LGBT Friendly Surrogacy & Reproductive Services

Dr. Minna Selub and Dr. Kimball Pomeroy, your physicians here at Institute for Reproductive Sciences and Technologies (FIRST) in South Florida provide LGBT-friendly surrogacy and reproductive services to couples and singles throughout the Weston, Orlando, Jacksonville, and Tampa areas. If you’re looking for a friendly, caring, and understanding team of professionals to guide you on your reproductive journey, we are here to help.

Surrogacy Services in South Florida

Gestational surrogacy is a form of assisted reproduction in which gay and lesbian couples work with a surrogate who will carry their baby or babies for them. Gay men also have the option of choosing an egg donor, whether anonymously or through a friend or loved one.

While sperm from only one man is needed to fertilize the egg, you may also discuss the possibility of using your sperm to fertilize half of the eggs and your partner’s sperm to fertilize the other half. This is something that we can discuss with you during a consultation at our South Florida office.

Assisted Reproduction for Lesbian Couples

Our office offers lesbian couples several options for starting a family. Along with surrogacy, other options include,

• Intrauterine Insemination (IUI): this is where the sperm is inserted directly into the uterus. The sperm donor maybe someone the couple or person knows or it might be an anonymous donor.
• In-vitro fertilization (IVF): hormones are administered to stimulate the ovaries to produce several eggs. These eggs are then retrieved once they are released and then fertilized with sperm to create embryos. Once the eggs have been fertilized, they will be inseminated into the uterus.

More and more lesbian couples are opting for Co-IVF because it allows them to both take part in this journey into parenthood. With Co-IVF, the eggs are taken from one partner, fertilized with a sperm donor and then inseminated into the other partner, who will then carry the baby or babies.

Along with these LGBT-friendly reproductive services, we also collect, freeze, and bank both sperm and eggs for individuals before undergoing sex reassignment.

Why FIRST?

Dr. Selub has been serving the LGBT community as a reproductive physician within south Florida since 1991, working with gay and lesbian couples and singles, as well as heterosexual couples and singles, to help them start a family through a wide range of reproductive and surrogacy services. Dr. Selub is a trailblazer in this industry, providing compassionate fertility care to the LGBT community before anyone in Florida was. Everyone is welcome at FIRST.

With an office in Weston, FL, Florida Institute for Reproductive Sciences and Technologies is able to provide patients from South Florida, including Jacksonville and Tampa, with reproductive options in a safe environment with knowledgeable and welcoming physicians. If you have questions about our LGBT-friendly surrogacy and reproductive services, call our office today at (954) 217-3456.