About Surrogate Steps

Surrogate Steps is an attorney-directed, licensed, and full-service surrogacy agency founded in 2013.  We specialize in growing families through precise screening, thoughtful matching, and personal guidance throughout the surrogate and intended parent journey.

Fast Facts

  • 2013

    Established

  • 60+

    Years of Combined
    Surrogacy Experience

  • 99.5%

    success at bringing
    home a baby

  • 422

    families and counting

  • 30+

    Active Surrogates

 

 

Trusted and referred to by leaders in reproductive medicine.

 

Our Team

Founder and Director

Yifat Shaltiel, Esq.

Yifat Shaltiel, Founder of Surrogate Steps’, has specialized in the field of reproductive law since 2010 and has led Surrogate Steps since 2013.

Yifat’s passion for helping couples and individuals become parents and build their families through surrogacy stems from her own struggles to grow her family and her eventual use of advanced reproductive technologies to become the mother of two beautiful children.

Yifat’s legal background in litigating high-profile crimes and special training in assessing the credentials and credibility of individuals enables Surrogate Steps to secure only the most qualified gestational carriers for our program.

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What Makes Us Special

  • Credible

    In an unregulated industry, it pays to work with a licensed agency (NYS Department of Health License Number GS211010) and an attorney-directed agency that is obligated by law to uphold fair and ethical business practices.

  • Personal

    Each and every one of our staff members has been a surrogate on multiple occasions, some as many as four times.  With that comes a deep understanding, knowledge, and empathy to guide our surrogates and parents every step of the way.

  • Comprehensive

    We work together with a team of specialists nationally and internationally, including attorneys, psychologists, and social workers, to guide you every step of the way throughout your surrogacy journey.



What our surrogates and parents say

  • I appreciate all the Surrogate Steps team has done to help me through this journey. I have never once felt alone or out of place.

    Surrogate Lourdes

    Thank you for my two amazing miracles and for helping me achieve my dream to be a dad! Your dedicated team made all the difference, and I will forever be grateful to you!

  • Thank you for my two amazing miracles and for helping me achieve my dream to be a dad! Your dedicated team made all the difference, and I will forever be grateful to you!

  • Surrogate Steps made it such an easy process from start to finish. They made sure everything was set up from traveling, hotels, embryo transfer, legal, and escrow accounts to delivery. Most of all they treated me like family even after my journey was over, it was like being part of a forever sisterhood. 

    Surrogate Becca

    The Surrogate Steps team is so enthusiastic and knowledgeable. They’ve been right there beside me through every step of this journey.

    Surrogate Caroline
  • The Surrogate Steps team is so enthusiastic and knowledgeable. They’ve been right there beside me through every step of this journey.

    Surrogate Caroline
  • Working with Surrogate Steps has been such an amazing experience; they make everything so easy. I am so appreciative of every single person that has helped me at Surrogate Steps, and I am forever grateful for them and this experience.

    Surrogate Diamonique

    I have been working with surrogate steps for the past few years now. They are all so wonderful and have helped me every step of the way.

    Surrogate Harlea
  • I have been working with surrogate steps for the past few years now. They are all so wonderful and have helped me every step of the way.

    Surrogate Harlea
  • Working with Surrogate Steps was straightforward, easy, and professional. They facilitated key elements of the process, and perhaps most importantly, connected us to an amazing GC with whom we remain good friends.

    Yifat listened to our concerns, and her and her team worked diligently to find us a match. Although it took some time, our ultimate match was perfect for our family and we are forever grateful for our carrier and the support Yifat and the team provided at all points along our journey. We highly recommend the Surrogate Steps family.

  • Yifat listened to our concerns, and her and her team worked diligently to find us a match. Although it took some time, our ultimate match was perfect for our family and we are forever grateful for our carrier and the support Yifat and the team provided at all points along our journey. We highly recommend the Surrogate Steps family.

  • Thank you all for helping me make my dreams come true! I’m truly blessed! I rave about you guys all the time. You made a very difficult process seem easy!

    Parent Janene

    Thank you so much! We are overjoyed at Dominic’s arrival and feel incredibly blessed to have been paired with Candace. That would not be possible without Surrogate Steps and could never begin to put our gratitude into words. I’ve attached a picture of our little guy!

    Parent M & M
  • Thank you so much! We are overjoyed at Dominic’s arrival and feel incredibly blessed to have been paired with Candace. That would not be possible without Surrogate Steps and could never begin to put our gratitude into words. I’ve attached a picture of our little guy!

    Parent M & M
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