As a Gestational Carrier, How Do I Match With a Family in Oklahoma?
By Kyla Helwig
Adoption and Surrogacy Choices of Oklahoma is a surrogacy agency in Oklahoma that matches gestational carriers with intended parents. Surrogacy allows families who are unable to have children to start a family. The role of a gestational carrier is to carry and give birth to the child for a set of intended parents. Becoming a surrogate mother requires good health and diligence, but is well worth it in the end. Therefore, before you become a surrogate, you will have to undergo medical and mental screenings. Here is the process to become a gestational carrier and find a match with an intended parent in Oklahoma.
Leading Up to the Matching Process
Before matching with a family, you need an agency’s approval. When you are entering the world of OK surrogacy, you will need to fulfill some qualifications. Here are the requirements for Adoption and Surrogacy Choices of Oklahoma website:
- 21-39 years old
- Experience with pregnancy in the past
- Currently parenting a child
- No experience with postpartum depression
- Free from mental health issues and medication
- Not living on public assistance
Furthermore, if you fulfill the initial requirements, our agency will invite you in for a couple of screenings. During this time, our agency will determine if you are healthy enough to become a surrogate mother. If the professionals that assess you determine that you are indeed healthy, you will move on to the matching process.
What is the Matching Process?
Being matched with a family is one of the more important steps in surrogacy. You will provide the agency with your preferences for the process, and we find a good fit. It will be important to clarify the details of your surrogacy plan, which includes compensation and specific medical procedures. These are details that you can work out with the family later on as well. You don’t need to worry about being paired with a couple that will treat you poorly.
What is the Role of a Gestational Carrier?
As a gestational carrier, you will play a key role in the surrogacy process. You will be able to provide for a family in a very unique way. The family that you are matched with will provide their sperm and egg to a fertility clinic. The clinic will take care of the fertilization and when it is ready, the embryos will be transferred. In the In Vitro Fertilization process, you will travel to the chosen fertility clinic. The embryos will be placed in your uterus and you will wait for pregnancy. If you do become pregnant, however, you will continue on with life as normal. Once it is time for the baby to be born, you will give birth and the baby will go home with the intended parents.
How Match with an Intended Parent?
If you wish to become a gestational carrier, you’ve come to the right place. Adoption and Surrogacy Choices of Oklahoma is an agency that understands how surrogacy works and wants to guide you through the process. Like many medical processes, we take surrogacy seriously. It is important that our gestational carriers are healthy before we approve them to protect their health and the intended parents. Like all partnerships, we can’t promise a perfect relationship between you and the intended parents. However, as an agency, we are here to guide you guys and facilitate important conversations.
If you are interested in pursuing surrogacy, our agency can help. We are a team that seeks to provide all gestational carriers with accurate information. If you have concerns, we would like to address them. Please feel free to reach out to us at any time. Adoption and Surrogacy Choices of Oklahoma is a surrogacy and adoption agency, licensed by the state of Oklahoma and a leader in the community. We assist both intended parents and gestational carriers (surrogates). Our staff members are committed to providing an ethical, empowering, and personalized experience to all involved in the surrogacy process.
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