IVF & Surrogacy For Gay Couples
Our dedicated surrogacy, egg and sperm donation teams are extremely experienced in helping LGBTQ+ families achieve their family building goals. We will guide you through the full range of fertility services that assist with the individual complexities unique to the needs of our LGBTQ+ patients. You can feel confident that you’ll receive high quality care no matter your identity or relationship status.
With the assistance of egg, sperm, embryo donation or Surrogacy as needed, family building becomes an inclusive reality with Care Fertility.
Treatment guide for gay couples
If you’re a gay couple interested in fertility/surrogacy treatment, there are a number of factors and options to consider
Choosing your egg donor
Which type of surrogacy?
Finding a surrogate
IVF treatment
Legal advice
When you're starting out
It’s important to feel prepared and our Surrogacy team can guide you through the process, giving you all the information and advice you need at each stage. They can help you break the Surrogacy journey into small, manageable steps and make sure you have all the information and guidance you need to feel empowered and in control. We will do everything we can to make sure that you can have the positive, personalised family building journey you deserve.
Learn all you can about your clinic, the team, costs of treatment, and the treatment process. Here are some ways you can get the information you may find helpful:
- Our Surrogacy team. The team can answer your questions about costs, the Surrogacy journey, the Legal process and other important information.
- Surrogacy agencies. If you have not found your surrogate yet, we’ll direct you to a non-profit surrogacy agencies in the UK that we know have helped many of our gay male couples in the past. There are some non-profit agencies that we’ve worked with who can provide practical advice to help gay couples find their surrogate including Surrogacy UK and COTS
- Read patient stories - it can really help to read about other people’s Surrogacy journeys.
- Reviews. These can provide good insight into the treatment experience through the eyes of real patients
- The Care Forum. Our forum is a great support tool. You can see the questions people are asking, and if you want to, you can reach out to others going through the same journey.
We understand that surrogacy can be a big decision. To provide you reassurance and guidance during the process, we follow strict guidelines to offer an ethical and positive surrogacy experience for everyone involved In this amazing family building journey.
Becoming a Care Fertility patient
If you have any questions, or if you’d like to talk to one of our team about your options, it’s easy to get started: