Surrogacy
Doula Support
We know that surrogacy is a deeply meaningful path — whether you're carrying a child for someone else or preparing to welcome your baby through the help of a surrogate. Our Surrogacy Support is designed to honor all the complexities and beauty of this experience, with care that blends both practicality and heart.
🤍 …considering surrogacy and wishing for an impartial guide to help you understand the process?
🤍 …already matched and wanting support that honors both the surrogate’s and intended parents’ experiences?
🤍 …feeling unsure how to navigate the emotional ups and downs that come with this unique journey?
🤍 …looking for someone to help facilitate conversations and keep everyone connected, grounded, and informed?
🤍 …wanting reassurance and practical tools as you move through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum together?
🤍 …hoping for steady, compassionate support that centers your values, decisions, and hopes for this journey?
Are you…
Why Choose Surrogacy Support?
Surrogacy involves many moving parts—from medical protocols and agency coordination to legal requirements and more.
While clinics and agencies provide essential services, they often focus on clinical outcomes and logistics. What’s missing is the continuous, personalized emotional and practical support that helps everyone feel prepared and cared for day to day.
That’s where we come in. Our services don’t replace those other pieces — they complement them. We walk with you through the entire process to help it feel more human, more supported, and more connected.
Whether you're carrying or receiving, this support is here to strengthen the journey for everyone involved.
Our Approach:
Flexible, Inclusive Sessions: Support may include pregnancy education, birth and postpartum planning, emotional processing, newborn care discussions, and more — adapted to your specific role and needs.
Two-Pathway Support: Work with us as a surrogate, an intended parent, or as a team — support can be tailored to serve both parties individually or together.
Empathetic Guidance: We create space to hold the emotional complexity of surrogacy — grief, joy, boundaries, expectations, communication, and beyond.
Support That Complements Your Team: We collaborate with — not replace — your agency, clinic, and other providers. We can even support you during the selection process, if you’re still evaluating all your options.
Every surrogacy journey is different, but no one should walk it unsupported. Whether you're still wondering if this is the right path for you or deep in the process, our Surrogacy Support services are here to help you navigate the experience with confidence.
We provide individualized support for gestational carriers (surrogates), intended parents, or both.
Surrogacy is a powerful collaboration, but it’s also filled with emotional, logistical, and relational nuances that deserve dedicated support. Our time together offers a place for questions, planning, and processing.
Support can begin at any stage —from pre-pregnancy planning to the postpartum transition— and is tailored based on your unique needs and timeline. Services are primarily virtual and designed to flex with the evolving nature of surrogacy.
Inviting a doula into your surrogacy journey can look like:
✨ Education & Guidance — Clear explanations of medical processes and options, emotional milestones, and what to expect during each stage of surrogacy.
✨ Planning & Preparation — Helping you create birth plans, postpartum plans, and intentional conversations between surrogates and intended parents.
✨ Bridge of Communication — Facilitating discussions so everyone feels heard, respected, and supported.
✨ Continuous Support — Being available for check-ins before, during, and after appointments, transfers, birth, and postpartum.
✨ Labor & Birth Support — A resource during labor, whether for the surrogate’s comfort or to guide intended parents through the birth space.
✨ Postpartum Support — Guidance for both surrogate recovery and newborn care for intended parents, honoring the unique needs of both sides.
✨ Resource Connection — Referrals to trusted professionals (agencies, clinics, mental health, legal, lactation, etc.) when needed.
The Doula Difference
Every family’s journey through surrogacy is unique, but the heart of doula support is about how it feels in the moment.
With continuous presence, compassionate care, and a steady voice beside you, you’ll feel reassured through the unknowns of the process and more confident about each part of your journey.
Inviting a doula to be a member of your support team can feel like:
✨ Grounded & Steady — Having someone by your side who understands the unique complexities of surrogacy and can hold space for the emotions that arise.
✨ Affirmed & Understood — Feeling seen and validated, whether you’re the surrogate navigating your own body’s journey or the intended parents waiting to meet your baby.
✨ Connected to the Process — Feeling connected to the pregnancy as an IP can be difficult at times; we are here to support your relationship to your surrogate and your baby prenatally.
