More and more parents today have realized their dream of creating a family through egg donation and/or surrogacy. For many, the complexities and difficulties seem overwhelming—but that ’s where we come in.
We coordinate every detail of your journey from beginning to end—so you don’t have to. You take care of your health, and we take care of the rest. And, our relationship does not end once a pregnancy is achieved. Open Arms specializes in maintaining and nurturing our relationship even after your baby is born.
Having Cycle Care Coordinators that speak English, French, Spanish or Arabic, we are able to work with intended parents from all over the globe. Our experience has taught us how to handle each journey delicately with each country by understanding the intricacies related to travel, birth certificates, and parentage. We are committed to our intended parents and their children until all loose ends are tied.
Surrogacy and egg donation opens up a world of possibilities for our same-sex couples and the entire LBGT community for expanding their families. We offer consultations that address particular issues that only relate to same-sex couples and the LGBT community and provide the important information that helps make the best decisions for you and your family.
Our goal is simple – if you are financially and emotionally ready to become a parent, we are ready to help you achieve that…with Open Arms.
Our Mission For Our Intended Parents:
The mission of Open Arms Surrogacy & Egg Donation is to form long-lasting bonds with our ever-growing family while compassionately and successfully delivering on the promise of a rewarding experience.
What We Do
- Help you to find your perfect match.
- Act as a third party communicator between you and your chosen egg donor
- Refer you to reputable fertility specialists and reproductive attorneys, if requested
- Work with your egg donor to schedule medical and psychological evaluations, understand financial considerations, and complete legal contracts.
- Provide you and your egg donor with accidental health insurance that will cover any unexpected medical complication caused by the egg donation cycle.
- Manage your donor escrow account and provide you with an expense report to view charges and payments
- Act as liaisons between you and your selected egg donor in order to give you the best experience with the least amount of stress.
At Open Arms, we understand completely what it takes to arrange, manage, nurture, and successfully complete the surrogate process from beginning to end. We make it as comfortable as possible for all parties involved.
We’ll act as a third-party communicator between you and your chosen surrogate, offering support and guidance throughout the process. If needed, we’ll refer you to successful fertility specialists, reputable reproductive attorneys and dedicated escrow agents. We’ll help your surrogate schedule medical and psychological screenings, understand financial considerations, and complete legal contracts. We’ll review insurance options that will best serve both you and your surrogate mother. We’ll act as liaisons between you and your selected surrogate to give you the best experience with the least amount of stress.
What We Do:
- Work to find you your ideal surrogate mother. Through our screening process with our surrogate mothers and getting to know you, we present possible profiles that we feel will be your “best fit”.
- Facilitate an in-person or video conference for you to meet your potential surrogate mother and allow you to decide if she is the one for you.
- Act as a third party communicator between you and your chosen surrogate mother
- Refer you to reputable fertility specialists and reproductive attorneys, and licensed and bonded escrow agents, if requested
- Work with your surrogate mother to schedule medical and psychological evaluations, understand financial considerations, and complete legal contracts.
- Be present for embryo transfers, ultra sounds and births if requested.
- Work with financial and billing departments to help manage insurance claims and medical payments
- Arrange for consultation with our insurance professional to discuss insurance options
- Connect with the hospital and social worker/case management prior to the birth to assure all goes well the day of the delivery.
Open Arms Guide to Surrogacy for Intended Parents
Financial Considerations For An Egg Donation Cycle
| Compensation for Your Egg Donor – (based on experience) | $6,000 + |
| Psychological Evaluation- Egg Donor | $300-500 |
| Legal Fees | $1,000 – $1,500 |
| Travel for Evaluation & Retrieval | $1,000 – $4,000 |
Financial Considerations For A Surrogacy Cycle
| Base Compensation for Your Surrogate – (based on experience) | $30,000 – $45,000+ |
| Additional Surrogate Mother Compensation based on event | $4,000 – $20,000 |
Psychological screening of surrogate and spouse/partner
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$500 – $1,500 |
| Escrow agent services | $1,500 – $2,000 |
| Attorney fees-Surrogate’s representation for review of contract | $1,000 – $1,500 |
| Attorney fees-Drafting of contract and pleadings | $5,500 – $7, 500 |
Travel Expenses for initial consultation with clinic and transfer
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$1,000 – $4,000 |
Open Arms Guide to Surrogacy for Intended Parents
This depends on the relationship you develop with the surrogate during the pregnancy. Sometimes lasting ties are formed and the friendship continues; at other times this is not so.
Proper screening, clear communication, and ongoing mediation help to minimize this risk. Because we do not work with traditional arrangements, a surrogate is carrying a child with no biological ties. Although she will most likely bond with the baby, she has a full understanding that the baby is not her own child.
Surrogacy arrangements are rarely covered by insurance, but this is a question you need to pose to your own insurance representative.
You are trusting your surrogate with your child. While you may want to question her, overdoing it may give the wrong impression. This is a key area that Open Arms Consultants specializes in-acting as a mediator and buffer between Intended Parents and the surrogate. We keep communications open as a caring yet neutral intermediary. We maintain the pulse of the relationship, and let you know how your surrogate is feeling.
We review all of our donors’ medical history, looking for genetic conditions that may affect your baby. Actual medical screening must be done immediately prior to donation to insure the good health of all involved.
The level of involvement depends on both the Intended Parents and the surrogate’s desires. These details are just some of the complex issues we walk you through at Open Arms Consultants. We attempt to match Intended Parents with surrogates who have similar wishes concerning the level of involvement. Our surrogates do sign a medical release allowing the sharing of medical information during the pregnancy. Most couples and surrogates agree to share the delivery and birth experience.
Each case is unique, depending on the couples’ wishes. When couples desire a surrogate with a particular religious or ethnic background, or one near their own geographical area, it may take more time to find just the right match.
All of our donors are between 21 and 29 years old.
Not usually. The egg donation process is strictly confidential. Donors and recipients may correspond through our agency, and often develop a bond on a first-name basis. On some occasions, if both parties agree, donors and recipients may meet.
In some cases this has been true, depending on the nature of the arrangement and the particular state and court. Florida, the home of Open Arms Consultants, is one of the friendliest states towards surrogacy. In a gestational surrogate arrangement, both sperm and egg come from the Intended Parents so no adoption would be required.
Your first step is to contact Open Arms Consultants. We will walk you through every step, every contract, every process, every procedure, and every detail. We welcome you with open arms!
Success depends on many factors. Your physician knows your circumstances best and understands the unique fertility issues you are facing.
Each state has its own laws regarding surrogacy. Open Arms Consultants is based in Florida, where the laws are the friendliest towards surrogacy.
Frequently, the factors in choosing a donor involve hair and eye color, body type, and resemblance to the Intended Parents. For others, education, culture, and ethnicity are more important. You will need to consider what is most important to you, with the understanding that even biological children rarely look exactly like their parents or siblings.
Under extreme circumstances, we will discreetly contact one of the parties with the request for information. However, we have promised our donors anonymity.
We will find her for you! If you communicate your needs and desires, we will advertise in the right areas to find a suitable donor.
We can arrange transportation to the clinic of your choice. Often, the clinic will ask us to have the donor screened locally and have the results sent to your clinic. We can easily accommodate all parties.