How to Choose The Best Surrogacy Agency For You: What Surrogates Need to Know Before Signing

Nascency · Surrogate Resource Guide · 2026

The questions no one tells you to ask — and the answers that actually matter. Written by a surrogate advocate and paralegal who has seen this industry from the inside.

By  Casey Oakley, Surrogate Advocate & Paralegal, Nascency

There are hundreds of surrogacy agencies in the United States. They range from well-established boutique practices with decades of experience to recently-formed operations with a polished website and not much else behind it. Choosing the wrong one doesn’t just affect your experience — it can affect your legal protection, your compensation, your medical care, and your emotional support throughout one of the most significant experiences of your life. 

I’m Casey. I’m a surrogate advocate and paralegal at Nascency. I’m writing this guide because I believe surrogates deserve to make informed choices — including the choice to work with an agency other than us, if that’s genuinely the better fit. The agencies that are worth working with will welcome this guide. The ones that aren’t will be uncomfortable with it.

What’s in This Guide

1. Who Is Actually Behind the Agency
2. Ownership and Financial Arrangements
3. Communication: How They Actually Show Up
4. Screening — What Happens Before You Meet an Intended Family
5. How the Agency Vets Intended Families
6. Matching Quality: Fit vs. First-on-the-List
7. Your Surrogate Profile: What It Tells You About Them
8. Compensation and Benefits — What to Expect
9. Life Insurance: The Minimum That Isn’t Negotiable
10. Birth, Perinatal, and Postpartum Support
11. Legal Representation and Financial Arrangements
12. Credentials: What to Ask Beyond Membership
13. The Non-Negotiables
14. Frequently Asked Questions

Part 1: Who Is Actually Behind the Surrogacy Agency

Before you get on a call, look at who the agency says they are. Not the mission statement — the actual people. Are team members named? Do they have real bios? Can you find them?

This matters more than it sounds. An agency whose team is unnamed or unverifiable has made a choice to be opaque — and there’s rarely a good reason for it. You’re about to trust these people with one of the most personal experiences of your life. You should be able to know who they are.

What to Look For in the Team

• Named, real people with verifiable backgrounds. Look them up. Do they exist on LinkedIn? Do their backgrounds check out?
• Years of experience specifically in fertility and third-party reproduction. Not general healthcare, not business operations — direct experience working in this field. Ask how long each person on your journey team has worked in reproductive health and third-party reproduction specifically.
• Direct clinical or legal experience. The most effective advocates have worked inside fertility clinics, egg banks, or reproductive law firms — not just managed surrogacy administratively. That firsthand experience changes how they navigate the medical and legal landscape on your behalf.
• Surrogates on the team. Ask whether any team members have been surrogates themselves. When your advocate has personal experience with the journey, their support comes from a different place — they’re not interpreting what you’re going through, they’ve lived it.
• Multiple perspectives represented. A team that brings together clinical backgrounds, legal backgrounds, and lived experience as surrogates or intended families is equipped to support you in a more complete way than a team built from a single background.

• RED FLAG: No named team members, no verifiable bios, or team pages that list titles without any actual background information.
• GREEN FLAG: Named people with specific, verifiable experience in reproductive health and third-party reproduction — and ideally, team members who have been surrogates themselves.

Casey’s Take

When you meet your advocate team, pay attention to the range of perspectives in the room. Someone who has worked at a fertility clinic understands what a monitoring appointment actually feels like from the inside. Someone who has been a surrogate understands what it’s like to tell your kids you’re carrying a baby for someone else. Someone with a legal background can read your contract and tell you what a clause actually means. You want all of those people in your corner — and the best agencies have built teams that way deliberately.

Part 2: Ownership and Financial Arrangements — Ask Directly

The surrogacy industry has seen increasing acquisition by private equity firms and fertility companies in recent years. This isn’t automatically disqualifying — but it warrants transparency. Who owns the agency you’re considering, and does their ownership create interests that might not align with yours?

Questions to Ask

• Who owns this agency? Is it independently owned, or backed by a private equity or other invest firm or fertility company?
• If there is outside ownership, is it disclosed — and who is it?
• Does ownership have any relationship with fertility clinics, legal firms, escrow companies, insurance providers, or mental health vendors?
• Are there any financial arrangements — referral fees, revenue sharing — between the agency and any vendors they recommend?

