Surrogacy for Intended Parents
Build your family with Love & Kindness beside you.
Choosing surrogacy is not just a practical decision. It is emotional, financial, and deeply personal. Many intended parents come to this process after years of waiting, loss, uncertainty, or hope.
We do not take that lightly.
We are very aware that money does not grow on trees. We know surrogacy has become more and more expensive over the years, and we understand that many intended parents are here because another path to parenthood was not possible, not safe, or not right for their family.
At Love & Kindness, we guide intended parents with honesty, care, and careful coordination. We help you understand the process, prepare for each step, and navigate the many moving pieces involved in a surrogacy journey.
When the journey becomes difficult, we believe that is where an agency’s values matter most. We stay close, communicate honestly, and work through the hard moments with you as real people, not as a file or a case number.
You deserve guidance that is honest, steady, and human.
Surrogacy asks you to trust many people with something incredibly important. You are trusting an agency, a surrogate, a fertility clinic, attorneys, insurance professionals, escrow, and a process that can feel overwhelming before it even begins.
Our role is to help make that process feel clearer and more supported.
We believe intended parents deserve more than cheerful promises. You deserve realistic expectations, thoughtful guidance, careful coordination, and a team that will tell you the truth, even when the answer is not the easiest one.
At Love & Kindness, we believe trust is built through honesty, consistency, and care.
What makes our intended parent program different
Personal support, real experience, and a team that stays close.
Many agencies can sound supportive during a consultation. What matters more is how your agency shows up after you begin, after you match, and especially when the journey becomes complicated.
Love & Kindness was not built around becoming the biggest agency or taking on the highest number of cases possible. Our decisions are guided by what feels right, ethical, and fair for the people in front of us, while keeping the agency sustainable enough to continue doing this work well.
That is why our size is intentional.
We keep our caseload intentionally small because we want each journey to be known, not just managed. Day to day, intended parents are supported by our case management team. At the same time, our founder remains close enough to every journey to understand where things stand, what is going well, and what may need extra care.
When something becomes complicated, sensitive, or outside the usual path, you are not being passed through layers of people who do not know your case. Our founder remains close enough to help guide the next steps with care and expertise.
That matters to us. We do not want Love & Kindness to become so large that important decisions are made far away from the people actually living the journey.
Candid guidance, not sales-driven advice
You should be able to trust what your agency tells you.
At Love & Kindness, we believe intended parents should feel safe asking questions and safe receiving honest answers.
We believe guidance should be candid, not sales driven. If a recommendation benefits the agency financially, we believe in saying that plainly so you can consider our guidance with that context.
Trust matters too much in surrogacy for people to feel pushed, rushed, or kept in the dark.
We are human, and no agency can promise that every journey will be perfect. But we can promise that we will try our best by you, communicate with you, and care about doing the right thing through every step of the process.
We help carry the weight of the process.
Surrogacy involves many professionals: fertility clinics, attorneys, insurance brokers, escrow companies, mental health professionals, hospitals, and sometimes consulates or passport offices.
We do not expect intended parents to figure all of that out alone.
Once you decide that Love & Kindness is your agency, we want you to feel like you can take a breath. Every question you have, ask us. Every step that needs your attention, we will guide you.
When it is time to make a decision, choose a professional, review an option, or prepare for the next stage, we will help you understand what matters and what can wait. For example, we may let you know when it is time to select your surrogacy attorney, what to consider, and which experienced professionals may be a good fit.
Our role is to help coordinate the moving pieces, connect you with experienced professionals, and keep the process organized so you are not constantly wondering, “What am I missing?”
You will still make the important decisions. But you should not have to carry the entire mental load of managing the journey by yourself.
We want intended parents to have room to focus on building a good relationship with their surrogate, preparing for their baby, planning for time away from work, and getting ready for parenthood.
Important things to know before you begin
No agency fee just to join our waiting list.
To join our waiting list, intended parents complete an intended parent questionnaire. That is all we require at that stage.
No agency agreement. No agency fee. No payment just to wait.
We believe this is the fairest way to begin. If you are able to find a surrogate faster through another agency, we are genuinely happy for you. Our goal is not to lock intended parents into waiting with us. Our goal is to help, and we take that responsibility seriously.
No agency fee before an official match.
We do not ask intended parents to pay an agency fee before there is a real potential match.
Before Love & Kindness asks intended parents to sign our agency agreement and make the first escrow deposit, several steps have already happened.
You and the surrogate have reviewed each other’s profiles. You have completed a match call. Both sides have agreed that they would like to move forward together. We have sent the surrogate’s available records to your fertility clinic, and your clinic has approved her records to proceed on paper.
This happens before the in-person medical screening at the fertility clinic.
We do this because intended parents deserve to know there is a real, mutual, clinic-reviewed potential match before making a major financial commitment to the agency.
Surrogacy timelines can vary
Some journeys move quickly. Some take much longer than anyone hoped.
We have seen journeys move from match to delivery in a little over a year. We have also seen journeys take several years because of medical, legal, embryo, matching, pregnancy, or personal circumstances.
