Carrying Dreams, Inc. is a for-profit, full-service surrogacy and egg donation agency based in Ohio. It opened in 2023 and was founded by Emily Westerfield, who has been a gestational carrier multiple times and who describes having worked in surrogacy since 2014. The agency's egg donor program is led by Melissa Dos Santos.
The agency works with intended parents and gestational carriers in the United States, and says that all of its egg donors and gestational carriers are based in the U.S. Applicants to its surrogate program are asked to be U.S. citizens or residents. Intended parents from outside the country are welcomed, as are LGBTQ+ intended parents and people building families on their own.
As a full-service program, Carrying Dreams handles both sides of a journey in-house: matching intended parents with gestational carriers, coordinating the steps of a surrogacy from screening through delivery, and running a separate egg donor program for families who need donor eggs as well. Its published surrogate criteria cover age, body mass index, prior pregnancy history and prior cesarean deliveries, and the specifics of those requirements, along with compensation ranges and program fees, appear in the tables below.
Carrying Dreams publishes its fee structure on its website, and on its Ohio city pages it describes its rates as among the lowest offered by agencies in the United States. The agency's marketing emphasizes the founder's own experience as a surrogate as the starting point for how the program is run.
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Base compensation
$25,000 – $70,000
Published by the agency. Benefits and allowances are usually on top of this.
Requirements change — confirm with the agency before applying.
See which agencies fit youCarrying Dreams accepts gestational surrogates between 21 and 43 years old.
Carrying Dreams requires surrogates to have a BMI of 35 or lower.
Yes. Carrying Dreams requires surrogates to have had at least 1 prior pregnancy.
Carrying Dreams's citizenship or residency requirement for surrogates: United States.