• RED FLAG: Ownership hidden or financial arrangements with recommended vendors that are undisclosed. An agency that can’t or won’t answer who owns it.
• GREEN FLAG: Clear, disclosed ownership. Full transparency about any financial arrangements with vendors. Freedom to choose your own legal, escrow, and insurance providers without pressure.

Casey’s Take

You deserve to know if the agency recommending a particular attorney, escrow company, or mental health provider has a financial relationship with that vendor. That relationship doesn’t mean the recommendation is bad — but it should be disclosed so you can evaluate it. Undisclosed financial arrangements are a conflict of interest, full stop. Ask specifically about legal firms: there should be no financial arrangement between your surrogacy agency and the law firm representing you. Those need to be fully independent.

Part 3: Communication — How They Actually Show Up

Communication quality during a surrogacy journey matters enormously. You will have questions at 9pm. You will need reassurance after an appointment. You will have moments where you need someone to pick up. The way an agency communicates with you before you sign is a preview of how they’ll communicate when it counts.

Questions to Ask

• Do you communicate primarily by text, email, or a portal?
• What is your typical response time?
• Will I have a direct number for my advocate — or do I go through a general line?
• What happens if my advocate is unavailable? Who covers, and how quickly?
• How often will I hear from you proactively — not just when I reach out?

• RED FLAG: Communication routed through a portal or ticketing system. Response times measured in business days. No direct line to your advocate. Proactive check-ins described vaguely as “whenever you need us.”
• GREEN FLAG: Text as a primary communication channel. A direct line to your named advocate. Response times measured in hours. Proactive outreach built into the process — especially before and after appointments.

Casey’s Take

At Nascency, text is our primary communication channel and we average under six hours on response time. That’s not an accident — it’s a deliberate choice, because surrogacy doesn’t happen between 9 and 5. You should feel like you can reach your advocate. Not like you’re submitting a ticket and waiting. Ask for specifics, and if their answer is vague, that’s the answer.

“Green flag: your agency reaches out and they don’t need anything from you. It’s just to check in.”

Part 4: Screening — What Happens Before You Meet an Intended Family

How an agency screens surrogates tells you a great deal about how seriously they take both you and the families you’ll be matched with — and about how well they’ll actually know you when it matters.

Ask specifically:

• What does your screening process include before a surrogate’s profile is shared with intended families?
• Do you complete background checks, psychological screening, and medical records review before presenting a surrogate?
• Is your screening done in-house, or do you use third-party recruiting or screening companies?
• How many people interview a surrogate candidate, and how many times, before they’re approved?

• RED FLAG: Profiles shared before background check, psychological evaluation, and medical records are fully complete. Surrogate sourcing outsourced to third-party recruiting companies — which means the agency may not know the people in their pool.
• GREEN FLAG: Full screening complete before any profile is shared. Multiple in-house interviews by agency team members over time — not just a single intake call. Psychological evaluation by an independently licensed mental health professional.

Casey’s Take

This matters for you as much as it matters for intended families. When an agency knows their surrogates through multiple conversations over time — and uses additional tools to understand how you communicate, how you handle uncertainty, what you need from a support relationship — they’re in a far better position to find you a family that’s actually right for you. When surrogates are sourced from third-party recruiting platforms, you may be a profile to the agency rather than a person they know. Ask how they got to know you — and listen to the specificity of the answer.

Part 5: How the Surrogacy Agency Vets Intended Families

Most surrogacy content focuses on how surrogates are screened. But a question surrogates rarely think to ask is: how does the agency evaluate the intended families in their program?

You are entering a relationship with these people. You will carry their child. The agency is not just finding you a match — they should be ensuring that the families they work with are good partners for their surrogates.

What to Ask

• Do you meet intended families in person, or speak with them directly before accepting them into your program?
• What is your process for evaluating whether an intended family is a good partner for a surrogate?
• Do intended families go through background checks?
• Have you ever declined to work with an intended family? What would cause that?
• Who conducts your conversations with intended families — is that done in-house?

• RED FLAG: Intended families accepted without direct conversation or evaluation. No background check process for intended families. The agency’s relationship with intended families described primarily in terms of serving their needs, with no mention of ensuring they’re good partners for surrogates.
• GREEN FLAG: Direct conversations with intended families conducted by the agency team, in-house. A clear process for evaluating fit — and a willingness to decline families who aren’t right. Background checks on intended families. An agency that talks about the surrogate-intended family relationship as a two-way partnership.

Casey’s Take

At Nascency, we meet and speak with every intended family directly — and we ask ourselves whether we’d feel good about a surrogate we care about working with this family. If we don’t get a good feeling, we don’t move forward with them. We don’t outsource that conversation. That matters because the match isn’t just about medical compatibility and paperwork — it’s about the people. You should feel confident that the agency has actually looked at both sides of the equation.

Part 6: Matching Quality — Fit vs. First-on-the-List

This is one of the most important and least-discussed differences between agencies. How a match is made determines a great deal about your journey.

Agencies with large intended family waitlists face a structural pressure: families who have been waiting longest expect to be matched next. That obligation makes it difficult to match based on genuine fit — because “who’s been waiting longest” and “who is actually right for this surrogate” are often different answers.

What to Ask

• How do you determine which intended family to introduce me to? Is it based on fit, or on how long they’ve been waiting?
• How many intended families are currently in your program waiting to be matched?
• Can I decline a potential match without penalty, and what happens next?
• What do you actually know about me — beyond my application — when you’re making a match recommendation?
• What tools do you use to assess compatibility beyond medical eligibility?

• RED FLAG: Matching described as presenting profiles in order of the intended family’s wait time. Very large intended family waitlists — the larger the list, the harder it is to match for fit. No described methodology for assessing compatibility beyond basics.
• GREEN FLAG: A genuine compatibility-first matching process. The agency can describe specifically how they’ve gotten to know you and what that knowledge informs about who would be a good match. Tools beyond the application that help them understand who you are and what you need.

Casey’s Take

At Nascency, every surrogate completes a personality assessment specific to surrogacy — not a generic personality test, but one designed to identify what you excel at, what you’re looking for in a journey relationship, and how your style as a surrogate shows up in a match. The result is a surrogate archetype that informs how we match. We link to the archetype quiz because we want surrogates to understand themselves before they even apply — and because that insight shapes every match conversation we have. That’s not the only tool we use, but it’s one example of taking compatibility seriously rather than just going down a waitlist.

Part 7: Your Surrogate Profile — What It Tells You About Them

Before you commit to an agency, ask to see your surrogate profile — the profile that will be shared with intended families on your behalf.

What’s in it, and how it’s presented, tells you more about how the agency sees you than almost anything else.

• RED FLAG: A profile that reads like a medical checklist — age, BMI, number of prior pregnancies, health history — with little or no sense of who you are as a person. This kind of profile signals that you’re a number to the agency, not a person they know.
• GREEN FLAG: A profile that reflects nuance — your motivations, your communication style, your family, what you’re looking for in a journey, and insight from any assessments or conversations the agency has had with you. You should recognize yourself in it. And you should be given the opportunity to review it, confirm it’s accurate, and ask questions about anything you’d want changed.

Casey’s Take

At Nascency, surrogates receive their full profile — including background from our personality and archetype assessment — before it’s shared with anyone. We want you to see what intended families will see, confirm it’s accurate and complete, and feel good about it. The profile is ultimately a reflection of what the agency values. If it’s rich, nuanced, and feels like you — they’ve done the work to know you. If it’s a rap sheet of medical data, that tells you something too.

Part 8: Compensation and Benefits — What to Expect

Before you commit to any agency, ask to see the full compensation and benefits structure in writing — not a summary, the actual document. A reputable agency will share this before you’ve signed anything.

Base Compensation

Base compensation is negotiated individually based on your experience, location, and journey specifics. Nationally, first-time surrogates typically see base compensation in the range of $30,000–$45,000; experienced surrogates often negotiate $40,000–$60,000 or more. Any agency quoting a flat rate without knowing your background isn’t being fully transparent.

The Benefits Package: What Should Be There

The benefits package is paid on top of base compensation and should cover you at every stage of the journey — not just delivery. Here’s what a comprehensive package includes:

Medical Clearance Payment

Covers lost wages, childcare, and travel during your screening trip. Should be paid after clearance, not after delivery.

Legal Clearance Payment

Issued after you sign your Gestational Surrogacy Agreement. Acknowledges the time and effort of the legal process.

Monthly Non-Accountable Allowance

A monthly stipend with no receipts required — for vitamins, over-the-counter needs, fuel, childcare for local trips, and day-to-day surrogacy costs. Should run from legal clearance through one month postpartum.

