Surrogacy For Gay Men

Surrogacy for Gay Men

Gay men have unique needs and opportunities when seeking parenthood. At Pinnacle Surrogacy, we are distinctively qualified to serve the gay community given our comprehensive gay surrogacy and egg donation program. We integrate world-class medical care with an in-house egg donor and surrogacy agency. Our patient-sensitive approach allows for highly efficient and confidential cycle coordination and greatly improves the likelihood of a successful surrogate pregnancy for gay men.

Fertility options for gay men

Same-sex family building options for gay men include a variety of options that can be seamlessly managed by our team in-house. With donated eggs, sperm from one or both partners, and a surrogate (the woman who carries the pregnancy), we help patients achieve the dream of parenthood.

Egg donor for gay couples and individuals

At Pinnacle Surrogacy, we offer a comprehensive egg donation program, with our own in-house egg donor agency and frozen donor egg bank. Unlike many outside agencies, egg donors at Pinnacle Surrogacy are pre-screened and ready for their egg donation cycle, which allows immediate matching and timely completion of cycles. Having egg donors medically cleared to donate their eggs also helps avoid disappointment in a situation when a chosen donor fails medical clearance and cannot donate. Many of our egg donors are proven, having undergone prior successful egg donations at Pinnacle. You can view full egg donor profiles in our online egg donor database at your convenience.

Gay surrogacy agency – Pinnacle Surrogacy

At Pinnacle Surrogacy, we also have our own surrogacy agency that supports gay men. Pinnacle Surrogacy houses a nationwide pool of readily available surrogates. With most outside surrogacy agencies, the process of matching a surrogate with the intended parent(s) is the first step in their surrogacy journey. Once matched, the surrogate must still undergo extensive medical and psychological screening and may fail to qualify as a surrogate. This will require the intended parents to start the whole process over.

In contrast, at Pinnacle Surrogacy, we pre-screen all of our surrogacy candidates making sure they are cleared by a Fertility Specialist, a High-Risk Obstetrician and a Psychologist. In addition, a qualified Medical Social Worker conducts a home review to ensure that the living environment of the surrogate is safe and supportive of a pregnancy. Many of our surrogates have completed prior surrogacy journeys and hope to help another couple or individual realize their dream of parenthood again. Throughout this journey, our teams at Pinnacle Surrogacy stay closely engaged with both surrogate and intended parents to help provide a smooth transition from fertility care to obstetric and postpartum care. This integrated approach has been welcomed by many of our gay surrogacy clients who prefer the personal relationship of working with one team rather than a multitude of agencies, doctors and attorneys.

Directed donor screening of father(s)

Since the embryo will ultimately be transferred to a surrogate, the FDA requires that sperm providers be screened for infectious diseases within 7 days of giving sperm. This includes a questionnaire, a physical examination and blood tests for STIs such as Hepatitis, HIV and Syphilis among others. At Pinnacle Surrogacy, we make the directed donor screening process quick and easy by performing all tests at one visit. Sperm frozen within 7 days of performing these tests becomes “qualified” and can be used at any time in the future.

Fertility services for men with HIV

At Pinnacle Surrogacy, we are committed to improving the reproductive care of men with HIV. We continue to investigate the effects of HIV on sperm in hopes of assuring good outcomes and healthy children. You can learn more about our surrogacy services for men with HIV here.

Gay-friendly surrogacy and egg donation agency

With a state-of-the-art fertility clinics and labs, an in-house egg donor program and a surrogacy agency for gay men, our team at Pinnacle Surrogacy has the expertise to make your family-building journey as seamless as possible. If you are ready to start your journey to parenthood, or just have questions and want to speak to someone who can help, contact us or call us at 877 261 0392.

We also encourage you to review our site for information about surrogacy costs, surrogacy success rates and more.

Egg Donation & Surrogacy Process for Gay Men

The process of becoming a father may be more complex if you are a gay man, but it doesn’t have to be complicated. You’ll experience an all-inclusive service in our state-of-the-art fertility clinic, onsite IVF laboratory, an in-house egg donor, and surrogacy programs. With years of success in helping build families for gay patients, you can rest assured you are in the right place.

