Screening process for intended parents and prospective surrogates.

The medical screening process for all the participants of the surrogacy journey involves a variety of tests and examinations.

Intended Mother

• AIDS
• Hep B
• Hep C
• RW
• Pelvic ultrasound
• Gynecologist examination
• Antral follicle count
• Prolactine
• AMH
• FSH
• TSH
• LH
• Clinical blood test
• Coagulogram
• CMV
• Herpes type 1,2
• Toxoplasma gondii
• Rubella
• Chlamydia trachomatis
• Mammary glands ultrasound
• Thyroid gland ultrasound
• Karyotype
• Blood group and rhesus
• TPOAb (thyroid peroxidase antibodies)
• TGAb (thyroglobulin antibodies)

Intended Father

• AIDS
• Hep B
• Hep C
• RW
• Blood group and rhesus
• Karyotype
• DNA fragmentation
• Semen analysis (spermogram)

Reccommendations how to increase the chances of successful pregnancy:

For the Intended Mother

• Abstain from taking any medicine. If there are some medicine to take on a regular basis, you have to inform your Doctor on it. It is very important to provide your Doctor this information before the start of the treatment;
• Exclude smoking and alcohol;
• limit coffee and other drinks which contain caffeine (no more the 2 cups per day);
• avoid changes in the daily nutrition and diets that tends to the weight loose;
• abstain from sexual activity for 3-4 days before the aspiration of oocytes and in the future after the embryo transfer till the day of pregnancy confirmation;
• abstain from the hot bath and sauna.

For the Intended Father

• abstain from sexual activity for 3 days before the aspiration of oocytes;
• abstain from the use of alcohol or any other drugs;
• abstain from taking medicine;
• abstain from strong black tea, coffee and smoking;
• abstain from the hot bath and sauna.

Surrogate Mother

• HIV (HIV antibodies)
• Hepatitis B (HBV)
• Hepatitis C (HCV)
• RW (syphilis)
• Gynecological examination
• Chlamydia infection
• Ureaplasma urealytis infection
• Mycoplasma
• Herpes (type I, II)
• Cytomegalovirus
• Toxoplasma gondii
• Thyroid-stimulating hormone
• Thyroxine (T4)
• TPOAb (thyroid peroxidase antibodies
• TGAb (thyroglobulin antibodies)
• Clinical blood analysis
• Clinical urine analysis
• Biochemical blood assay
• Coagulogram
• Vaginal smear
• PAP smear
• Blood type and rhesus
• Prolactin
• Consultation of physician + ECG
• Pelvic ultrasound
• Breast ultrasound
• Thyroid ultrasound
• Ultrasound of the abdomen
• Photofluorography

Surrogacy treatment is a unique, in most cases the only one chance to have a baby.

If you are perfectly sure that surrogacy is a right choice for you, then let us make a miracle.

by Dr. Maria Shvaikovsky

Оbstetrician-gynecologist, reproductive specialist, doctor of ultrasound diagnostics