We will never promise a timeline we cannot control. What we can do is help you understand what may affect your timeline, what steps are currently moving, and what options may be available if the journey changes.
Our Approach
Organized enough to guide the details. Human enough to care about the people.
Surrogacy has many moving parts: screening, medical appointments, legal coordination, insurance review, escrow, pregnancy support, birth planning, and postpartum care.
But behind every step is something much bigger.
This is your future child. Your hope. Your investment. Your family.
Our approach is both organized and human. We help coordinate the details, but we never want this to feel like a cold transaction. You should know what is happening, what the next step is, and who is helping you move forward.
We guide intended parents with clear communication, realistic expectations, and steady support from the first conversation through birth and beyond.
We know this industry deeply.
Love & Kindness was created after years of working closely with intended parents, surrogates, fertility clinics, attorneys, and agencies across the United States.
Before opening our agency, our founder had already worked alongside hundreds of surrogacy journeys and had seen the difference between agencies that are organized, ethical, and caring, and agencies that can cause real stress when communication, judgment, or values are lacking.
That experience shaped the way Love & Kindness operates today.
We understand the practical side of surrogacy, but we also understand the emotional weight of it. Our team knows that this is not just a process. It is someone’s child, someone’s body, someone’s family, and someone’s future.
What the surrogacy process can look like
Every journey is unique, but most intended parents move through these general stages:
1. Consultation
We begin with a conversation. We want to understand your story, your embryos or fertility clinic status, your timeline, your budget, and what matters most to you in a surrogacy journey.
This is also your time to ask questions. We will explain how our agency works, what you can expect, and what we believe you should think through before moving forward.
2. Intended Parent Questionnaire and Waiting List
If you would like to be considered for a future surrogate match, you complete our intended parent questionnaire.
At this stage, there is no agency agreement and no agency fee. The questionnaire helps us understand your situation, preferences, clinic status, and what kind of journey may be the right fit.
3. Surrogate Candidate Review
When there is a potential surrogate candidate, we share information so both sides can decide whether they would like to explore the match further.
4. Match Call
If both sides are interested, we schedule a match call by video. This gives intended parents and the surrogate a chance to meet, ask questions, and decide whether everyone feels comfortable moving forward.
5. Clinic Record Review
After both sides agree to move forward, we send the surrogate’s available records to your fertility clinic for review. Your clinic will decide whether she is approved on paper to proceed to medical screening.
6. Agency Agreement and First Escrow Funding
Once there is a mutual match and your clinic has approved the surrogate’s records to proceed, we then ask intended parents to sign the agency agreement and make the first escrow deposit.
7. Medical and Psychological Screening
The surrogate completes the required screening steps. This may include psychological screening, background checks, fertility clinic medical screening, lab work, ultrasound, or other case-specific requirements.
8. Surrogacy Contract and Legal Clearance
Once screening is complete and medical clearance is issued, attorneys prepare and review the surrogacy agreement between the intended parents and the surrogate.
This contract is completed before embryo transfer. It outlines the rights, responsibilities, expectations, and agreements between the parties. Once the legal process is complete, the fertility clinic receives legal clearance to move forward.
9. Embryo Transfer
10. Pregnancy Support
Once pregnancy is confirmed, we continue supporting both intended parents and the surrogate. We help keep communication clear, coordinate updates, and support the relationship as the pregnancy progresses.
11. Parental Rights Establishment
During pregnancy, attorneys will guide the parentage process so the intended parents can be legally recognized as the baby’s parents. In many states, this involves a pre-birth order, while other states may require a different or post-birth process.
We help coordinate with the attorneys so you understand what is happening and what to expect before delivery. You can also review our Surrogacy Law Map for a general overview of how surrogacy laws vary by state.
12. Birth Planning
As delivery approaches, we help coordinate the birth plan with the surrogate, intended parents, hospital, attorneys, and other involved professionals. The goal is for everyone to understand the plan as clearly as possible before the big day arrives.
13. Birth and Postpartum
When your baby is born, our team remains involved to support the final steps of the journey. This may include birth certificate coordination, postpartum support, hospital communication, and travel document guidance for international intended parents when applicable.
Costs and financial planning
Clearer expectations from the beginning.
Surrogacy is a major financial commitment, and intended parents deserve to understand the possible costs before moving forward.
We will help you think through agency fees, surrogate compensation, screening costs, legal fees, escrow, insurance, medical expenses, travel, and other case-specific expenses that may apply.
No cost estimate can predict every possible scenario, but we believe in giving intended parents a realistic picture instead of making the journey sound simpler or cheaper than it may be.
Our estimated cost sheet is provided as an estimate only, not a guarantee of prices. It is meant to help intended parents understand the major categories involved and how funding is typically staged throughout the journey.
Begin your journey with Love & Kindness.
Whether you are hoping to grow your family or considering becoming a surrogate, we would be honored to learn more about you.
Surrogacy is a big journey. You deserve a team that will treat it with care.