Carrying a pregnancy involves serious physical strains on a woman’s body, and for myriad reasons, not all women are able to carry and deliver a baby themselves. When IVFMD’s expert reproductive endocrinology/infertility doctors determine that carrying a pregnancy may jeopardize the health or life of the woman and/or her baby, she becomes eligible for having another woman carry her pregnancy for her.

The Third-Party Reproduction Department and the expert reproductive endocrinologists at IVFMD work collaboratively with surrogacy agencies, psychologists, and attorneys to best assure the carrier is healthy, that our patients understand the possible psychological issues they may face during this process, and that all legal papers are in place to protect all involved parties prior to beginning any fertility treatments or implantations.

Once all parties are cleared, sperm and eggs from the “commissioning couple” – the intended mother and father – are used to create embryos in IVFMD’s in vitro fertilization laboratory. The resulting embryos are cryopreserved (frozen) in anticipation of a future thaw and transfer process into the expertly prepared uterus of the carrier, who will carry the baby to term.