✨ Confident & Informed — You’ll have the education and resources to navigate through each appointment, procedure, and milestone with clarity.
✨ Supported in the Hard Moments — Having someone impartial who can guide conversations when perspectives differ or unexpected challenges arise.
✨ Embracing the Joy — We’ll be here with you to celebrate each major milestone and all the little moments that make this journey extraordinary.
Meet Your
Surro-Doula
Hey, I’m Sarah B.
Hello, friend! I’m Sarah Bethel — a two-time surrogate and longtime doula.
My experiences as a surrogate and doula have given me a front-row seat to the beauty and complexity of the surrogacy process. I have seen how much support is needed (yet, is often missing) for both surrogates and intended parents.
I created this Surrogacy Doula program because I know firsthand that while contracts and calendars keep the logistics moving, what makes the difference is feeling educated and truly cared for. My role is to bring clarity when things feel overwhelming, and to hold space for the heart of the journey — the people, the emotions, and the relationships at the center of it all.
From the very first “what if we try this?” conversation through postpartum recovery and newborn bonding, I’m here as a steady presence and trusted guide. My goal is simple: to make sure no one has to navigate surrogacy feeling uncertain or alone, and that each of your milestones is met with care, compassion, and confidence.
Are you navigating the complexities of surrogacy?
Not sure where to start: Agencies, fertility clinics, legal requirements — all of it can feel confusing and daunting.
Emotional highs and lows: Balancing hope, anxiety, excitement, and uncertainty that leaves you feeling stressed and exhausted.
Overloaded with appointments and updates: So many visits, tests, and medical notes that it’s hard to keep track.
Hormone and medication stress: Uncertainty about protocols, side effects, and timing can feel overwhelming.
Decisions feel heavy: Choosing birth plans, interventions, or prenatal options can create pressure and anxiety.
Worried about the unexpected: Changes in plan, complications, or contingencies feel stressful and hard to anticipate.
Postpartum concerns: Questions about how everyone will navigate recovery, bonding, and transitions.
We provide support that meets you where you are.
Guided Surrogacy Support: Clear, balanced guidance so you can feel informed and prepared without information overload.
Continuous Presence: A steady, experienced presence who understands both sides of the journey, helping surrogates and intended parents stay aligned and supported through any stage.
Practical Tools & Strategies: Guidance for coping, communication, and preparation — from medical updates to birth-day logistics and postpartum planning.
Reassurance & Compassion: A calm, nonjudgmental voice helping you navigate choices, clarify next steps, and maintain confidence as the process unfolds.
Our goal is for the surrogacy journey to feel informed, connected, and supported — honoring the unique experiences of both surrogates and intended parents.
Your surrogacy doula provides emotional and informational support through every milestone — from match and transfer, through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. We bring the guidance, tools, and reassurance needed to navigate this complex process with calm and confidence.
Your Surrogacy Deserves a Doula
Alongside practical guidance, your doula offers emotional steadiness, thoughtful planning, and a calm presence through every stage. A surrogacy doula helps you feel empowered, cared for, and prepared, from those first hopeful conversations to the unforgettable day your baby arrives.
You don’t know
what you don’t know.
Surrogacy can be very different from a typical pregnancy journey.
Most surrogates and intended parents don’t realize that many layers of support can make the process smoother, clearer, and more enjoyable.
Our surrogacy support sessions help uncover what others often gloss over.
Did you know…
✨ Surrogates and intended parents often have very different expectations about communication — creating a plan ahead of time can prevent stress later.
✨ Surrogacy agreements outline the big picture, but day-to-day choices (like prenatal appointments, updates, or birth preferences) are often left unclarified.
✨ Even when medical care is excellent, providers don’t always address the emotional needs of surrogates or intended parents — that’s where a doula can step in.
✨ Post-birth recovery for surrogates can feel overlooked, especially when the focus shifts to the baby — ongoing support ensures their recovery is prioritized, too.
✨ Intended parents may feel unsure how to participate during pregnancy or birth — with guidance, they can find meaningful ways to be present and supportive.
✨ Birth plans in surrogacy often need special consideration, balancing the surrogate’s comfort and recovery with the parents’ wishes and first moments with their baby.
