Choosing to build your family through surrogacy is a deeply personal and emotional decision. For intended parents, the matching and support process can feel both exciting and overwhelming. At Family Source Consultants, our role is to guide you with clarity, compassion, and experience, ensuring you feel supported from your first conversation through the moment you welcome your child.
Here’s what intended parents can expect during the matching process and throughout their surrogacy journey.
A Mutual and Thoughtful Matching Process
Matching at Family Source Consultants is a mutual process built on respect, alignment, and shared expectations. We do not believe in one-sided matching. Instead, we ensure that both intended parents and surrogates are thoughtfully matched based on criteria that matter to everyone involved.
This includes alignment around communication preferences, comfort levels, expectations during pregnancy, and overall personality fit. Some families prefer frequent communication and in-person connection, while others are more comfortable with structured updates or virtual communication. Neither approach is right or wrong. What matters is that both parties feel comfortable and aligned from the beginning.
By prioritizing mutual compatibility, we help create strong foundations for positive relationships and successful journeys.
Understanding Preferences and Expectations
Before any match is presented, our team takes time to understand your goals, values, and expectations for your surrogacy journey. This includes discussions around involvement during pregnancy, communication frequency, travel expectations, and personal boundaries.
We do the same with our surrogates, ensuring they are fully informed, supported, and aligned with the intended parents they are being introduced to. This thoughtful process helps minimize misunderstandings and supports a respectful, collaborative relationship throughout the pregnancy.
Transparency and Education From the Start
Education is a critical part of the matching process. Intended parents are guided through what to expect medically, legally, emotionally, and logistically. Clear timelines, next steps, and realistic expectations are discussed early so you feel confident and prepared as the journey progresses.
Our team is always available to answer questions and provide clarity, ensuring you are never left wondering what comes next.
Dedicated Support Throughout the Journey
Once a match is confirmed, intended parents are supported by a dedicated team that coordinates the many moving parts of a surrogacy journey. This includes working closely with fertility clinics, attorneys, and insurance providers, as well as helping manage schedules, communication, and updates.
Family Source Consultants remains actively involved throughout the entire process, offering guidance and support from medical clearance through delivery and beyond.
Supporting a Respectful Relationship
Every surrogacy relationship is unique. Some intended parents and surrogates form close bonds, while others maintain a more structured relationship. Our role is to help facilitate healthy communication, set expectations early, and support both parties in navigating the relationship in a way that feels comfortable and respectful.
When questions or concerns arise, our team is there to help guide conversations and provide support so the journey remains positive and collaborative.
Emotional Support and Reassurance
Surrogacy often brings a mix of excitement, anticipation, and vulnerability. Intended parents may experience moments of anxiety as they place something incredibly precious in another person’s care. These feelings are completely normal.
Our team understands the emotional side of surrogacy and provides steady reassurance, perspective, and support throughout the journey. You are never navigating this process alone.
A Commitment to Ethical and Compassionate Care
With nearly two decades of experience, Family Source Consultants is committed to ethical practices, transparency, and integrity. Our mutual matching process is designed to protect everyone involved and ensure that each journey is approached with care, respect, and informed consent.
Taking the Next Step
Matching is about more than logistics, it’s about creating a partnership built on trust, communication, and shared purpose. With the right support and a thoughtful matching process, intended parents can move forward with confidence and peace of mind.
If you are considering surrogacy and want to learn more about how our mutual matching and support process works, we invite you to connect with our team.
Contact Family Source Consultants today to explore your options and take the next step in your family-building journey. We would be honored to support you.
Staci Swiderski, CEO and owner of Family Source Consultants, has been a prominent leader in reproductive medicine for over two decades. Through her strategic vision and dedication, she has developed Family Source Consultants into a globally recognized agency specializing in comprehensive egg donation and gestational surrogacy services. Under Staci’s leadership, the agency has become a trusted partner for intended parents, surrogates, and egg donors worldwide, known for its rigorous standards, compassionate support, and commitment to excellence in third-party reproduction.
Her professional insight is uniquely informed by her own family-building experiences. As an intended parent, Staci welcomed her son via gestational surrogacy in 2005, and as a known egg donor, she assisted an infertile couple in expanding their family. These experiences lend a rare depth to her leadership and have fueled her ongoing dedication to ethical, empathetic, and professional support within the field of reproductive medicine.
