1. Surrogacy Process with Standard IVF Treatment

This is the treatment preferred by the couples who have healthy egg cells but do not have uterus for several reasons or who have uterus but cannot carry pregnancy. In this procedure, the embryos are obtained by using the patient’s own egg and sperm cells and they are transferred to the uterus of another healthy and fertile woman. The future baby carries the parents’ genetic structure. The Surrogate Mother is only the person who carries and gives birth to the baby.

Necessary Tests for the Woman:

Blood Group Analysis, AMH, TSH, T3, T4, Fasting Blood Glucose, Urea, SGOT, SGPT, Complete Blood Cell Count, PTZ, INR, APTT, Vitamin B12, HbsAg, Anti-HBc total, Anti-HCV, HIV, VDRL. You should take all these tests any day on an empty stomach.

Furthermore, you should take FSH, LH, E2 and PRL tests on the 2nd or 3rd day of your menstrual period if applicable.

Necessary Tests for the Man:

Blood Group Analysis, Spermiogram Test (to be made after 3 days’ sexual abstinence) HbsAg, Anti-HBc total, Anti-HCV, HIV, VDRL.

Treatment Phases:

• Egg collection and sperm injection process (IVF/ICSI)
• Embryo development phase
• Freezing good quality embryos on the 5th day of embryo development
• Surrogate mother selection
• Preparation of the surrogate mother for embryo transfer
• Embryo transfer to surrogate mother
• Pregnancy test for the surrogate mother
• Medical care for the surrogate mother for 9 months
• Delivery by the surrogate mother
• Issuing the birth certificate
• Preparing all documentation for the embassy
• Going-home with your baby

. Surrogacy Process with Egg Donation

This treatment is preferred by the parents who cannot produce healthy eggs and who need surrogate mother. We have a magnificent database with healthy and good nice donors with different histories. Our coordinator will do their best to help you choose the right egg donor based on your requirements.

Necessary Tests for the Man:

Blood Group Analysis, Spermiogram Test (to be made after 3 days’ sexual abstinence) HbsAg, Anti-HBc total, Anti-HCV, HIV, VDRL.

• Sperm injection, vitrification and storage
• Egg donor selection
• Egg donor preparation
• Egg collection from the egg donor
• IVF and embryo development phase
• Freezing good quality embryos on the 5th day of embryo development
• Surrogate mother selection
• Surrogate mother’s preparation for the embryo transfer
• Embryo transfer to the surrogate mother
• Pregnancy test for the surrogate mother
• Medical care for the surrogate mother for 9 months
• Delivery by the surrogate mother
• Issuing the birth certificate
• Preparing all documentation for the embassy
• Going-home with your baby

3. Single Man and Surrogate Mother

Men who want to be single fathers can achieve this through egg donation and surrogacy programs.

4. LGBTQ and Surrogacy

Same-sex couples can apply surrogacy programs to have children. Based on the couples’ decision, sperm can be used from one of them only or from both of them. The procedure is the same with the egg donation and surrogacy treatment.

Surrogacy Program Prices

Surrogacy is not a process which is affordable for everyone. This process requires not only payment for the surrogate mother and the clinic but also prices for IVF procedures, choosing sex if desired and egg donation if needed. At this point, we can say surrogacy requires a comprehensive plan. There are also attorney expenses because surrogacy has a legal dimension in the reliable clinics.

We can say that prices might become slightly expensive in case pregnancy occurs by donation in surrogacy. Also, the price increases if there is a twin pregnancy. The couples need to make an additional payment if they desire to determine the child’s sex. Moreover, travel expenses and other additional expenses will not be included in the surrogacy. We do give package prices for our patients to minimize their financial concerns.