The procedures needed for surrogacy depend on your situation and whether or not you are using donor eggs. If your eggs or that of your partner will be used to create the embryos, you will need to take fertility medications to promote egg production in the ovaries. You will then undergo a minimally invasive egg retrieval procedure at the appropriate time.
After the eggs are collected either from an egg donor or the intended mother, they are going to be fertilized with a donor’s sperm or the intended father’s sperm. The resulting embryos are incubated and evaluated for development before they are transferred to the womb of the surrogate.