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Your Path to Parenthood Success. Experience. Caring. ARTparenting.com Your Path to Parenthood ARTparenting 1004 Willowleaf Way Potomac, MD 20854 Providing compassionate, phone: 301-217-0074 email: [email protected] comprehensive legal services and all arrangements for building your family through surrogacy and assisted reproduction. design: ellenemmerich.com N Meryl was my able lawyer, Success. O providing me with the security Possibilities on the Experience. of knowing that everything was being done properly… my Path to Parenthood Caring. nati matchmaker, finding me the When the traditional road to parenthood is perfect surrogate to bring my uncertain or disappointing—there is hope and Next Steps: Q&A DO success on the horizon thanks to Assisted Is this path right for What are assisted reproductive children into the world. But she Reproductive Technologies (ART). M technologies (ART)? was also my friend, holding my you? Embarking on the R journey to parenthood Many times, individuals cannot become hand at tough moments and E pregnant without specialized medical care. genuinely sharing in my joy. OUR PRACTICE through surrogacy or As the name implies, ART procedures are assisted reproduction SP ARTparenting has assisted hundreds of intended those that employ advanced technologies parents on their path to parenthood through is a big step, and it’s ♥ to help those individuals become pregnant. The methods used to achieve pregnancy Can we use a sperm donor and/or an egg surrogacy. During the exciting and emotional important that you feel N by artificial or partially artificial means donor in a gestational surrogacy? journey, our practice provides a complete program— confident in taking it. are collectively known as Assisted Yes. In many cases, the sperm and egg of the including all the legal and organizational support O Reproductive Technologies (ART). intended parents are utilized; however, in some necessary—to expand a family through surrogacy, Our website, cases either a sperm donor or an egg donor, or egg donation, sperm donation, and embryo 1. sometimes both are utilized. Other cases will ARTparenting.com, What is third-party reproduction? donation. We feel privileged to be a part nati utilize donated embryos. Third-party reproduction refers to a process of building so many families. provides extensive where another person provides sperm information about the and/or eggs, or embryos, or where another Can we use our own surrogate and still surrogacy and assisted work with you? woman provides her uterus so that the EVERY STEP OF THE JOURNEY reproduction process. intended parent can have a child. The Yes. ART Parenting will prepare the legal DO YO We guide intended parents through each step of We hope you find third party’s involvement is limited to the agreements, and can also manage expense becoming a parent through surrogacy, including: R reproductive process and does not extend accounts and assist the parties through the all the information to raising of the child. process, including taking care of the necessary ✦ Carefully recruiting and screening gestational you need. If you don’t, paperwork or court order for the birth carriers or surrogates please ask us. What is surrogacy? certificate before or after birth. ✦ Preparing all necessary legal agreements EMB ♥ A surrogate is a woman who carries a ✦ 2. Inquiry Form baby through the pregnancy for another Overseeing the relationship between the Can we use our own egg donor? intended parents and their surrogate online. Fill out our N person. Gestational surrogacy involves the Yes. You will still need to have an egg donor confidential online O use of IVF where the embryo is implanted agreement prepared. In that case, your donor ✦ Step-by-step guidance, support, and advice inquiry form, and we by embryo transfer. Traditional surrogacy will be screened medically by your IVF center. ✦ Collaboration with all relevant professionals involves the artificial insemination of the will provide you with ATI surrogate, usually utilizing the intended ✦ Review of insurance coverage more information. If N father’s sperm. How long does it take to be matched with a surrogate? ✦ Finalizing all legal rights you prefer, call us at You can be matched immediately, or it may 301-217-0074. take a few months. This will entirely depend Meryl’s passion to help WHO WE worK WITH upon what is important to you in a match. FREE initial intended parents comes We help couples, singles, and same-sex couples 3. consultation. 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