✨ Open conversations about pregnancy and postpartum boundaries — like visits, updates, or contact — help protect relationships and set everyone up for success.
✨ When complications or unexpected situations arise, surrogates and IPs often feel unsure where to turn and can have difficulty navigating conversations about next steps.
These are just a few of the areas where clarity and support make all the difference.
You don’t have to have all the answers. You just need someone who understands surrogacy, holds space for everyone involved, and helps you navigate each step thoughtfully.
Frequently Asked Questions
✨ What IS a surrogacy doula? A surrogacy doula provides educational, emotional, logistical, and relational support to surrogates and intended parents throughout a surrogacy journey. That might look like helping intended parents feel connected to the pregnancy even from a distance, supporting the surrogate through the physical and emotional realities of carrying for others, facilitating conversations about birth plans and newborn care, or simply being a calm, steady presence when things feel overwhelming.
✨ Where do you provide support? I provide in-person support to families in the Corpus Christi, TX areas, and I also work virtually with intended parents and surrogates anywhere in the world. For those outside my immediate area who want in-person support, custom travel packages are available.
✨ Do I need a doula? HOw Does A Doula fit in with the rest of my birth team?A surrogacy journey often involves many players — fertility clinics, doctors, nurses, specialists, lawyers, an agency, and so on. Each brings expertise, but the experience can feel fragmented, with gaps in communication, differing opinions, and limited space for ongoing educational and emotional support.
My role isn’t to replace any of those professionals, but to connect the dots. I offer clear, evidence-based education so everyone feels informed and confident, rather than overwhelmed by medical jargon or conflicting advice. I’m also here for the in-between moments: holding-space for the anxieties that are keeping you up at night, understanding the side effects you’re not sure are “normal,” the hard conversations about balancing everyone’s needs, and the countless little details that can otherwise feel heavy.
Think of me as the bridge — the one who helps you understand what’s happening, why it matters, and what options you have, while also making sure everyone feels respected, connected, and cared for every step of the way.
✨ Is investing in a doula really worth it?We know that surrogacy itself is already a significant financial investment. Between clinic and agency fees, legal contracts, medical costs, travel, and more — every dollar matters. It’s natural to wonder whether adding a doula is truly necessary.
A surrogacy doula isn’t just another expense. Our role blends education, emotional support, and logistical guidance in a way that can actually save time, stress, and even money. With the right information and preparation, families may find themselves avoiding unnecessary interventions, streamlining communication, and reducing the need for outside consultations that can add up quickly.
The value isn’t only financial, though. The reassurance of having someone by your side — someone who understands the process, helps you navigate the unknowns, and keeps everyone connected — is an investment in a smoother, more positive experience for all involved.
Additionally, some insurance plans and health savings accounts may cover or offer reimbursement for prenatal education and doula services. It is also a great idea to add a ‘doula’, ‘birth coach’, or ‘educator’ to your baby-registry, and talk to your friends and family about supporting this important element of your care. Many intended parents and surrogates also choose to include doula services directly in their surrogacy contract, ensuring support is planned for and shared as part of the overall journey.
✨ What are my options for investing in doula support?We aim to make investing in doula support as straightforward and flexible as possible. Once you decide to move forward, we’ll send you an electronic contract and invoice. Payments can be made securely online via debit/credit card, bank transfer, or HSA/FSA card, if applicable.
To make things more manageable, we also offer flexible payment plans. After completing an initial deposit, we’re happy to work with you to find installment options that feels comfortable! Additionally, some insurance plans and health savings accounts may cover or offer reimbursement for fertility education and doula services. We’re happy to provide a detailed invoice, our EIN and NPI numbers, insurance claim codes, and anything else you may need to submit for possible reimbursement.
✨ What will our sessions be like?Our sessions are designed to meet you where you are and provide clarity, guidance, and reassurance throughout the surrogacy journey. Each session is personalized and can include the surrogate, intended parents, or just one party depending on your needs.
Together, we might:
Review the upcoming steps in your surrogacy journey and clarify medical, legal, or logistical details.
