The best way to begin working with Patriot Conceptions is to choose the intake path that matches your role. Intended parents, potential surrogates, and egg donors all enter through different questions, records, and timelines. A clear first step helps the care team route you to the right coordinator and avoids delays later.
If you are an intended parent
Start with a consultation and basic family-building review. Be ready to discuss whether embryos already exist, whether donor eggs or donor sperm may be needed, where you live, where your clinic is located, whether you already have reproductive counsel, and what timing or budget constraints matter.
This first conversation is not a promise that every timeline or match will work immediately. It is a planning step that helps identify the right legal, medical, matching, and financial sequence.
If you are interested in becoming a surrogate
Start with the surrogate application or prescreening path. Surrogate intake focuses on prior pregnancies, delivery history, current health, BMI, medications, location, insurance, support system, and whether your state is open for baseline surrogate recruitment.
ASRM guidance treats gestational-carrier screening as more than a form. It includes medical evaluation, infectious-disease testing, psychosocial evaluation, counseling, and legal counseling. That is why the first application is only the beginning of review.
If you are interested in egg donation
Egg donor intake usually starts with an application, health and family-history questions, profile information, and later clinic-directed screening. If you are currently pregnant, recently postpartum, breastfeeding, using certain medications, or managing a health condition, mention it early so the team can give realistic timing guidance.
What to prepare before you contact us
- Your role: intended parent, surrogate, egg donor, or unsure.
- Your state or country of residence.
- Whether you already have a fertility clinic or attorney.
- For surrogates: pregnancy and delivery history.
- For intended parents: embryo, donor, and clinic status.
- Timing constraints, travel limits, or language needs.
- Questions you want answered before committing.
What happens after intake
The next step may be a consultation, a more detailed application, document collection, clinic review, legal planning, or a pause until a timing issue is resolved. The care team should explain which step is informational and which step is a formal clearance or commitment.
Do not assume that submitting one form means medical clearance, legal clearance, or a confirmed match. Those milestones happen later and involve professionals outside the initial intake conversation.
How to avoid a false start
The most common avoidable delay is entering through the wrong path or leaving out a major timing issue. If you are unsure whether you are an intended parent, a donor candidate, a surrogate candidate, or a partner helping someone else, say that plainly. If you have a clinic deadline, an embryo-shipping question, a recent delivery, a state-residence issue, a language preference, or a privacy concern, include it in the first message.
That context lets the team decide whether you need a consultation, application link, records checklist, legal referral, or a simple orientation call before deeper screening.
Next steps
This page is educational information only and is not medical or legal advice. Your next step may change based on role, location, clinic requirements, and legal review.