November 9, 2024
What Can You Do If Your Family Doesn’t Support Your Decision to Be a Surrogate?
While rewarding, surrogacy can be difficult both physically and emotionally. It’s helpful to be able to lean on your family for support during this time. Unfortunately, sometimes people have a hard time understanding gestational surrogacy or don’t feel that they can support the decision. That’s when you may need to find other resources to partner […]
November 9, 2024
After a Miscarriage: Coping as a Surrogate
For any woman, a miscarriage can be a heart-wrenching experience, but for a gestational surrogate, there is the added worry she has let down the intended parents and the surrogacy agency. It’s important, however, not to blame yourself. Miscarriage is one of those things you simply can’t control and happens to almost every woman. Here […]
November 9, 2024
Postpartum Together
Meet Chelsea! A busy mom of 2 who offers postpartum support for all of us! As a mother of two, I found myself having very different postpartum experiences. With my first, I was prepared for pregnancy and birth but thought everything after the baby was supposed to be “natural/easy” and “blissful.” I spent a lot […]
November 9, 2024
Amber & Nicholas’ Story: A Harrowing Journey
For many couples who choose surrogacy to grow their families, the journey to parenthood is a long one. For new parents Amber and Nicholas, who welcomed their son Sebastian in March, the journey was a marathon more than a decade in the making. Amber and Nicholas met in 2004 and were married in 2008. They […]
November 9, 2024
Louisiana Family’s Surrogacy Journey
It wasn’t long after meeting Daphne, mother of two, that Hank’s bachelor spirit was tamed. The two were soon happily married and ready to begin a family of their own. Although both Hank and Daphne wished to have a baby together, certain roadblocks stood in their way; Daphne is a cancer survivor, and thus unable […]
November 9, 2024
Speaking Out For Third Party LGBTQ+ Services
Infertility affects millions of people worldwide, and thankfully, the taboo surrounding it is slowly fading away. It is no longer a secret that starting a family could involve more than just two individuals, and this is where fertility specialists such as Dr. Daniel Skora come in. Working as a reproductive endocrinologist at Fertility Specialists of […]
November 9, 2024
Creating families through surrogacy
These are truly heartwarming stories that highlight the profound impact surrogacy can have on not only the intended parents but also their extended family members. Surrogacy creates opportunities for grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins to form new roles and relationships within the family structure. The gratitude expressed by the extended family members in these stories […]
November 9, 2024
From Our Hearts to Yours
Welcome to the incredible adventure of Marissa and Kevin, a lively family of four who absolutely adore exciting escapades, outdoor fun, and the warm embrace of togetherness. Their love for quality family time is unshakable, but their journey to expand their family took an unexpected and beautiful twist, introducing them to an extraordinary woman named […]
