[Snowy44]

Hi

Sorry for such a long delay in replying. Our baby was born via New Life Georgia at the end of March. So life has been very hectic!

We are so grateful to the team at New Life and our amazing surrogate. We are currently in Tblisi waiting for our baby's passport. Tblisi is a lovely place to stay and we are very happy here.

I am happy to answer any specific questions that anyone has.

 

[Canuck123]

Hi Snowy,

We are also in Georgia, waiting for our baby to be bit stronger to travel and off course, the passport.

Our baby was born on April 3 and she was in INCU and then in neonatal care since she was born prematurely.

We love Georgia and though we have to stay couple of weeks more, we really don't mind.

 

[GaryG]

We are considering surrogacy in Georgia.  The clinic / agency we are looking at is Surrogacy Baby Georgia (surrogacybabygeorgia.com) and wanted to find out if anyone has had any dealings with the agency.  They offer a guaranteed package with insurance for the surrogate and automatic program renewal with no additional cost in the event of fetal death. 

 

[Snowy44]

Congratulations to you. I hope that your baby is doing well. How long is your wait for passport ? What country are you from ?

 

[Canuck123]

Hi,
We are Canadians.  Baby is doing okay. Officially the citizenship and passport application should take a month (20 days for the application and 10 days for the courier).
How about you? How's your baby doing? How long do you need to wait for the passport?

 

[GaryG]

Hello Everyone,
  Im trying to gather information on an agency in Georgia and wanted to inquire if anyone has used SurrogacyGeorgia (surrogacybabygeorgia.com).  Im interested in their guarantee program. 

 

[Dreambaby]

Hi

Sorry for such a long delay in replying. Our baby was born via New Life Georgia at the end of March. So life has been very hectic!

We are so grateful to the team at New Life and our amazing surrogate. We are currently in Tblisi waiting for our baby's passport. Tblisi is a lovely place to stay and we are very happy here.

I am happy to answer any specific questions that anyone has.

Hi Snowy!

Congratulations on your baby!

May I ask how long it takes to organise a baby's birth certificate and passport in Georgia?

Thanks!

 

[miamiamo]

Snowy44, Canuck123 - amazing news, ladies. Wish you and all your family all luck in the world

 

[M81]

Hello everyone 

And congratulations to everyone that's been succesful in their surrogacy journey 

This thread has not been so active lately, so I just wanted to tell you my/our story and our experience so far where we're doing surrogacy.

After researching surrogacy for about 5,5 years we finally went to Georgia in august and signed with New Life, and guess what, our SM is pregnant!!! it's still early but we got two positive test results, so I would say things are looking good so far!

I know it's early but I'm so excited, as we haven't been very lucky so far (until now ). First I got cervix cancer nearly 6 years ago, and they did not want to retrieve any eggs, because it's not legal here to put them into another woman. Then radiation therapy ruined my eggs and uterus so I can't carry a baby nor do I have any eggs. Thankfully I'm healthy and cancer free, and have been for years.

After I got better from my treatment I started looking into surrogacy, and then almost 2 years ago a friend of mine said she could carry a baby for us, we were very happy, as it would be easier (and cheaper) to be at home and not have to go through the whole passport issue for the baby. She wanted to wait a bit though since it wasn't the right time, and then when the time came more than a year ago, she changed her mind, and didn't really tell me!!! She just began talking about other options for us, and said she was too old to be pregnant, even though she was the one that wanted to wait. And we had decided either way that surrogacy was for us, and not other options, we got really annoyed, especially my husband, and things are still awkward between me and my friend.

First I researched surrogacy in Ukraine and wanted to go there, but then I started looking into Georgia, and then we just went to Georgia to look into things, and ended up signing the contract and meeting two egg donors, and then chose one of them, and now we are awaiting our first baby/babies?!

I've done some calculating, and we should go for baby pickup in july, if everything goes well, we've only told our closest family members, and they are super excited.

Hopefully it's our turn to be happy and lucky now!

 

[miamiamo]

I am sorry to know that your friend changed her mind, and massive congrats on your success with surrogacy journey x

 

[M81]

Thank you so much miamiamo, it really is amazing, we should have done surrogacy much sooner 

They did an ultrasound scan nov. 26th, and there is one tiny baby in there, gestational age was 6 weeks then, and everything looked really good, they saw a good heartbeat at 123 bpm. We hoped for twins, but are just really happy that it worked, also considering this was our first try, so now we're waiting for our next scan, which will be dec. 10th, and just keep our fingers crossed that everything will be ok with the baby until it can arrive safely in july

 

[miamiamo]

Hi M81
any updates?

