LGBTQ+ Families
“My wife and I both wanted to have children. As a gay couple, our options were limited. She wanted a little girl she could show how to bake her famous chocolate mousse cake. I just wanted a child to love, but didn’t want to carry. After a lot of research and tears, we learned about […]
Newborn Feeding If You Can’t Breastfeed
Becoming a parent can happen in many ways, and surrogacy offers a unique experience to anyone that wants to bring a new life into this world. Like any mother who physically carries a child, my clients want to prepare for the feeding process. Hormones don’t change the same way when a surrogate carries the child, and there […]
Gestational Carrier & Intended Parents: Bond & Support
The Relationship Between a Gestational Carrier and Intended Parents For a gestational carrier, pregnancy and delivery are different from carrying her own children. So how do a gestational carrier and the intended parents build a good relationship along the way? It starts, and largely stays, with communication. Communication Between Gestational Carrier and Intended Parents Good […]
Traditional vs Gestational Surrogacy
There are two main types of surrogacy: traditional and gestational. It’s important to understand the difference. TRADITIONAL SURROGACY Traditional surrogacy requires that the surrogate not only carries and delivers a baby for her Intended Parents, but also acts as an egg donor for that baby. A traditional surrogate is artificially inseminated with the Intended Father’s sperm. Therefore, she is genetically […]