This woman, Allison Layton made life a living hell for my daughter, who gave birth to twins for a couple in Germany! I hope she gets jail time for the heartache she has brought on to both families!! She turned what should have been a very joyful experience into a nightmare! She made herself unavailable for calls and turned everything around on the families; removed contract items and failed to disclose that to the parties involved! To say she is evil is an understatement!

This just makes me so very sad and angry to read things like this. Angry that an agency would behave in such manner that allegations of this kind would be levied against them in the first place. And so very sad to read about the pain this agency has caused this woman, her daughter and others. My thoughts are with them.

It’s about time that Allison Layton gets investigated; she has managed to evade the reality of her actions for many years now, but there may be a light at the end of this tunnel of madness. Her spending habit’s have spiraled out of control and a lavish life style living enabled by stolen monies from intended parents, donors, and surrogates, just may come to an end. Allison Layton has taken advantage for her own personal gain, and is a habitual liar, currently living in a million dollar property while her personal home is in foreclosure; this woman is in financial ruin and many innocent victims that she stole from will be paying for her wrong doings, definitely prison time is deserved……..I hope that justice will be served for those who have endured such malice.

These comments seem unwarranted and unfounded. We used Miracles services and now have a beautiful family thanks to Allison and her team of experts. Our children are now almost 2 years old and I am thankful for the services Allison provided on a daily basis. Every time i look in my childrens’ eyes – I am grateful to God for the miracle that Allison helped make happen. My experience with her and the agency was perfect. So was the experience of everyone else involved with the agency – including doctors and surrogates. So, I’m not sure who is writing some of these horrible things, but it seems as though they need to be checked out before judgements are made. If this woman was a criminal, she would have charges against her and the DA would definitely take an interest in such a matter. There are no such charges and a disgruntled person should not be making such claims in such a public forum.
I am forever grateful for what this woman has done, not only for me and my family, but for the scores of other people she has helped as well.

I am a surrogate with them and on my second journey presently. I have not experienced any issues with money or bills not being paid, then or now. My IP’s were and are amazing. I have a great relationship with my IP’s and Allison. I could not be more grateful for my surrogacy journey. The Dr’s, nurses, and attorneys have all been wonderful too.

Pacific Fertility Center really needs to be looked at by the medical board and legal authorities. For some reason this medical center is always a victom and blames everyone else for their mistakes. I heard of a surrogate who has recently filed a complaint with the medical board, the surro was transferred a embyro after the medical director of the IVF Clinic got laboratory results of a abnormal HIV result. I’m not a medical doctor, but I think the embryo transfer should have never taken place and should have made everyone repeat FDA Screening test. Later the Intended Parents sued the agency for the clinic’s wrong doing, which sounded like a mal practive law suit….. I did refuse to work with PFC, and I’m very happy with my clinic…..

My husband and I heard about Miracles through a friend who used them and did not have anything but good things to say. Our clinic also had worked with them and did not report anyone with any issues with the agency. They said their donors and surrogates were all compliant and the agency was easy to work with. We unfortunately were not able to move forward with them since the surrogate we chose did not pass her medical screening last month. Her uterus was not adequate (and she was a prior surro with them last year). I guess something to do with her prior pregnancy? Even though her ob/gyn said she could be a surrogate again, our RE disagreed and did not approve her. Our Dr advised that we need to select another surrogate. So back to the search we go.
It is hard enough to learn you cannot have a baby of your own. Then to finally make the decision to go down this path is an entirely new emotional and financial journey in itself. We decided to cancel everything for now and requested our funds be returned. We have received our monies back from the agency for the donor and surrogate monies we previously paid. We only worked with the agency a short time and we have nothing negative to report.
If we can find another suitable surrogate to help us we may still consider working with Miracles and will hope our donor of choice with them is still available when we are ready to move forward again. Our friend had a good experience and still remains friends with their surrogate. If they had issues with the agency I would think they would not have told us about them.
However, we have learned not everyone will have a perfect experience in any aspect in life, just as we cannot have a child without assistance.
Does anyone know how many clients they help annually? I am just curious the ratio of how many happy clients there are vs. the unhappy clients. When I go on all of these different sites to read reviews and do my research for the “right agency” to help us, I do not see a lot of good ever really posted? It is mostly bad. It is great to have these sites but if it is mostly bad why would these places still be in business? They would have to do some good if they are still open.
Do people not report the good, only the bad? All of the agencies we had been researching, since there has been so many issues in this industry have 50/50 reviews. 50% good and 50% bad. The same goes for researching IVF doctors and even attorneys. Someone always has at least one “horror story” or negative thing to say. Which rightfully so, they should warn people of any issues just like people are doing on here. But when people have a good story it would be nice if they would share.
Perfect example, this clinic you are blogging about on here. You have reported an issue without really knowing all details. It seems it is mostly hear- say, but how many clients has that clinic helped people to become parents, and how long have they been in business? If this was the actual case wouldn’t they be closed down? I am sure any reputable facility that has an issue, if that was even really the entire issue, would take all measures and precautions to make sure whatever the issue was large or small, that it never happened again. This case seems to be pointed at this incident, but how many others have had issues like this or similar that goes “unknown”. My biggest worry was always that they would mix up the sperm or eggs and us end up with someone else’s and visa a versa when we did our IVF. With all the research we have recently started doing, these stories of good and bad are out there and everyone seems to have an issue with someone like the clinic, a doctor, nurse, donor coordinator, agency, attorney, donor, or surrogate. So what is one to do, not move on because there is something negative said?
We had also been thinking we could try and save money and go through surrogacy in India. That too has 50/50 reviews with both good and bad.
Then thought we could try and do this independently without an agency and that sounds like an even bigger nightmare from what we have been reading. With stories of these women just taking more and more money from the parents knowing how vulnerable we are, or worse the baby. Don’t get me wrong what surrogates do for those of us who cannot have a child is amazing, but again there is the flip side and there are surrogates who also give this industry a bad name and are here for just the money. Again back to the 50/50. Hate to say it but its true.
Even adoption has its nightmare stories with babies being bought and sold and birth mothers signing contracts with more than one family to get as much money as possible, to back out just before having the baby. Even changing their mind and taking the baby back. Some stories are just awful, and then there are the stories that are picture perfect.
This entire industry definitely needs standards which would hopefully make it much easier for all of us. I think with any of this no matter the agency, doctor, donor, or surrogate we all need to proceed with caution and hopefully end up with a healthy baby, and that is the best we can do.

Yes I was a donor. I finally got paid after I let her know that I contacted the FBI. And yes i really did contact the FBI.

Ella, these cases were handled by Dr. Marrs and Dr. Vargyas, their cases resulted with Birth Defects. Do you really think an IVF Center is going to share this information with the public? What planet do you live on? Regardless of how much genetic testing you do, you still have a chance of having a baby with birth defects. I personally know the IP’s (the IP is a medical physician who used CFP services). The IP’s wanted to block the surrogates compensation and blaming the surrogate for the birth defects. All genetic testing was done, something Failed! Like I said “I’m just sharing some information” and this is way I said “its not a good idea to put all your eggs into two companies”…..

Ella and Surrogate12 can we please stay on topic or take it to another blog that it may pertain to

worriedinca, have you received payment yet?

No I still havent been paid. Ms. Layton was in contact with me via email for one week but kept giving me vague statements and claims she is unable to pay me directly. Ive left messages on the Miracles machine with no return call. Ive asked her when exactly im going to be paid (if ever) and still havent gotten any answers and she no longer is responding to my emails anymore again. Im currently working with attornies, litigators, and the FBI but the process is slow.
To FYI- There is no reason for you to not be able to send emails outside of buisness hours. Emails can be picked up by herself upon open of buisness hours the next day. Thats ridiculous. You are dealing with the same problems as us all. Allison is just trying to buy herself time with excuses and a smoke and mirrors show. I hope everyday to hear that she will be charged for the numerous accounts and women she has mishandled, because payment directly from Layton seems unlikely after all this time I have already been waiting.

I also wanted to mention that the $65,000 deposit we gave her never got deposited into the Allison McCluskey Escrow Agency account as stipulated in our contracted. It stayed in an account that was controlled by Allison Layton personally. That is why it took almost a year to get back $55,000 of the $65,000 we deposited.

PLEASE call or email Lt. Tim Staab of the Glendora Police Department. At the time we contacted him (about a year ago) he couldn’t do much because we were the first complaint. We are forever grateful to him for helping us retrieve $2500 of our money.

