Have you ever noticed how people with generous hearts, always have more to give?

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Surrogacy is a subject that can be feeling daunting and difficult for those who don’t know much about the process to truly understand. Surrogacy is a truly selfless act.

Surrogacy is an arrangement made when a person agrees to become pregnant and have a baby for another person or couple. The person carrying the baby is called the surrogate and the person or couple who will become the parent/s are known as the intended parent/s; which is sometimes abbreviated to IPs within the surrogacy world.

Surrogacy is often the only course of action available to IPs who are unable to carry a baby to term themselves.

Family creation through Surrogacy at Herts & Essex Fertility Centre will provide you with treatment, support, and guidance from our highly experienced specialist team that was awarded the Best Surrogacy Clinic of the Year Award in 2018 and 2022.

Sarah Templeman is our Head of Surrogacy and Egg Donation. Sarah went to College straight after she finished school in 1989 and has since been caring for people as a nurse for the past thirty-four years. This decade-spanning impressive act of service and dedication is testament to her passion for helping others. Sarah has a wealth of experience and knowledge and there is probably not much she hasn’t encountered in her thirty year career.

Sarah was instrumental to the process when we were setting up our Egg Donation, Egg Sharing and Surrogacy programmes in the clinic and because of her, we’ve been doing Surrogacy for more than 12 years, which makes us one of the most experienced Surrogacy clinics in the UK.

Whilst attending Herts & Essex Fertility Centre, you realise that generosity is a mindset of abundance. We live and work by this philosophy. We believe that we can learn to live from a place of generosity rather than fear or anxiety, scarcity, or shortage, we can all collectively make this world a better place.

Being generous with our time, effort, love, attention, and gifts, we can all help our fellow humans by sharing, teaching, supporting, or giving.

Our fantastic team member Caroline Cayley says: “When I got the opportunity to work at Herts & Essex Fertility Centre, it was too good to turn down. From a personal point of view, knowing the heartache that I experienced with my own infertility, helping other people go through something similar, is what makes my job so fulfilling.”

For Caroline, working at the clinic has felt like a dream come true. Initially she had no job description given to her. When she was interviewed, she was told that it was too difficult to write a job description for the role so she could make as little or as much of the role as she wanted – and, that’s exactly what she did.

Almost eight years later, Caroline has taken on more responsibility and turned the role into something unique and tailored to her strength – she specialises in both egg donation and surrogacy. The job is very much patient led and depends on where in their journey they are, so every day is different and there is no such thing as ‘a typical day’ for Caroline.

Caroline confesses:

“I am a perfectionist, so my job is challenging but hugely satisfying. Matching the right donor to the right recipient, followed by a successful surrogacy cycle and seeing the baby nine months later is the best feeling in the world. My friend once said to me “You are playing God” and maybe I am, but ultimately it is both a privilege and a massive responsibility to help these prospective families”. Caroline continues, “although my patients move on to the next phase of their treatment, they are never forgotten as I continue to follow their journey long after treatment is finished.”