Surrogacy in the U.S.A. is permitted in most states, and is open to anyone, including single men and same-sex couples.  In the U.S.A., we offer four main Guarantee Plans meant to accommodate a range of budgets and preferences.  Each Guarantee Plan provides IPs an efficient, comprehensive path towards family formation without ever compromising safety or value.  In addition to our Guarantee Plans, we offer a fixed-cost or “Pay-As-You-Go” Plan.  This plan is meant primarily for IPs who have already created embryos, and who only require a surrogate.  With all of our U.S.A. plans, we provide IPs expert, compassionate support every step of the way, from first consultation to the delivery of their baby—and beyond.

Western Fertility Institute (WFI),
Los Angeles, U.S.A.

WFI Ranked #1 for IVF success rates by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and #1 in California for IVF success rates for women under 35 and women between 35-37.

Dr. Ashim Kumar, M.D.
Medical Director

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The California Center for Reproductive Health (CCRH)

Dr. Eliran Mor, M.D.
Medical Director

Our American surrogates—or gestational carriers (GCs)—are U.S. citizens, living wherever surrogacy is permitted.  Before they might be accepted into our program, the American GCs undergo a rigorous screening process, including importantly an evaluation of their reasons for wanting to be a GC.  In addition to their economic motivations, the GCs must be genuinely altruistic in their desire to help IPs; and they must also have had at least one healthy baby derived from a successful pregnancy before they can even be screened.  Once matched with IPs, a GC will undergo additional medical screening to receive clearance for the pregnancy.  She then travels to Los Angeles for the embryo transfer, which is performed at either the Western Fertility Institue (WFI) or the California Center for Reproductive Health (CCRH), our partner clinics in the U.S.A.  For the duration of the pregnancy, the GC lives at home with her own family, maintaining her normal routines.  During the first trimester of the pregnancy, the GC is medically monitored by either by WFI’s Clinic Director, Dr. Ashim Kumar, M.D., or by CCRH’s Clinic Director, Dr. Eliran Mor, M.D., depending on where the embryo transfer was performed.  Practically, this means that medical orders for the first trimester will be sent either from WFI or CCRH to the GC’s own OB-GYN.  Once the first-trimester passes, the GC will be released wholly into the care of her own OB-GYN.  She will continue to undergo all customary pre-natal evaluations, ultrasounds and any other recommended tests or procedures to ensure that her pregnancy is progressing normally. Delivery will take place at an appropriate hospital wherever the GC lives.

In the U.S.A., Tammuz Family offers IPs a wide choice of anonymous egg donors from our American and South African egg-donor databases. All the donors have been thoroughly screened, both medically and psychologically. Their profiles provide detailed information about their overall genetic makeup, their medical histories (both their own and their families’), their educational and employment experiences, and their personal interests and hobbies. Also included in a donor’s profile are her current photographs; and some donors are willing to meet IPs (usually via Skype)—but only in these cases if the IPs are looking to do so. Depending on which of our U.S.A. plans IPs select, egg donation can be either fresh or frozen.

In many U.S. states, IPs are able before their baby is born to file a Pre-Birth Order (PBO), which places them on their baby’s birth certificate immediately after delivery.  In a few states, it may take a bit more time post-delivery to put the IPs on their baby’s birth certificate.  In both cases, our highly experienced legal team will work to ensure that the IPs are put on their baby’s birth certificate  according to the surrogacy protocols of the state where their GC lives.