I am happy to hear I am not alone!! I am so thankful that someone created a blog like this. I hope we can all take this company down and all eventually get paid! Here is my story if anyone is interested:
March 30th 2011 I signed up with Miracles Egg Donation to become an egg donor. That following day March 31st 2011, I received a phone call from the company telling me I had already been picked by a couple!! I thought that was insanely fast but I decided it must have been meant to be and I was excited to start the journey that would result in giving someone a baby. At first I was dealing with a lady named Debbie who seemed to be very nice and very anxious to get the ball rolling. Shortly after that…mid April I was starting the process of tests, phone interviews, etc…. where I was then dealing with another lady named Amy D’Amico. She also seemed very sweet in the beginning…. As things went along and I got closer to my egg retrieval date, I rarely heard from Amy anymore. They all seemed to be very out of touch with me! My concern at that point was, as it states in my contract, that I would receive $500 upfront when I started my injections. I started my injections on June 13th 2011…so after numerous phone calls and emails wondering where my money was, I FINALLY received a check on July 7th 2011 for the total amount of $500. (Almost an entire month later!!!!) That’s when I realized things started to get a little suspicious…
On July 5th 2011, I had my egg donor procedure. On July 6th I received a phone call from my nurse telling me that my last injection filled with the hcg hormone, was not found in my blood stream. It blows my mind that doctors would not give me one last final blood test before a major procedure to make sure the hormone was in my system. Anyways, point being, they supposedly were not able to retrieve any eggs. My next phone call that same day was to Allison Layton at Miracles. (because yet again I was pushed off to deal with another girl.. I never knew who to contact) ….after several phone tags we finally spoke and I broke the news to her. She then spoke with my IP’s (intended parents) and they had asked if I would redo the whole process for them. Without any hesitation I said “YES”…
I then started to go through an emotional roller coaster. I couldn’t believe everything I went through.. I put my body through hell, I missed several hours of work, and so on… After all this, I felt it had been a complete waste of time. I was an emotional wreck. I got back in touch with Allison a couple days later to ask her about compensation. She straight up told me “let me see what I can do to get you some money for everything you went through” …well, several days passed and I never heard back from her.
I could not start my second cycle until I got my period. So, my doctor put me on a mediation that would induce it. I put out of pocket my own money for the medication in which I was told would be compensated for. Still to the day, I haven’t seen a dime. At this point October was approaching and i was getting ready to officially start my second cycle. I called Allison at Miracles to let her know.. But when I called.. I got a disconnected dial tone!! I couldn’t even believe what I was hearing. My doctor tried calling as well and she got the same disconnected dial tone. I went online and did some research and realized that they had a different number posted on the website. I left them a message, and again.. No return phone call. I then sent Allison an email explaining my disappointment in the company and asked her why they changed there phone number and wouldn’t let there clients know!!!! She actually emailed me back and said “we sent an email out to all our clients letting them know” …I didn’t believe her for one second. I knew she must have been hiding something. I had also asked her about the compensation she was going to “look in to” for me for going through the first cycle. She called me several days later and explained in her “sweet bubbly voice” that I could not receive any money since they were not able to get any eggs the first time around!??? She said that because there was no HCG found in my blood that it was breach of contract.
Anyways, this now brings us to October 10th 2011 when I started my second cycle of injections. Within the time I started this cycle of injections to the time of my procedure I still never heard any word from Allison. My doctor called her and left her several messages as well as emailed to let her know when my procedure date was. Still, no response!! Allison had promised to send out a RN to give me the last HCG injection so there wouldn’t be a screw up this time around. Well due to the lack of communication, that was never set up. My nurse was fed up at this point and hated to see what was happening to me so she had offered to meet up with me at the time I needed to receive that injection. So again, another promise broken and another thing I had to handle on my own without the support of the egg donation company. So on October 20th 2011 my nurse met me at my sisters house at exactly 11:00pm to inject me with the HCG.
Two days later, on October 22nd 2011 I officially had my 2nd egg donor procedure. They got 13eggs and everything was a success… Except for one thing… Still no word from Allison. I knew I had to take further action so I called the attorney that was representing me through this process. She wasn’t surprised at all to hear about Allison and her lack of communication. I told her that my nurse heard through the grape vine that my IP’s had put my money in a trust fund/escrow account. My attorney had no clue about it but gave me the contact info for the attorney who was representing my IP’s. On October 30th 2011 I sent him an email explaining that I have not been paid my remaining balance of $4,500. But, still to this day no word from him. On November 1st 2011, I sent an email as well as called my nurse… Crying and begging for help! I didn’t know who else to turn to for answers. But, still to this day, no word from her either. I then turned back to my attorney and sent out another email that I was getting nowhere. She called me back right away but still didn’t have much info for me other then hearing rumors that Miracles offices were vacant and that several other girls had not been payed either. You could only imagine the pit in my stomach and the disgust I had for Allison. This same day, November 1st 2011, I decided to give it one last shot and email Allison. I knew calling her would be pointless because every time I tried, it just went straight to voicemail. Anyways, I wrote her an email and expressed my anger. I asked her where the heck my money was because as it says in my contract, I am suppose to be paid within 5 business days of my procedure. Well it had been 6 business days at this point.
On November 2nd 2011 I actually received an email back from Allison. I was in shock!!! Well, the email stated that she was “sorry to hear that I was unhappy with her company, and best of luck to me” BUT she DID NOT say a SINGLE WORD about my money!! I wrote her back right away telling her to stop beating around the bush and to pay me my money that was owed to me! In the mean time… I decided to google and do some major research on this company. Thats when I came across this blog. I was sick to my stomach that one person was capable of such a cruel act. I felt so used!
I then wrote Allison another email telling her I was fully aware of the blogs out there and that if I didn’t hear back from her, I would take legal action. Well surprise surprise, she got scared, and wrote me back. Asked me what my correct address was so she could send my payment. But I don’t believe for one second that she is going to send it. I told her to send me an email to confirm she had sent it. Today is now November 4th 2011 and I still have no payment, no email, 13 less eggs, and a massive headache over the emotional stress this has caused me.
For me, this has now gone way beyond just Allison cutting me a $4,500 check. (which should really be $9,500 for doing it twice)
The way she treated me, the lack of communication, the lies… It just breaks my heart. I gave away a part of me and she just ruined what could have been an amazing experience. Giving someone eggs to create a baby is no joke, we weren’t dealing with baseball trading cards here.. This is major stuff. No one who hasn’t dealt with Allison will ever understand how I’m sure we are all feeling at this exact moment but all I can say is I am not okay with any of this.

Best of Luck to all you girls!! I’m working hard to investigate further and hopefully try to put a stop to this horrible company!!

Donorvictim, you might want to contact the authorities in Idaho. Rumor has it that’s where Allison Layton is running to. My guess is she will still try to operate her business and dupe people, until she is forced to shut it down. The FBI is your best hope at this point. Or maybe some news station. They might be interested in investigating Miracles Egg Donation shenanigans.

This thread is apparently someone that has a personal not professional issue with Allison. Someone that is doing business with her would not claim to know about her kids, types of cars she drives or about a Uhaul van or someone taking a leave from the office for stress. This is obviously a person or ex worker that is upset and trying to slander her name. Shame on you for doing this!!
The postings are so obvious that whomever this is has inside knowledge of some issues, and some that I might add are incorrect only what one is assuming. I know some of her ex employees and can only guess that these threads are from her. It is sad that someone has to try and slander an individual to make themselves feel good about one self.

ME—she did not screw over her employees…she was more than fair with them, I know that she had to let a couple go because they would not work. What a concept working for money. The only mistake she made with her employees is that she hired friends…which in my opinion is not a good mix since it is much more difficult to have that talk with them when they are not working up to the standards in which they should. I am having difficulty with this and hired a friend when she was in need and has been a good employee for 3 years but all of a sudden has decided she is tired of working and would rather now do minimal work and I have to go through the steps to get rid of her. Allison did make a mistake..hired friends in need of jobs..lesson learned do not mix friendship and business.
Again, my statement stands that these threads are from a couple of individuals that do not like Allison and want to slander her name..and one that I find highly suspicious is that someone contacted the Glendora PD and then they got money back. The Glendora PD would not have jurisdiction in this type of matter to officially make her give money back. Many holes in these stories and things that do not make sense and for someone to claim to be involved with her in a business manner would not know about some of the personal items such as a moving van and etc. This is obviously someone that thinks they know the entire story. I have to laugh at the pathetic individuals that think they know everything and again are slandering her name!!! Miracles doors are not closed as someone has indicated.

I had my eggs removed with Miracles at the end of October and got my check when I flew back home. I read about this while I was in the middle of my doctor appointments and got worried, but I did not have a problem. If there was a problem I do not know about it since I have not had my eggs removed before. I worked with Allison, another lady, and the nurse at the doctors office the most. Everyone was very helpful. I only had some trouble changing my work schedule around the appointments. But I got my check within a few days or maybe it was a week after I got home. I don’t know if it worked if the lady got pregnant though?