Your journey matters
The professional support we offer Brilliant Surrogates stretches through match, surrogacy agreements, fertility treatment, pregnancy, birth and beyond, helping you navigate whatever your surrogacy journey brings.
What our professional support feels like
Your dedicated client manager will support you and your intended parents through every step of your surrogacy journey together. This isn’t just access to support if needed, it’s having an experienced professional to proactively navigate you through the process.
With regular check-ins to answer your questions and support your communication, prompting and help with practical next steps, and direct liaison with any professionals or healthcare provision you are working with, your client manager’s role is to take the worry out of your surrogacy journey and ensure you have everything you need.
Each of our client managers has years of experience supporting UK surrogacy teams and draws on their deep knowledge and extensive network of professional contacts, including lawyers, counsellors, nurses, clinical experts, doulas, fitness professionals, childbirth experts, postnatal care experts and more.
The benefits we provide can’t be easily listed because our support is – quite simply – whatever you need.
What Brilliant Surrogates say about our professional support…
The support our UK Surrogacy Pathway includes as standard
Access to our education and preparation programme
Psychological evaluation with our specialist clinical psychologist to explore your motivations, values and personality style
Bespoke support calculating your expenses
Our unique one-to-one match process
Structured sessions to work through your surrogacy agreement, designed by a qualified CEDR mediator
Legal advice from an independent solicitor
Specialist wills for you and your partner
Life insurance for your family
Your dedicated client manager giving you unlimited support throughout your journey (it’s literally our job to support you)
Confidential counselling with a BICA-accredited counsellor before treatment and during the pregnancy – unlimited
Our surrogate retreats and other get-togethers
Access to our closed surrogate community groups
Milestone gifts at key stages, including chocolates, flowers, bellybuds and special surprises
Introduction to your fertility clinic and support through your treatment at every step
Starting treatment gift pack
Support during your two week wait after embryo transfer and following your pregnancy test, whether the result is positive or negative
Positive pregnancy gift pack
Regular check-ins and proactive support of your communication as a team during the pregnancy
Gift packs at 12 and 30 weeks
Liaising with healthcare and other professionals as needed during the pregnancy
A safety-net of expertise and support if anything goes wrong with the pregnancy
Unlimited emotional and practical support following any setbacks, including failed transfers and miscarriage
Checking your delivery hospital has an up to date surrogacy policy and discussions with your midwife and delivery team
Support with birth planning
Unlimited postnatal support in the first six weeks to help you and your family settle back into your lives, and check ins up to 6 months
Postnatal counselling – one session as standard, more if needed
Signposting to additional support if needed post birth
Baby born gift pack
Managed parental order process for your intended parents to ensure this runs quickly and smoothly
Letter to help intended parents make key decisions before parental order is granted
Practical support and advice for you during parental order, including liaising with CAFCASS if needed
Ongoing support through our surrogate community
What it feels like to support Brilliant Surrogates
“I feel genuinely honoured that my surrogates put their trust in me to support them in their journey, and I feel a huge amount of responsibility to make sure that I am giving them what they need. Our surrogates are superhuman; they constantly amaze and inspire me.
As well as surrogacy, we often end up chatting about their families, sharing parental anecdotes, catching up on gossip…it’s a privilege to be welcomed into their lives during their journey, and to be able to build real trust so that they know they can lean on me.
It doesn’t feel like a job when you get to speak to such incredible women every day.”
Gemma, Client Manager since 2015
The safety and security we provide
“Each team is unique and individual which keeps the magic of each journey – and me on my toes. When things go well, it’s incredible, though because there’s a lot of luck involved in every surrogacy journey, there can be stressful times to support teams through too. It can feel hard when teams are on their third transfer and feeling weary or if something unexpected happens.
But it all makes baby’s arrival even more sweet when it happens. I’ll always remember one surrogate telling me about how she felt seeing her intended fathers with their new baby, hearing them whisper how they just never thought they’d have the honour of being parents in their lifetime.
I think that it’s when things don’t go well that the value of what we do really shows. For me, knowing that we match our teams so carefully helps us feel confident that, whatever does go wrong, we can find a solution. With an eye on the details, the bonds formed are ones that will forever be held and respected.”
Esther, Client Manager since 2017
Our surrogate community
Our surrogate community is amazing, and you will have access to our events, unique surrogate retreats and other get-togethers in person and online.
Join our Surrogates’ Facebook group
Join our Facebook Group, a safe space where you can meet and learn more from our existing surrogates.
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