Will I have to travel a lot as a gestational carrier?

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Wondering if being a gestational carrier means constant travel? In this short video, we break down what appointments typically look like, which visits might require travel to the intended parents’ IVF clinic, and how most of your pregnancy care can happen conveniently close to home.

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Hey, everyone, it's Jennifer White, CEO of Bright Futures Families, with this week's Ask Question, which is if I'm a gestational carrier, will I have to travel a lot? And the answer is it really depends. It depends on your match, it depends on your location, it depends on your parents clinic. You're going to have to do at least some level of. I'm going to use the word travel, as in you're going to have to go to a lot of appointments no matter who you match with, no matter what, because there's going to be a lot of monitoring, blood work, ultrasounds, things like that. So even if you're local to the clinic, you're still going to have to travel to the clinic. You're going to travel to a lot lab potentially, if it's not in house with the clinic. If you're not local to the clinic, you may have to travel at least twice. It could be only once, though, I'm going to say, because sometimes this happens too. Usually it's typical to go for the medical workup and then of course you're going to need to travel for that, the embryo transfer. There are some clinics out there that require some of their ultrasound. They're monitoring ultrasounds to be in person. So that could be a third time that you need to travel to wherever that clinic is if there's monitoring and that's local to you, even though it's not going to that clinic. It could be. Sometimes the word local is a misnomer. It could be local means it's several hours away because it's very specialized that you have what you're looking for in those clinics, especially for the ultrasounds. And so we always want to warn people there is, yes, we're going to do everything in our power to make it as convenient as possible for you. But there also is a very good chance you may have to be traveling quite a bit and be making a lot of accommodations to get through these appointments. So it really will depend on you, your specifics, your match, if there are constraints in your life that just make it so that you can't do certain things, just be open and honest with a clinic or with an agency, they're always going to help you get through those things and find the match that works best for you. So I hope that helps.