Where does a surrogate give birth?

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Hey everyone, it's Jennifer White, CEO of Bright Futures Families Surrogacy, with this week's question which is: Where does the surrogate give birth? And I'm gonna have to infer from this question what's being asked. But I can answer it kind of in two prongs ways. The first and obvious is like location wise, she's going to give birth in the state where she lives and where obviously her family is. Things like that, gestational surrogates, unless very, very rare, extreme dire situations and ones that we as an agency don't handle, sometimes they have moved to where the intended parents are or we don't handle that we don't want to disrupt the gestational carrier's life because she has family, kids, school, you know, work, things like that around her. As to the physically where does she give birth, that really comes down to you and the gestational carrier. And obviously we want to make sure people are aligned before you're matching. But sometimes she'll deliver in a hospital and sometimes she may deliver in a birth center. That is something that during the matching phase, everybody really wants to make sure that they're in alignment on though, because you don't want to suddenly be like as a gestational carrier say, well, I wanted to deliver in a birth center all along and the parent said I really wanted you to deliver in a hospital. It's so knowable upfront something a conversation that any good agency will guide you through and have that conversation from the start. So it I hope I answered the question as it was presented to prong in the state where she was born and either in a birth center or in a hospital, wherever you all as the parties agree together. I hope that helps.