Surrogacy in the U.S./New Game for China’s Powerful and Expensive, Choosing Eggs is Like Beauty Contest, Chartering Planes to Pick Up Children

Most of the checked luggage is formula and diapers.

The fertility industry chain has become a new game for Chinese power elites and celebrities to show off their power and wealth, and Southern California has become a haven for these services.

Rumors of Chinese celebrities coming to the U.S. for Surrogacy have been circulating in the Chinese community, including a Chinese international movie queen’s second child being conceived as a surrogate in Southern California, and a plastic surgery actress giving birth to a child as a surrogate, but due to industry confidentiality agreements and legal requirements, no solid proof can be obtained.

Lawyer Liu Longzhu said that the powerful class in China superstitiously believes in the saying of more children, some of them will choose multiple surrogates to have multiple children. The first step is to select the right eggs and then find a surrogate mother to breed them. The process of selecting eggs is like a beauty pageant, selecting height, weight, Education, and athletic skills. Some will require the egg provider to have a PhD degree or be a gymnast. They also have high requirements for the surrogate mother, who is expected to have given birth once, and will ask about her background, age and education.

Lisa Wang, who is in the surrogacy egg donor industry, said that sperm is generally available in the form of sperm banks, with stock available. Eggs are also readily available, but most of the eggs are fresh and are selected by the customer before the egg retrieval procedure. Many people in China who want to buy eggs prefer Asian, especially Chinese eggs, and currently the main donors of Chinese eggs are in Taiwan, where egg donation is legal. Usually the guest chooses a suitable egg provider on the computer and then covers the other person’s Food, lodging and airfare to the US for egg retrieval. The full process of egg retrieval takes several weeks, and the cost of purchasing the eggs, excluding the cost of the procedure, is around 30,000 RMB for the egg provider and the agency services and legal fees respectively. In contrast, egg donation is illegal in mainland China.

After the surrogate mother has given birth, those gorgeous Parents-to-be choose to charter a plane to pick up their child back in China. Karena, a charter operator, said baby charters have become a new trend in recent years. There was once a scene of a charter flight with baby carriages occupying the aisles, six or seven babies on board, and several boxes of milk powder diapers in all the checked luggage.

The fertility industry chain has become a new game for the powerful and celebrities in China to show off their power and wealth, with egg selection like beauty pageants, multiple surrogates for multiple children, and chartered flights to pick up surrogate babies back in China.

Most of the checked luggage is milk powder and diapers.

After the surrogate mother births are completed, those wealthy parents-to-be choose to charter a plane to pick up their children back in China.