What is a Surrogate?

A surrogate – also called a gestational carrier or gestational surrogate – is a woman who carries a baby for people (the Intended Parents) who are unable to have a baby on their own. Most surrogates are gestational surrogates, meaning the surrogate does not use her own eggs and doesn’t share any genetics with the baby.

Circle Surrogacy only works with gestational carriers – women who do not share biology with the baby they are carrying.

Surrogates get paid for carrying someone’s baby, and they are protected by a legal contract signed by both the surrogate and the Intended Parents.

But most importantly, a surrogate is a giver of hope and happiness to those looking to be parents!

Surrogates are women who have children of their own, have had relatively easy pregnancies and births (they like being pregnant!), and many have completed their own families. Surrogates want to help others have their own families.

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What is surrogacy? It’s an amazing way to help make intended parents’ dreams come true and give others the ultimate gift: a baby!