As a gay man having a child, what exactly happens between calling us and holding your newborn in your arms?

We make the gay surrogacy process easy to understand. Follow the main steps of your journey to parenthood below.

Speak to Our Patient Coordinator

Our patient coordinator will be your initial point of contact in your surrogacy process; she will answer all the questions you may have and guide you through the whole process of becoming a dad. She will assist you with choosing the egg donor and surrogate who meet your needs and requirements best.

Egg donor for gay couples and individuals

Everyone’s path to parenthood is different.

During your consultation, one of our specialist doctors will help you determine what your unique path looks like. Our in-house fertility specialist can speak with you in person or over the telephone and help you determine the next steps of your journey.

Choose Your Egg Donor

Next, you will review our egg donor database. The database contains everything you need to know about our donors, including their medical history, physical traits, and even personal statements from the donors themselves.

After reviewing the database, you will select and secure a donor. We will work with her and plan her donation cycle to retain the number of eggs needed to build your family.

Undergo Directed Donor Screening

Of course, both an egg and sperm are needed to create a baby.

After choosing your egg donor, we will work with you to ensure your sperm is tested and ready for fertilization. This process consists of a questionnaire and a physical exam.

The physical exam will include a blood test to check for any infectious diseases. Your semen will also be analyzed and possibly frozen.

Plan The Egg Donation Cycle

From here, we will assign you a nurse coordinator who will be your main point of contact.

The nurse coordinator will work with both you and the egg donor to plan her egg donation cycle and egg retrieval. You will provide a semen specimen on the day of egg retrieval unless you are using previously frozen semen.

Fertilize The Eggs

After harvesting eggs from your donor, we will fertilize the eggs with your sperm in the lab to create embryos.

Our team can use one or more sources of sperm in the event that both partners want to be biological fathers.

Incubate The Embryos

The embryos will be incubated in the fertility lab to ensure that they are good candidates for implantation. If you wish, our team can also test the eggs for sex and chromosomal normalcy.

Freeze The Embryos

After incubation, our team will freeze the viable embryos to save them for future transfer.

Freezing embryos is not harmful. Frozen embryos will last for years, giving you the flexibility to grow your family on your own timeline. If more than 1 embryo is available, you have the opportunity to have siblings in the future if desired.

Choose a Surrogate

The next step will be to choose your surrogate – the woman who will carry your baby to term.

Our team will help you go through our available surrogate profiles so you can identify your perfect match. We will then arrange a match meeting between you and your surrogate. The match meeting is a great opportunity to get to know each other, ask any questions you both have, and ensure she is the right fit for your surrogacy journey.

Make Legal Agreements

After making and confirming your selection, you will execute the legal agreement with the surrogate.

These documents protect both parties during the pregnancy and will make sure you have legal protection at all times during your surrogacy journey. You have the option of choosing your own attorney or picking from our recommended experienced surrogacy lawyers.

Get Ready For Embryo Transfer

Once the legal agreement is signed, we will work with you and your surrogate to plan her cycle and schedule a date for the embryo transfer.

Follow the Surrogate Pregnancy

After the transfer, you will follow your surrogate’s pregnancy.

The pregnancy will be monitored for the first 10 weeks by our fertility clinic and for the remainder of the pregnancy (and delivery) by the surrogate’s obstetrician.

You will be part of your surrogate’s pregnancy journey. Depending on your agreement with the surrogate and your surrogacy contract, you may be attending her medical appointments, ultrasounds, and getting regular updates all the way to the delivery of your baby.

It All Starts With a Phone Call

If you are ready to take the first step toward parenthood, or if you just have questions about egg donation and the surrogacy process for gay individuals and couples, we have the expertise and experience to help.

Call our surrogacy coordinators at 877 261 0392 or fill out this form to contact us.

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What Our Surrogates Say About Us

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Great and friendly customers service, devoted employees. Dr. Jain is awesome, he explained everything, step by step. I would recommend them to anyone who is planning a family, or willing to help a family.

