Is Surrogacy Legal in South Dakota?

Beginning Your Surrogacy Journey in South Dakota

Eggceptional Fertility is honored to assist you in your journey to fulfill your family’s hopes and dreams. Choosing your surrogate is an incredibly important decision, and we are here to help make that decision as easy as possible. Our rigorous screening process is unmatched in the industry and helps us find exceptional and dedicated surrogates. Our staff is made up of experienced and compassionate professionals ready to guide you through your surrogacy journey with care.

We provide in person, phone, video conference, and email communication options to make our services more accessible. There is never a charge for a consultation with Eggceptional Fertility. We are excited to get to know you and help you on your journey!

What Does Surrogacy Cost in South Dakota?

Surrogacy involves a significant financial investment. The total cost depends on your specific situation, needs, location, and other factors. In general, the costs of surrogacy can be broken down into the following categories:

• Surrogate Compensation
• Travel & Miscellaneous Expenses
• Agency Fees
• Medical & Mental Health Screenings
• Surrogate Medical Insurance
• Legal Fees
• IVF & Embryo Transfer

Intended parents compensate surrogates for their time, effort, and energy as she carries a pregnancy and delivers a baby. Surrogacy agreements also often include additional benefits for the surrogate, such as a stipend for maternity clothes or compensation for any missed time at work.

At Eggceptional Fertility, we offer our clients full transparency when it comes to fees and expenses. For a detailed explanation of our current surrogacy fees, click here.

Find an Experienced Surrogacy Agency Near Me

Working with an experienced surrogacy agency can save you time, money, and energy on your surrogacy journey. An inexperienced agency, however, can stack up unscrupulous fees or simply waste your time. Typing in “surrogacy agencies near me” can lead to an overwhelming number of links for different companies, many offering deals that seem too good to be true.

Eggceptional Fertility has been providing surrogacy services in South Dakota since 2008 and we believe everyone deserves the chance to create a family. We see all our intended parents, surrogates, and egg donors as part of one big Eggceptional family, joined by a common desire to build family legacies and change lives.

So how do you find a quality surrogacy agency? We recommend looking at three important factors:

• Experience – Surrogacy is a complex and lengthy process, leading to one of the most important moments of your life: when you become a parent. A quality surrogacy agency will have guided many surrogate journeys and know how to handle even the most unexpected situations.
• Transparency – With all the different details involved in surrogacy, it’s important to have a clear and complete sense of what to expect, from the surrogacy process to the expected timeline to the financial aspects. Look for a surrogacy agency that clearly lays out their fees and ask if there will be any additional costs that aren’t included in the initial agency agreement.
• Compassion – Becoming a parent through surrogacy is both incredibly rewarding and, at times, incredibly challenging. You deserve a surrogacy agency that roots for your success and supports you through the unexpected. Your goals should feel as important to the agency as they do to you.

When you find an experienced surrogacy agency that communicates clearly and feels fully supportive, you’ll know you’ve found the right one.

Who Can Use a Surrogate?

Surrogacy allows people who cannot carry or deliver a baby on their own to become parents, often while still sharing a biological connection with their child. In surrogacy, a gestational carrier (or “surrogate”) receives an embryo developed from the intended parents and/or an egg or sperm donor. The surrogate then carries the pregnancy and then delivers a baby. The surrogate doesn’t have any parental rights to the baby. In fact, surrogates generously offer to bring someone else’s baby into the world simply because they want to help people become parents. In return for the surrogate’s effort and time, she receives compensation from the intended parent(s).

A South Dakota couple or individual might choose to find a surrogate for any of several reasons, including:

• They have healthy eggs but can’t safely become pregnant.
• They had a prior hysterectomy.
• Neither parent can carry a pregnancy (for instance, gay male couples).

Some intended parents may also need to use donor eggs or sperm on their path to parenthood.

Starting Your Surrogacy Journey in South Dakota: Experience Matters

The surrogacy process involves:

• Matching with a surrogate
• Creating a legal surrogacy agreement
• Developing and transferring embryos
• Pregnancy, labor, and delivery

Of course, there are many more steps along the way! The journey begins with an initial consultation with your surrogacy agency. During this consultation, we’ll learn more about you and your family-building goals, as well as answer any initial questions you have about the process. We will also go into more detail about the entire surrogacy process to give you a clear understanding of what to expect. To begin your journey and find an excellent surrogate, schedule your initial consultation today.