Single Parenting

Ready to build your family? Here at PNWF, we are here to help, whether you are partnered or not!

Single Parenting

Ready to build your family? Here at PNWF, we are here to help, whether you are partnered or not!

PNWF Approach

Congratulations on being ready to pursue single parenthood, we will guide you through every step of the process. Our comprehensive Center for Collaborative Reproduction provides access to donor sperm, donor eggs and gestational carriers (aka surrogates), depending on your needs.

Process & Options

Single Mothers: Patients with Eggs

We recommend doing basic fertility testing to help determine the best treatment course, including intrauterine insemination (IUI), in vitro fertilization (IVF) or IVF with a donor egg though our egg bank, SIMPLFY. We will also recommend testing to help you select your ideal sperm donor, either through a sperm bank (non-directed donation) or someone you know (directed donation). Depending on your treatment plan and family goals, we will help you navigate the type and amount of donor sperm vials to purchase.

We recommend the following resources to help you on your journey:

Single Mothers by Choice

Seattle Sperm Bank

Cryobank

Single Fathers: Patients with Sperm

Your sperm will be used to fertilize an egg from a donor that you select, which is a convenient process with us through our egg bank, SIMPLFY. Your embryo will then be transferred to a gestational carrier. Because the embryo is created from your sperm and an egg donor, the gestational carrier has no genetic connection to your baby. We partner with several surrogacy agencies to help you select a gestational carrier who is right to help you achieve your family.

We recommend the following resources to help you on your journey:

Article in The Guardian

Simplify Egg Bank

NW Surrogacy Center