I have been with Premium Surrogacy for nine months now. I researched many clinics to become a Surrogate and I fell in love with this agency. Dr. Jain answers all your questions and helps you out with any issues. The nurses are very nice and explain everything in detail. It’s great when you can call and they can give answers to questions that may even come up later in the process.

Julie, Lanesha, Gaby, n Patricia are just some of the lovely ladies that walk you through EVERYTHING. I EVEN HAD SOME ISSUES WITH THE SHOTS BUT THE NURSES WALKED ME THROUGH AND MADE SURE I HAD EVERY AVAILABLE resource.

I am now pregnant with twins and can’t wait to do it again.

I have worked with California Premium Surrogacy for the past year. I have just completed my Surrogacy Journey about a week ago. This journey was absolutely flawless. From the beginning, I knew I needed to find an agency that had my best interest in mind. California Premium Surrogacy was that company and clearly the only choice if you are looking to take this journey yourself.

The difference with this agency is that Dr. Jain has two separate sides to his practice, the fertility side, and the surrogacy side. This means that when you are choosing a couple, he is both your doctor AND theirs. He knows all of his patients and is involved in the matching process. His staff is absolutely hands down the best team you will ever meet. They work together very well and they all know you by name. Every one of them is very quick to respond to phone calls and emails and answered all of my questions thoroughly.

Dr. Jain is very knowledgeable and very kind and sweet. He keeps things real and has your health in mind at all times.

They have a really great psychologist named Peggy who is a pro at all things fertility and how that can affect you emotionally she calls periodically to check on you and I will miss her phone calls.

The person I talked with the most is Amber. She is in charge of the surrogates, and if you intend to apply you will get to know her. She has become a friend. She doesn’t make this process feel “Businessy”. She has been a surrogate herself and had great advice and tips for me while I was on this journey. She was never more than a phone call away. Being a surrogate changed my life and it is something I will never forget. It was so rewarding and it is all because of California Premium Surrogacy. I wish I could do it again and again.

If you are looking into becoming a surrogate and want to have a beautiful experience I would 1000% recommend this agency.

I had the best experience with my first surrogacy that I decided to do it again. Amber is amazing. She helped me through the whole process and any time I had questions all I had to do was shoot her a text. Its a wonderful thing to help someone start a family!!

We are so grateful and ecstatic to have our new son in our family. We experience heartbreaking miscarriages and were told we could not have another pregnancy. Our other son wanted a sibling so bad, that he wrote a note to “the storks” asking for a brother or sister to lay with and help take care of. Thanks to Pinnacle Surrogacy, Dr Jain and his wonderful staff, we have been blessed with a beautiful baby boy! We feel that our family is “complete” but we would highly recommend Pinnacle Surrogacy to any family seeking to bring another child into their family. Perhaps it’s not quite “in the usual way” but just as amazing and wonderful. We are forever grateful!

Currently a surrogate working with [Pinnacle Surrogacy] and it is my first journey. I can not express enough how truly incredible this agency is. As a first time surrogate it was incredibly overwhelming starting out, and I had spoke to several agencies. But Pinnacle Surrogacy really stood out to me the advisor I spoke with made my decision to move forward with them so easy. You can tell their advisors really truly care and the majority have been surrogates themselves so its a very personal and understanding experience. Wendy is my advisor and to say she was a God sent is an understatement. Every step of the way each person involved in my journey has been so great. I would 110% recommend Pinnacle Surrogacy if you are considering surrogacy!! I would use them over and over again and would refer them personally without hesitation. This journey so far has been everything I dreamt and more thanks to this incredible team of people!

[Pinnacle Surrogacy] has been amazing to work with. As a first time gestational carrier I am thankful I was able to work with such an amazing team. This experience has been one that I won’t forget. Not only do I get to help bring someones dream of having a family come true, I got to work with a great group of people.

