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
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.
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 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.
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.
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!
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