Injection Medication Start

Per transfer cycle, including mock cycles. Recognizes the physical commitment of beginning protocol.

Embryo Transfer Payment

Per transfer, regardless of number of embryos. Should cover lost wages, childcare, and bed rest up to 3 days.

Maternity Clothing

Auto-disbursed at Week 13. Should require no receipts — it’s yours to spend as you need it.

Housekeeping & Childcare Allowance

Non-accountable monthly payment beginning at Week 20 through one month postpartum. Acknowledges that pregnancy affects your capacity to manage your normal household responsibilities.

C-Section Payment

A meaningful payment for what is major abdominal surgery. Should be paid within two weeks of delivery — not tied to later milestones.

Covered Benefits That Should Not Be Optional

• Independent attorney fees — fully paid by the intended family, representing only you
• Life insurance — see the section below; the minimum and timing matter
• Mental health support — pre-transfer session, one session per trimester, and at least three dedicated postpartum sessions with a licensed professional
• Birth Support Program — individualized birth preparation, hospital planning, lactation resources, and postpartum guidance
• Perinatal support benefit — pelvic floor therapy, prenatal massage, acupuncture, chiropractic care, nutrition support, and lactation consultation
• Doula support — with a trained or certified doula
• Surrogate community support — a real peer community, not just an open Facebook group

Protections That Should Be in Writing

• Bed rest compensation for physician-ordered bed rest
• Compensation protection if the journey ends before delivery, at every gestational stage
• Payments for invasive procedures — hysteroscopy, amniocentesis, cerclage, and similar
• Pumping compensation if you choose to provide breast milk
• A dropped cycle payment if the IVF clinic cancels a transfer through no fault of yours

Casey’s Take

Ask to see the benefits document before you apply — not after. A reputable agency hands it over without hesitation. Read what’s non-accountable versus what requires receipts. Look at when payments are triggered and disbursed. The specificity of a benefits package tells you whether an agency has done this enough times to know what surrogates actually need at each stage — or whether the package was designed primarily to look good on a comparison chart.

Part 9: Life Insurance — The Surrogacy Agency Minimum That Isn’t Negotiable

Life insurance is one of the most important protections in your surrogacy journey — and one of the most commonly under-specified. The coverage amount matters, and the timing matters.

What You Need to Know Before Any Protocol Begins

Minimum coverage: $750,000. This is the floor at reputable agencies, not the ceiling. At Nascency, we require a minimum $750,000 life insurance policy for every surrogate and often recommend $1,000,000 in coverage. This policy is paid for by the intended family.

Timing is everything. This policy must be in place before any surrogacy-related medical protocol begins — before injectable medications, before mock cycles, before transfer preparation. Do not begin any protocol without written confirmation that your policy is active.

Ask specifically: What is your minimum? Who obtains the policy and by when? What happens if a cycle begins before the policy is confirmed in writing?

• RED FLAG: No stated life insurance minimum, a minimum below $750,000, vague language about “as required by the contract,” or no defined timeline for when the policy must be in place.
• GREEN FLAG: A clearly stated minimum of $750,000 or higher, documented in the benefits package, with a hard requirement that the policy be active before any medical protocol begins.

Part 10: Birth, Perinatal, and Postpartum Support

Here’s something that often goes unsaid: getting pregnant is the part of surrogacy with the most institutional support behind it. You have a fertility clinic, reproductive endocrinologists, monitoring appointments, and a full medical team focused on that goal.

What is far less consistently supported — and where the real differences between agencies emerge — is everything that happens during the pregnancy and after: birth preparation, physical recovery, perinatal care, and the emotional transition out of the journey. This is where to ask your hardest questions.

Ask About Birth Support Specifically

• Do you have a named Birth Support Program? What does it include?
• Does birth preparation begin during pregnancy, or only close to delivery?
• Is there a resource for making informed decisions and understanding my rights during labor and delivery?
• What support is available if I want to pump breast milk for the intended family?

Ask About Perinatal Support During Pregnancy

• Is perinatal support — pelvic floor therapy, prenatal massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, nutrition, lactation — covered as a standard benefit?
• Is this a defined covered amount, or something I have to request and justify each time?

Ask About Postpartum Support

• What does postpartum support look like — specifically? Walk me through it step by step.
• Are there defined mental health sessions after delivery, or is it “available if you need it”?
• How long does your support continue after I deliver?
• Who checks in with me, and when?