[Pinnacle Surrogacy] is an AMAZING agency!!! Everyone in the office is so helpful and so nice! This is my second time being a surrogate and working with Dr. Jain and his staff and both experiences have been wonderful! Since the agency works hand in hand with Dr. Jain and [Pinnacle Fertility] the screening process and the matching process were so much quicker than with a regular agency! They are able to get you screened and matched with an IP in less time than any other agency I’ve heard of! I would highly recommend anyone interested in becoming a surrogate apply with [Pinnacle Surrogacy]!!!

The entire staff is amazing, with so many moving parts they make the whole process so much easier.

I used [Pinnacle Surrogacy] for my second surrogacy and could not have had a better experience. My first agency was not a great agency and left me really doubting the process and whether or not I could do it again but [Pinnacle Surrogacy] changed my perspective on it all! They truly care about their surrogates and their needs through the process. I received email and phone call checkups from them to make sure I had everything I needed and things were going smoothly. If something wasn’t going as planned they would jump on it right away to fix it. Their agency coordinator was great at understanding my feelings through it all. I HIGHLY recommend this agency!!

Absolutely love [Pinnacle Surrogacy]! I delivered a surrogate baby in July and could not have had a better experience! They exceeded all of my expectations so much that I am currently in the process of doing another journey with them. 🙂 Any questions and concerns are answered ASAP and they always make sure you are comfortable with everything! I will always always always recommend this agency!!

If you are in search of an amazing agency for your Surrogacy please contact [Pinnacle Surrogacy]. I have worked with this agency for a little over two years and I wouldn’t change anything about my experience with them! All of the staff are amazing and one of the things I loved is that everything is “in-house.” Being able to see the same nurses and doctors for every aspect of the IVF process was a huge plus for me.

I had the best experience with my first surrogacy that I decided to do it again. Amber is amazing. She helped me through the whole process and any time I had questions all I had to do was shoot her a text. It's a wonderful thing to help someone start a family!

Lindsay

[Pinnacle Surrogacy, formerly] California premium Surrogacy has been amazing to work with. As a first-time gestational carrier I am thankful I was able to work with such an amazing team. This experience has been one that I won't forget. Not only do I get to help bring someone's dream of having a family come true, but I also got to work with a great group of people.

Cassandra

[Pinnacle Surrogacy, formerly] Premium Surrogacy has been an absolute dream to work with! They make the whole process so smooth and seamless, always having your best interest at heart. Being able to be a surrogate is such an amazing opportunity but can also be terrifying as well, with premium surrogacy I’ve never felt more confident and at ease. This agency truly cares, and they show it in the way they treat you no matter what time of day someone is always available if you need something. They send birthday cards, and they also send small spontaneous gifts just to show you their gratitude which is completely not necessary, but very heartwarming they take the time to do those small actions that really do speak volumes. I can not say enough good things about this agency! You work with them once and I guarantee you'll be looking at doing surrogacy at least one more time.

Jaun’L

[Pinnacle Surrogacy, formerly] California Premium Surrogacy has been a breath of fresh air. I have worked with them for the past year and have no complaints. The coordinator that I have worked with the entire time has always been understanding, informative, honest, and quick to get things done on my behalf. They have taken the pressure off of me and done everything in their power to make this an enjoyable experience as a first-time Gestational Carrier. I will be using them for any future journeys.

Makaylah

Amazing & Supportive agency! I just completed my surrogacy journey and it was hands down something I will never forget. I knew I wanted to be a surrogate but I was a little hesitant and scared. I took a leap just based on the shared stories and reviews of [Pinnacle Surrogacy, formerly]California Premium Surrogacy, and I would not change this for anything. This agency has an amazing team (that feel more like really supportive friends) that works with you every step of the way. They are professional, and caring and they make the whole journey feel so smooth. They honestly think of everything to make sure you are comfortable and doing good. I honestly felt like top priority with them, not just a transaction. Some members of their team have also been surrogates themselves which is so helpful in hearing their experiences and getting guidance. The process was seamless and it was such a pleasure meeting and working with all of them. I would 100% recommend them if you are thinking about becoming a surrogate.

Jessica

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