Can I be a Surrogate if I had Gestational Diabetes?
What are the Requirements? Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that happens for the first time when you are pregnant. The high blood sugar levels appear in the second and third trimesters and typically disappear after birth. Rates of gestational diabetes have been going up in the United States. In 2021, the percentage of […]
BMI Importance
Surrogate Requirements – Why is BMI so Important? As a surrogacy agency, it is very difficult to turn away an otherwise amazing qualified and giving surrogate because her BMI is outside of the acceptable range. This is especially difficult if the surrogate candidate has had her own healthy full-term pregnancies in the past. And of […]
Surrogacy After Abortion
Can I be a Surrogate After an Abortion? We are at times asked if a prior abortion disqualifies a woman from becoming a surrogate. The short answer is absolutely not, having an abortion should not impact a woman’s ability to get pregnant at a later time. A woman can still be a surrogate candidate if […]
Surrogacy and the COVID Vaccine
Important Things to Consider In May, we reached a significant milestone in the COVID epidemic. It’s the fourth summer living with COVID-19 but with a welcome reduction in the number of new cases and hospitalizations. On May 5, the World Health Organization formally declared that COVID-19 was no longer a global health emergency. And on May […]