• RED FLAG: “We’re here if you need us.” No named birth program. Perinatal support described as optional or case-by-case. Postpartum mental health sessions vague or absent. Support that effectively ends when the baby is born.
• GREEN FLAG: A named Birth Support Program with described components. Perinatal support as a defined covered benefit during pregnancy. Postpartum mental health sessions at specific intervals — minimum 1-3 weeks, 6 weeks, and 3 months after delivery. A community or peer support group that continues through the journey.

Casey’s Take

Nascency’s Birth Support Program includes individualized virtual birth preparation, a curated resource workbook covering birth preferences, hospital policies, and travel checklists, plus on-demand videos and live office hours. The Perinatal Support Benefit covers up to $2,000 for pelvic floor therapy, prenatal massage, acupuncture, chiropractic care, nutrition support, and lactation consultation. Three dedicated postpartum mental health sessions — at 1-3 weeks, 6 weeks, and 3 months — focus on healing, hormonal changes, closure, and long-term wellbeing. And the Surrogate Circle, our peer community, exists so you’re never navigating any of this alone.

I describe Nascency’s program not to sell it, but because it’s a concrete benchmark. If another agency can describe something comparable in specific terms, that’s genuinely meaningful. If their answer is “we’re available for whatever you need” — keep asking.

Part 11: Legal Representation and Financial Arrangements

Independent Legal Representation

Your independent reproductive law attorney reviews the Gestational Surrogacy Agreement on your behalf alone, explains every clause, and negotiates terms for you. This attorney should never be shared with or suggested by the intended family — and the intended family pays for them entirely.

• RED FLAG: Any suggestion that you can share an attorney with the intended family, or that legal review isn’t necessary. An agency that has a financial referral arrangement with the law firm they recommend for surrogates — these must be fully independent.
• GREEN FLAG: Clear statement that the intended family pays for your independent counsel, you are represented separately, and the agency has no financial arrangement with the legal firm.

Escrow: Who Holds Your Compensation

Your compensation should be held in escrow by an independent third-party company — not the agency and not the intended family — and disbursed according to your signed GCA.

• RED FLAG: The agency holds surrogate compensation funds themselves rather than using a named, independent escrow company.
• GREEN FLAG: A named, independent escrow company referenced explicitly in your GCA, with a clear disbursement schedule you can read before signing.

Casey’s Take

Escrow means you never have to chase anyone for what you’re owed. Payments go from a neutral third party to you, according to the schedule in your contract — professional, documented, and not dependent on anyone’s goodwill. It also preserves the relationship. You should not have to ask the intended parents for reimbursement while simultaneously trying to maintain a warm and trusting partnership with them.

Part 12: Credentials — What to Ask Beyond Membership

Professional affiliations are a starting point, not a conclusion. The follow-up questions matter more than the membership listing.

SEEDS and ASRM: Ask Deeper

• How long have you been an ASRM member? (Ten-plus years signals sustained commitment; a recent join signals a checkbox.)
• Do you regularly attend ASRM educational seminars to stay current on best practices in third-party reproduction?
• Do you hold any leadership positions — serving on standards committees, contributing to policy development?

Casey’s Take

The difference between listing SEEDS membership and serving on the SEEDS Standards Committee is significant. One says “we applied.” The other says “we help set the standards other agencies are held to.” Ask the follow-up questions.

Regulatory Credentials

Some agencies hold state-level regulatory credentials — like a New York Tissue License — that reflect formal oversight requirements. These signal a willingness to operate under external scrutiny, which matters when you’re choosing someone to trust with this journey.

The Team Question Agencies Rarely Get Asked

Return to the team question: what formal education and professional experience do the people supporting you actually have? Experience working in fertility clinics, reproductive law, or egg banking — combined with a team that includes people who have been surrogates themselves — is a meaningful differentiator that rarely shows up in agency marketing but makes an enormous difference in practice.

Part 13: The Surrogacy Agency Non-Negotiables

If an agency can’t deliver on any of these, keep looking.

Before You Sign Anything, Confirm:

• Named, verifiable team members with backgrounds you can check
• Disclosed ownership — no unnamed parent company or undisclosed private equity backing
• No financial arrangements between the agency and legal, escrow, or mental health vendors
• Written, itemized benefits package provided before you apply — not after
• Life insurance minimum of $750,000 — active before any medical protocol begins
• Independent legal representation — paid for by the intended family, representing only you
• Named, third-party escrow company holding your compensation funds
• A dedicated primary advocate — the same person, from application through postpartum
• Text-based communication with sub-six-hour response times (or a comparable standard)
• Full screening of both you and intended families completed in-house before any match
• A named Birth Support Program with described components
• Perinatal support as a defined covered benefit during pregnancy
• Postpartum mental health sessions at defined intervals
• The ability to review your full surrogate profile before it’s shared with anyone
• The ability to speak with a past surrogate before you commit
• Active SEEDS or ASRM membership — with meaningful participation, not just a listing

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I choose the right surrogacy agency as a surrogate?

Evaluate agencies on: whether the team is named and visible with real reproductive health backgrounds, transparent ownership and no undisclosed financial arrangements, a dedicated advocate who stays with you from application through postpartum, written compensation and benefits before you apply, life insurance minimum of $750,000, meaningful birth and postpartum support, and genuine matching quality — not first-on-the-list. Ask to see your surrogate profile before committing and confirm it reflects a whole person rather than a checklist.

What benefits should a surrogate expect from a reputable agency?

Beyond base compensation (typically $30,000–$60,000+ depending on experience and location), a reputable agency provides a structured benefits package including medical and legal clearance payments, a monthly non-accountable allowance, embryo transfer and injection start payments, maternity clothing, and housekeeping and childcare support from mid-pregnancy onward. Covered benefits must include independent attorney fees, life insurance (minimum $750,000), mental health support with dedicated postpartum sessions, a birth support program, and perinatal support covering pelvic floor therapy, prenatal massage, doula support, and lactation consultation.

How much life insurance should a surrogate receive?

A minimum $750,000 life insurance policy is standard at reputable agencies. Many agencies, including Nascency, recommend $1,000,000 in coverage. This policy is paid for by the intended family and must be active before any surrogacy-related medical protocol begins.

What are red flags when choosing a surrogacy agency as a surrogate?

Major red flags: unnamed or unverifiable team members, undisclosed ownership or private equity backing, compensation details withheld until after you apply, no stated life insurance minimum, screening outsourced to third-party companies, postpartum support vague or absent, no independent legal representation, agency holds compensation funds rather than escrow, and unwillingness to connect you with a past surrogate.

What should I ask about communication before choosing a surrogacy agency?

Ask: Do you communicate primarily by text, email, or a portal? What is your typical response time? Will I have a direct number for my advocate? What happens if my advocate is unavailable? Look for agencies that use text as a primary channel and respond within hours — because surrogacy doesn’t happen between 9 and 5.

How does matching quality differ between surrogacy agencies?

Agencies with large intended family waitlists often match by order — not fit. They have an obligation to families who’ve been waiting longest, which means you may not be matched based on genuine compatibility. Ask how the agency gets to know you before matching, what tools they use beyond your application, and whether you’ll see your surrogate profile before it’s shared. A profile that reflects nuance signals an agency that values fit.

What postpartum support should a surrogacy agency provide?

Defined mental health sessions at 3 weeks, 6 weeks, and 3 months postpartum, recovery guidance for all birth types, emotional support around closure, and continued advocate access. Perinatal support during pregnancy should also be a covered benefit — pelvic floor therapy, prenatal massage, acupuncture, nutrition, lactation consultation.

Does a surrogacy agency need SEEDS or ASRM membership?

Membership is a starting point — ask how long, whether they attend educational seminars regularly, and whether they hold leadership positions. An agency with ten-plus years of ASRM membership that actively serves on industry standards committees signals a different level of commitment than one that joined recently.

Should I be able to see my surrogate profile before it’s shared with intended families?

Yes — and if an agency won’t show it to you, ask why. Your profile is what represents you to the families you might carry for. You should be able to review it, confirm it’s accurate, and know what it says about you. A profile rich in nuance — including insight from any assessments or conversations — signals an agency that sees you as a whole person. A medical checklist signals you’re a number.

Ready to find out if Nascency is the right fit?

Start with our surrogate archetype quiz — it takes five minutes and gives you insight into your surrogacy strengths, what you’re looking for in a journey, and how we’d approach finding your best match.

Take the Qualification Quiz → note: Nascency’s qualification quiz shares A LOT on the surrogacy journey and qualifications for surrogacy as well.

Take the Archetype Quiz → learn more about your personality and how that might impact your ideal intended family match