Dr. Angeline Beltsos CEO of Vios Fertility Institute
Laws aside, surrogacy remains a topic that many don’t want to speak openly about…but for Dr. Angeline Beltsos, medical director of Vios Fertility Institute, she not only encourages the idea, she lives it.
Dr. Beltsos, a reproductive endocrinologist, medical director and CEO of Vios Fertility Institute, found herself in a similar situation recently when a patient she treats learned of her inability to carry a longer for fourth baby. A mother of three, Beltsos had tried for several years to have another baby, and when she finally became pregnant, complications led to the baby being born prematurely and not surviving.
This tragedy left a void in her life that her family urged her to fill. When she had trouble conceiving naturally, she tried IVF, however multiple miscarriages later, Beltsos recognized she would not be physically able to carry a baby to term. So with a few embryos remaining and a desire to complete her family, she and her husband decided to use a gestational surrogate- a woman who would have Beltos’ fully fertilized embryo implanted into her uterus and would carry and deliver the baby for her and her husband.