Physician-Owned · 30 Years of Experience · San Diego, CA
Great Beginnings Surrogacy Services is owned and directly led by Samuel Wood, MD, PhD, MBA, MA — a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist. Not an advisor. Not a hired consultant. The owner.
Whichever path brought you here, our team is ready to walk it with you.
Learn what it takes to qualify, how compensation and expenses work, and what your journey with GBSS looks like from application to delivery day.
Explore Surrogacy →Personalized matching, comprehensive support, and transparent guidance through every legal, medical, and financial step of building your family.
Start Your Journey →For 30 years GBSS has proudly helped LGBTQIA+ individuals and couples build families of their own, with care tailored to your journey.
Learn More →Great Beginnings Surrogacy Services is one of the very few agencies in the country owned and operated by a Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist. Samuel Wood, MD, PhD, MBA, MA, understands your medical journey at the deepest level — not as a case manager reading from a script, but as a specialist whose entire career has been devoted to reproductive health.
For 30 years, that direct medical leadership has helped GBSS become one of San Diego's most trusted surrogacy agencies, with 2,000+ babies born and a 98.8% success rate.
Real GBSS surrogates, in their own words.
I started my first journey with GBSS in April 2022. During the match call with the intended parents, my whole family joined in — it felt like two families coming together. With the compensation, I was able to fulfill my dream of becoming a surgical tech.
I found GBSS through a Google search and loved reading their reviews. My intended parents came from China wanting a baby girl. It meant the world to me when they visited during the embryo transfer, especially living so far away.