 

[M81]

Hi miamiamo 

No updates yet, the ultrasound scan is scheduled for tomorrow, and they will get back to us tomorrow or wednesday at the latest, I'm both very excited, impatient and nervous, I just hope everything is ok with our little one 
We've asked for a recording of the heartbeat so hopefully we'll get that. We've always imagined that hearing our baby's heartbeat for the first time will be magical, so we're counting on that.
Our families are now asking if we want a boy or a girl, and we're just like, we want both, but we don't really care as long as it's a healthy baby

 

[Wantafamily]

Hi M81


Congratulations on the exciting news with your little one! That’s so great and I hope tomorrow’s scan is everything you wished for! I hope you don’t mind me asking a few questions?
I’m thinking of NL too- can I ask how you felt with the support from NL?
Also- can I ask if you used DE or OE?
And did you choose your surrogate?
Thanks!

 

[M81]

Hi Wantafamily

Thank you so much, we are over the moon, but also just super nervous! You can ask all the questions you want

New Life has been great so far, we had a little trouble getting some questions answered from our medical coordinator, but then I wrote their customer service and they fixed it right away, we then got a sincere apology from our medical coordinator, and lots of prompt updates and questions got answered after that, but since we, not long after that, got our BFP, we quickly swithced to our pregnancy care coordinator, she seems very nice, and keeps us updated and have answered all of our questions so far. We also got 2 scan images of our little blob at 6 weeks, it was surreal.
We first had contact with Lela who is amazing and half british, and apparently very patient, since we've asked her at least 50 questions about surrogacy before we just went to Georgia. We actually stayed in her apartment in Tbilisi, even though it wasn't as cheap as other places you can rent, but we felt safer that way, after all we arrived in the middle of the night. They have free airport pickup service, and the driver was the sweetest man, he actually bought us water in a gas station  on the way to the apartment and he insisted on carrying my suitcase. They also offer taxis for the first visit to their office, the clinic and the notary office, which is so good, however taxis are very cheap and easy to find.
We used donor eggs, because I don't have any eggs, as I said in a previous post, and we actually met with 2 potential egg donors, aged 22 and 23, and had a very hard time choosing between them, but in the end it was up to me to choose, and I went with my first instinct and chose the 23 year old, and we actually got 20 oocytes, 13 mature, then they fertilized 10 and got 7 blastocysts, transfered 2 5-day blasts and one stuck Yayyyy
At NL you don't get to choose your own surrogate, the doctors do that, ours is 34 and has a 5 year old boy, and has succesfully been a surrogate in 2016. We haven't met her yet.

Sorry for writing so much and if anything is confusing you can just ask me again

 

[M81]

Amazing update on our little baby

It's doing very well, it measures 20 mm and heartbeat is 162 bpm at 8 weeks, we got a little video and it truly is magical to watch and to hear the very fast heartbeat 

Next scan will be dec. 25th, and we will hear from them the next working day, so not really sure when that is, but we are very excited! So good news we got today, it really made our day perfect 

Does anyone know at what stage you can find out gender at the earliest?

 

[miamiamo]

M81 - it's so exciting to read your updates. Wish you the very best of luck

 

[M81]

Thank you so much!

 

[Maymai]

Hey everyone. I'm new here. My husband and I are from Canada and are looking into surrogacy in Georgia as there's a massive shortage of surrogates in Canada.

Looking at pricing and good standards of course. Hoping to ship our embryos, if possible. We'll otherwise be using our own eggs and sperm

Also considering Ukraine

I welcome your suggestions and advice.

 

[M81]

Hello Maymai

Me and my husband are currently doing surrogacy in Georgia with New Life, our package costs 39400 USD, and our surrogate is currently pregnant, almost 10 weeks now, and it worked in our first try
So far we are very satisfied with New Life. We chose Georgia because I felt they were more professional than some of the clinics I contacted in Ukraine, also it's cheaper to do a program with New Life in Georgia than in Ukraine. We liked New Life best therefore we went to Georgia to meet with them and then we signed the contracts.
We used donor eggs, so I don't know anything about shipping embryos.