So long Surrogacy in India, Hello Surrogacy in Mexico and Thailand

To learn more about Surrogacy Mexico, visit our landing page www.mexicansurrogacy.com 

I am developing a distinction of becoming a professional pioneer. First I pioneered medical tourism, then Indian surrogacy for western patients, then gay surrogacy in India, surrogacy in Panama, the first HIV surrogacy, kidney transplants with a global donor exchange, micro insurance, and who knows what else. Now I get to pioneer surrogacy in Mexico and Thailand all while watching surrogacy in India unravel spectacularly.

To be fair, surrogacy in Thailand has been going on for about a year, but we have improved the process so that instead of it taking 10 weeks to leave with a baby, it will now take less than 5. In Mexico, we have actually managed to make the costs as cheap as India when you take air, hotel, and visas into consideration. I am saddened to see this latest crap circus come blazing out of the poop shoot of Indian bureaucracy because it ruined the plans of so many people, but we are certainly not surprised. India was given a golden opportunity for medical tourism but their archaic visa system has hurt us, and medical tourism, consistently. One only has to look at my boycott of India (see my Linked In profile) in 2011 to protest against the Texas Indian Consulate office (which subsequently changed its ways and was disciplined). I was always pissed off when Indians received a better price for many procedures over foreign patients, and encountering shady operators in India such as www.kiranclinic.com and Dr Shevani’s latest. I am also having to face a lot of sad and confused would be parents who have already started to the process in India but thank goodness for awesome people like Hari at www.indiansurrogacylaw.com who has helped assuage the fears of our clients.

Now onto the good news about Thailand and Mexico. Surrogacy without an egg donor in Thailand is going to cost $38,000 from start to finish and in Mexico it will cost $36,500. This does not include the consular fees, travel, hotel, twins, and complications with pregnancies or the baby. It used to cost $28,000 to go to India without a donor, which means when you add travel, air and hotel twice one could easily end up paying $8,000 more. We think most of our Australian and Asian would-be parents will go to Thailand and our US and Canadian would-be parents will be going to Mexico (“Cancun baby! Woohoo” takes on a whole new meaning now doesn’t it?).

Now Thailand and Mexico is not without its problems either. I can tell you crazy stories about Thailand that would leave you appalled (see my Facebook page about the story in which a street vendor pretended I damaged one of their products and tried to shake me down and when I refused to pay he tried to assault me). And I have had countless would-be parents tell us that they were concerned by the violence in Mexico. Let me assure you but we are there to minimize problems for you. In Thailand we have a remarkable concierge set up already who will be there for you from the moment you land to the moment you leave and we also have serviced apartments just for our medical tourists. In Mexico, you (or your donor)
will do the egg retrieval in Cancun and the transfer in Villahermosa (an hour’s flight from Cancun or a two hour direct flights from Houston). While I would be a jackass to deny there is violence in Mexico I would say with confidence that, unlike Miami, tourists are not being targeted (ouch!) and besides we have an awesome concierge in Cancun already (we will have one in Villahermosa way before the first birth happens). We have pioneered other destinations, assessed potential problems, and now we feel confident and safe about our choices, and so we hope you will take our over 10 years of experience into account when working with us.

Ole! And Sawasdee khap!

Hey Surrogacy Competition!

A word to our competitors. Be decent and build your own opportunity but do not try to leach off of us. We have signed exclusives with our clinic already while you were trying to figure out what hit you. Some of you have pretended to be would-be parents so that you can try to glean information out of us as to which clinics we are working with etc. There is only one word to describe people like you and that word is THIEF. You are stealing our research and efforts but most of all you are stealing our TIME. Time that we would use working with legitimate would be parents.

We take comfort in the fact that our would-be parents have more ethics than you to know that PlanetHospital is the one who started the surrogacy programs in Mexico and put together an effective program in Thailand long before you anticipated the problem you are facing in India and while you were pathetically trying to convince patients to disregard the new rules in India, that somehow everything will be okay.
Here are a few nuggets we received so that they know who you are.

Surrogacy in Mexico: Starting at $36,500

Surrogacy in Mexico is simple and very cost effective. The process starts in Cancun where the IVF and transfer takes place, and ends in Villahermosa where the delivery happens, and then two weeks later, you can take your baby home. That’s it. No hassles with exit visas or endless bureaucracy.