Explore medications, hormone protocols, and potential side effects, so everyone feels informed and prepared.
Discuss birth preferences, contingency plans, and postpartum expectations for both the surrogate and intended parents.
Provide guidance for emotional and relational dynamics — addressing concerns, normalizing experiences, and fostering clear, compassionate communication.
Share practical strategies for wellness, comfort, and self-care during pregnancy, labor, and postpartum.
Sessions are interactive, flexible, and tailored to your needs — blending education, problem-solving, and emotional support. My goal is for you to leave each session feeling informed, confident, and fully supported, with actionable steps and a steady presence you can rely on throughout the surrogacy journey.
Surrogacy is extraordinary.
Your support should be, too.
Support Options
Surrogacy is a journey unlike any other — unique in its joys, its complexities, and its transformative power.
Our sessions go beyond simple checklists or logistics. With every conversation, you’ll gain not just information — but reassurance, perspective, and tools that honor both your needs and the unique relationships at the heart of your journey.
Whether you’re heading into your first journey or walking this path again, our time together offers a space to feel truly seen, supported, and prepared.
Each of our sessions is approximately 2–4 hours. Sessions often include education opportunities, planning templates, thoughtful resources, and conversation guides designed to help you feel grounded, empowered, and ready for each step of the process.
Together, we’ll explore the big picture, walk through a variety of scenarios, and create supportive plans that prioritize the needs and desires of everyone involved.
Invest in steady guidance, informed support, and compassionate care.
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Ideal for those that would like a few check-in points along the path, or want targeted support through one distinct phase of the journey. These sessions offer clarity, reassurance, and guidance when you need it most.
Investment: 3 Sessions - $695
✨ This may be a good fit if:
You’re seeking clarity about a specific stage of the journey or want a few check-ins available as questions or concerns begin to pile up.
You’ve been through this journey before but want extra support throughout the process, especially in case of complications or unexpected challenges.
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Perfect for those seeking a balance of education, planning, and emotional support through the most some of the biggest milestones. We’ll walk together through your most major medical, emotional, and logistical transitions. Highly recommended for anyone entering into a surrogacy journey for the first time.
Investment: 6 Sessions - $1,320 (Save $70)
✨ This may be a good fit if:
You want clear, compassionate guidance through the medical, legal, and emotional layers of surrogacy.
You’d like a consistency of care and availability when it comes to asking questions and processing concerns.
You’re looking for practical strategies and smoother communication so nothing gets lost along the way.
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Ideal for surrogates and intended parents seeking extra guidance, this package offers the opportunity for support across the full journey — from pre-pregnancy through postpartum. With more space to go deeper into planning, communication, and preparing for unexpected scenarios, you’ll feel confident and reassured at every stage.
Investment: 9 Sessions – $1,750 (Save $210)
✨ This may be a fit if:
You want steady, guided support from matching through postpartum, with no gaps in care.
You’re navigating a long-distance relationship between the surrogate and intended parents, and want stronger connection and communication.
You value ongoing emotional, relational, and educational support for everyone involved.
You want practical preparation for the “what-ifs,” so unexpected moments feel less overwhelming.
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Our most complete package for those who value the highest level of connection, preparation, and care. This package allows us to move slowly and intentionally, ensuring every detail feels aligned — from the very first conversations to the postpartum transition.
Investment: 12 Sessions – $2,250 (Save $415)
✨ This may be a good fit if:
You want a trusted professional by your side from matching, to birth, to postpartum recovery.
You’re navigating complex dynamics or complicated pregnancy, and want extra reassurance for both surrogate and intended parents.
You want the security of ongoing support so no question, concern, or milestone feels overwhelming.
You prefer guidance and education that evolves alongside your journey, with focused discussions around matching, medical clearance, transfer, each trimester of the pregnancy, birth planning, pospartum recovery, and newborn care as you approach each milestone.
Surrogacy can feel like a whirlwind of milestones, decisions, and emotions — and while agencies, clinics, and legal teams manage many logistics, what’s often missing is consistent, compassionate support.
My role is to steady the process with education, practical guidance, and genuine care, ensuring both surrogates and intended parents feel grounded, informed, and truly supported throughout the experience.
