Why CSO Has Been Canada's Most Trusted Surrogacy Agency Since 1992

In 1992, my mother founded Canadian Surrogacy Options.

I was four years old.

I didn't understand what she was doing, of course — only that she was helping people, and that the work seemed to matter deeply to her. As I grew up, I came to understand more: that she was building something that didn't yet exist in this country, in a field that barely had a name.

Thirty-four years later, I run the agency she built. And not a week goes by that I don't feel the weight and honour of that inheritance.

What It Means to Be Canada's First

Being Canada's first surrogacy agency isn't something we take for granted. It's something we take seriously.

It means we have walked with families through every evolution of this field — legislative changes, medical advances, shifting social acceptance, the growth of the LGBTQ+ parenting community, the emergence of egg donation as a common path, the transformation of reproductive technology.

We have made mistakes along the way, and we have learned from every one of them. The policies we have today — our matching process, our surrogate screening, our legal referral network, our journey support model — have all been shaped by decades of real-world experience.

No other agency in Canada can say that.

The People Who Built This Agency

My mother used to say that this work is about relationships before it's about anything else. She was right.

Over more than three decades, we've worked with hundreds of surrogates. We've helped welcome over 2,500 children into families who were waiting, hoping, praying. We've sat with parents through failed transfers and wept with surrogates on the phone in the middle of the night.

This is not a business in the conventional sense. It is, in the truest meaning of the phrase, a calling.

The team we've built reflects that. We hire people who care — deeply, genuinely, sometimes inconveniently — about the families and surrogates in our care. We don't measure success in volume. We measure it in outcomes. In families whole. In surrogates who feel honoured and supported. In babies brought safely home.

What's Changed — and What Hasn't

Much has changed in surrogacy since 1992. The legal framework has evolved significantly. The medical technology has transformed. Social acceptance has grown enormously, especially for LGBTQ+ families who now form a significant and beloved part of our community.

What hasn't changed is the core of what makes a surrogacy journey work: trust. The trust between a surrogate and the intended parents she's carrying for. The trust between a family and the agency guiding them. The trust built slowly, carefully, through honesty and follow-through.

We've stayed in business for thirty-four years because families and surrogates trust us. That's it. That's the whole business model.

Why I'm Still Here

People sometimes ask me why I chose to stay in this field — why I took over the agency rather than pursuing something different.

The honest answer is that I couldn't imagine anything that would feel more meaningful. I have watched, up close, what it means for a family to finally hold their child. I have seen surrogates transform through the experience of giving this gift. I have witnessed human generosity at its most extraordinary.

I get to do that work every day.

I hope, if you're reading this, that you'll give us the chance to walk alongside your family. We don't take it lightly — not for a single moment.

If you'd like to learn more about who we are and how we work, I'd be glad to connect. Book a free 30-minute call — my door is always open.

— Robyn Price, Executive Director, Canadian Surrogacy Options