Cancun has egg donors from all around the world and costs $5,000 (more if you are looking for a certain type such as “Asian, Jewish, very tall, certain blood types, etc.).

For our hetero couples, you can come to Cancun for a 16 day vacation for the stimulation, ivf and retrieval; or come for a weekend and get your meds and then return 10 days later for the retrieval and IVF. Or you can work with our partner clinic in Los Angeles and get the embryos created in Los Angeles and shipped to Cancun for the transfer (we can arrange that of course).

For our gay clients, you can choose a donor, bring a donor, or create embryos here in the US and ship to Cancun. You can also come to Cancun for a day for your semen deposit or have it shipped (we can arrange that of course).

For those of you affected by infectious diseases (such as Hepatitis or HIV+), we can offer sperm washing but the embryos will have to be created in Los Angeles, and finally for those who want gender selection we can offer that too.

The quote includes:

• IVF
• Fertility Medications for a woman under 36 with normal health conditions or a donor
• Ovum pick up
• Transfer of two embryos (5 day blastocyst)
• Surrogate recruitment
• Surrogate insurance
• Surrogate travel and accommodations
• Embryo storage for 4 months
• Frozen embryo transfer if required (you have to pay for the surrogate’s
• travel though)
• Pregnancy tests
• Legal

Stage 2 & 3

• Surrogate monitoring
• Surrogate compensation
• Surrogate meal allowance and medications
• Medical monitoring and supervision
• Delivery (C section)
• Birth Certificate and notary

What’s not included (so you would pay for these if you need them):

• Initial lab tests (except for donor) – If you want to do this at the clinic it is $500 for men and $1200 for women (but a woman should do this in their own country and insurance might cover it).
• Egg donor if required (Egg donors are usually $5000 but unusual requests are higher).
• Embryo of Sperm Shipping ($2,000)
• Semen washing ($3.500)
• Gender selection ($1,500 for sperm sorting, this leaves you with more embryos but less certainty if a male is desired; or $6,000 for PGD which almost guarantees a male but reduces the # of embroys.
• PGD (Genetic tests, quoted based on what you want)
• Complications related to the child at birth (paid to hospital but reimbursed by insurance)
• Surrogate insurance ($1000/trimester, covers all complications)
• 3rd party supervision of the clinic (this is where PlanetHospital verifies that the process is taking place. May not be required since your funds are in escrow, but if you want additional peace of mind then this is the option for you.

Ok, so we said “Starting At” $36,500. What’s not included?

Other advantages of Mexico (that you could not get in India) other than proximity.

We can tell you the gender of your baby (so you no longer have to paint the baby’s room yellow).

No visa hassles

No uncertainties

Clean, modern, hospitals.

Surrogacy in Thailand, starting at $38,000

Surrogacy in Mexico is simple and very cost effective. The process starts in Cancun where the IVF and transfer takes place, and ends in Villahermosa where the delivery happens, and then two weeks later, you can take your baby home. That’s it. No hassles with exit visas or endless bureaucracy.

Cancun has egg donors from all around the world and costs $5,000 (more if you are looking for a certain type such as “Asian, Jewish, very tall, certain blood types, etc.).

For our hetero couples, you can come to Cancun for a 16 day vacation for the stimulation, ivf and retrieval; or come for a weekend and get your meds and then return 10 days later for the retrieval and IVF. Or you can work with our partner clinic in Los Angeles and get the embryos created in Los Angeles and shipped to Cancun for the transfer (we can arrange that of course).

For our gay clients, you can choose a donor, bring a donor, or create embryos here in the US and ship to Cancun. You can also come to Cancun for a day for your semen deposit or have it shipped (we can arrange that of course).

For those of you affected by infectious diseases (such as Hepatitis or HIV+), we can offer sperm washing but the embryos will have to be created in Los Angeles, and finally for those who want gender selection we can offer that too.

Other advantages of Mexico (that you could not get in India) other than proximity.

We can tell you the gender of your baby (so you no longer have to paint the baby’s room yellow).

No visa hassles

No uncertainties

Clean, modern, hospitals.