Guidance Surrogacy is a for-profit egg donation and surrogacy agency based in Waterloo, Iowa. It describes itself as a full-service agency that helps intended parents build their families by connecting, counseling and guiding them, drawing on first-hand experience and a network of surrogates and egg donors.
The organization is small and appears to be owner-operated. Its principal, Brook Abel, works as surrogate coordinator and describes herself as a mother, educator, and a former egg donor and gestational surrogate — experience the agency presents as central to how it supports the people it works with.
Because Guidance handles both egg donation and surrogacy, intended parents may work with it on donor matching as well as on finding and being matched with a gestational carrier, with the agency accompanying both sides through the steps of the process. Surrogates work directly with the coordinator, who serves as their day-to-day point of contact.
Eligibility requirements, fees and surrogate compensation details, where available, appear further down this page.
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Summary: Gestational carrier who completed a 2025 journey and is returning for a second one; praises the coordinator (Brook) as highly responsive and reliably getting things done, and recommends the agency without reservation.
Read the original on Forums (opens in a new tab)Summary: Intended parent reports the team guided them through each step of the process and successfully matched them with a surrogate; would recommend.
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