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INTENDED PARENTS
Agency Partners
Intended Parents
Supporting Families Beyond the Process
Specialized education and experiences for intended parents navigating surrogacy.
Surrogacy agencies do an incredible amount to guide families through the journey—from matching and coordination to milestones, communication, and logistics.
But becoming a parent through surrogacy is more than a process to navigate.
Flourishing Families provides specialized education and experiences designed to help intended parents feel informed, connected, prepared, and present as they approach birth and parenthood.
Our programs are designed to complement the support your agency already provides—giving your families dedicated space to prepare for the parts of the journey that aren't found on a checklist.
Both offerings help intended parents prepare for:
Surrogacy-specific childbirth education
Birth planning and preparation
Alignment sessions with intended parents and surrogate
On-call labor support
Postpartum and newborn guidance
These experiences are designed to be
An Extension of the
Agency's Support
Your team is there to help families navigate the surrogacy process. We're here to help them experience it.
Our programs focus on the transition from intended parent to parent—helping families better understand birth, communicate with their surrogate, prepare for the hospital experience, connect with one another, and create space for the emotions and anticipation that come with welcoming their baby.
By partnering with Flourishing Families, your agency can offer families access to support created specifically for the unique dynamics of surrogacy without having to develop or deliver that programming internally.
Your Birth Experience Matters
When intended parents feel informed, prepared, and emotionally grounded beforehand, space is created for the surrogate to focus on labor, you to focus on becoming parents, and your baby to enter the world surrounded by love and connection.
✺ Flourishing Families - Your Birth Experience for Intended Parents ✺
Support for the Journey ahead
Your Birth Experience - Intended Parents
Your Birth Experience – Intended Parents is a surrogacy-specific birth education, preparation, and support experience
Childbirth education was created for specifically for the person giving birth. But intended parents need preparation, too.
Your Birth Experience – Intended Parents helps families understand what to expect as birth approaches and gives intended parents and their surrogate the opportunity to prepare both individually and together.
From childbirth education and hospital dynamics to birth planning, communication, and the transition into parenthood, we help everyone approach the birth feeling more informed, aligned, and prepared.
Prepare: Access education and planning support designed specifically for surrogacy birth.
Align: Clarify roles, communication, expectations, and preferences through guided sessions.
Navigate: Receive on-call support and real-time guidance when labor begins.
Transition: Feel supported through the postpartum and newborn transition after birth.
How to Become An
Agency Partner
Your agency can partner with Flourishing Families - Your Birth Experience in two ways:
Include the program in your intended-parent packages through agency licensing and volume pricing.
Offer Flourishing Families as a trusted resource that intended parents can choose to pursue independently.
Either way, our team takes it from there.
✺ Flourishing Families - The Arrival Retreat for Intended Parents ✺
Space to Experience the Moment
The Arrival Retreat - Intended Parents
A pause in the process—so becoming a parent doesn't feel like just another step in it.
The surrogacy journey asks intended parents to spend months focused on decisions, timelines, appointments, contracts, and forward motion.
The Arrival Retreat offers something intentionally different.
A chance to pause.
To reconnect with each other.
To step away from the logistics of the journey and reconnect with what they're actually moving toward: becoming a family.
Created specifically for intended parents, The Arrival Retreat brings together connection, reflection, preparation, and anticipation in an experience centered on the transition into parenthood.
For agencies, it provides a meaningful resource for families looking for support beyond the logistics of their journey.
Intended Parents Will Experience
Birth Preparation: Understand the surrogacy birth experience, hospital dynamics, roles, and decision-making with greater confidence.
Early Parenthood: Prepare for the first days and weeks with realistic guidance on newborn care, emotional transitions, and life after birth.
Connection as a Couple: Strengthen communication, align expectations, and intentionally step into parenthood together.
Rest and Relaxation: Slow down, reconnect, and create space to appreciate this extraordinary chapter before your baby arrives.
How to Become An
Agency Partner
Your agency can partner with Flourishing Families - The Arrival Retreat in two ways:
Partner with Flourishing Families on a white-labeled retreat specifically for Intended Parents with your agency.
Offer Flourishing Families as a trusted resource that intended parents can choose to pursue independently.
Either way, our team takes it from there.
Intended Parents
Created from Inside the Surrogacy Experience
Flourishing Families was built with an understanding that surrogacy changes the experience of pregnancy and birth for everyone involved.
Our team brings together lived surrogacy experience, childbirth education, and licensed professional expertise to support families through the unique dynamics of these journeys.
We understand the role your agency plays.
And we're not here to replace it.
We're here to complement it—with education, preparation, and experiences that give intended parents dedicated support as they move from navigating surrogacy to becoming parents.
Let's Support
Families Together
Whether you're looking for a program to incorporate into your intended-parent packages or simply want trusted resources you can confidently share with your families, we'd love to connect.
Explore our agency partnership opportunities or talk with our team about what might work best for the families you serve.
