The number of couples who start looking at their surrogacy opportunities in Ukraine increases with every year due to more and more successful stories from other people who have already completed their journeys here. Ukraine has become quite a popular country for IVF and surrogacy journeys because of the high quality of the full set of services involved in such a program and the affordable prices at once. Due to this fact, a lot of women from Ukraine start questioning themselves if they would be a good fit as a surrogate and make a change to someone’s life.
How does the surrogacy process start?
Considering surrogacy motherhood is completely allowed on a legislative level in Ukraine, there are certain requirements which must be met by surrogate either from the legislative and the medical perspectives. Some of them are common, however, there are such created individually by every clinic or agency.
The general requirements at our agency are:
- The age from 20 to 35 years.
- The presence of a biological and healthy child.
- No more than 1 c-section during the previous pregnancies.
- The healthy index of body mass.
- No bad habits, such as smoking and drinking alcohol.
- No hereditary and chronic diseases.
- It is essential to have healthy habits.
- If a surrogate candidate is married, a notary certified consent from her official husband.
Women should first correspond to the above-mentioned criteria before proceeding with the medical screening. Please, note, that the range of initial questions may vary.
Medical requirements to surrogates
At HermanFamily the positive medical evaluation result is in the number of important steps to confirming a woman as a surrogate. Therefore, the entire set of medical screenings needs to show that the woman is healthy, ready to get pregnant, carry the baby to term and to have a delivery.
The key objective of this screening is to ensure the woman’s possibility to easily get pregnant through IVF and to exclude or, at least, minimize risks of complications throughout the program. That is why every woman who is eager to become a surrogate needs to be prepared that the medical staff of the clinic has to do the full health check. The most common list of screening procedures includes:
- Fertility hormone tests (LH, FSH, E2, Prolactin).
- Thyroid function tests (TSH, T4, TPO antibodies, etc.).
- Screening for infections, PAP test.
- Different types of ultrasounds.
- Complete blood count, urine test, and blood chemistry test.
- Consultations of IVF specialist, endocrinologist, general practitioner, and psychotherapist.
This list is a must for any potential surrogate as determined by the law of Ukraine. In case of some serious deviations from the norm on some testing levels, woman cannot be accepted as a surrogate candidate. Judging from our experience, around 50% of all women who contact us with the desire to help other people cannot be accepted due to the medical reasons and issues which show up during the testing procedures.
Surrogates-to-be should keep in mind that every clinic may add up to this list their own tests or screening procedures in case of necessity. COVID-19 test is relatively new but obligatory for each surrogate at Parens Fertility, it is done by PCR method. Before the beginning of the stimulation our surrogates are performing this test to be certain it is negative and they can start one of the most important pieces of the program. If result comes back positive, the lining preparation, and, eventually, the transfer, have to be postponed.
Legal requirements for surrogates
At Parens Fertility the positive medical evaluation result is in the number of important steps to confirming a woman as a surrogate. Therefore, the entire set of medical screenings needs to show that the woman is healthy, ready to get pregnant, carry the baby to term and to have a delivery.
The key objective of this screening is to ensure the woman’s possibility to easily get pregnant through IVF and to exclude or, at least, minimize risks of complications throughout the program. That is why every woman who is eager to become a surrogate needs to be prepared that the medical staff of the clinic has to do the full health check. The most common list of screening procedures includes:
- Fertility hormone tests (LH, FSH, E2, Prolactin).
- Thyroid function tests (TSH, T4, TPO antibodies, etc.).
- Screening for infections, PAP test.
- Different types of ultrasounds.
- Complete blood count, urine test, and blood chemistry test.
- Consultations of IVF specialist, endocrinologist, general practitioner, and psychotherapist.
This list is a must for any potential surrogate as determined by the law of Ukraine. In case of some serious deviations from the norm on some testing levels, woman cannot be accepted as a surrogate candidate. Judging from our experience, around 50% of all women who contact us with the desire to help other people cannot be accepted due to the medical reasons and issues which show up during the testing procedures.
Surrogates-to-be should keep in mind that every clinic may add up to this list their own tests or screening procedures in case of necessity. COVID-19 test is relatively new but obligatory for each surrogate at Parens Fertility, it is done by PCR method. Before the beginning of the stimulation our surrogates are performing this test to be certain it is negative and they can start one of the most important pieces of the program. If result comes back positive, the lining preparation, and, eventually, the transfer, have to be postponed.
