Things I Wish Someone Had Told Us When We Began Our Journey
Something that Nicole Fowle & I discovered when we were first researching how to become parents through surrogacy: No one talks about it. Despite the…
Category: Voices of Intended Parents
Blog posts written by Intended Parents
Surrogacy in the Normal World
Intended parents, gestational carriers, pre birth order, and so much more lingo. There is a lot of vocabulary in surrogacy that you learn and adjust…
Intended Fathers Journey Through Surrogacy
Building our family through a surrogacy journey in the U.S. was probably the best decision we could have made. We became fathers to two wonderful…
I was diagnosed with MRKH (Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome).
When I was 16 years old, I was diagnosed with MRKH (Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome). I was born without a uterus, meaning I am unable to conceive.…
My Experience as an Intended Mother While Our Surrogate was Pregnant with Our Long-awaited Son
In March 2020, another woman gave birth to my son in Nevada, 2,226 miles away from my home in Florida. The journey to reach that…
My Take on Surrogacy Agencies
When Seth and I decided that we needed a surrogate to bring a baby into this world, we were in a fragile part of our…
An Undiagnosed Disease and Our Path to Surrogacy
“The path that brought me to surrogacy involves a long journey with an undiagnosed disease” I have struggled with health issues for most of my…
How My Placenta Gave Me Cancer and Prevented Me From Carrying Another Child: Our Path To Surrogacy
My pregnancy and cancer diagnosis In October 2016, my husband and I decided to start building our family, and I luckily got pregnant right away.…
Curious About How Much Surrogacy Costs? Here’s How Much We Spent
You’ve undoubtedly heard that surrogacy is really expensive—like, really expensive. If you ask this question in Facebook groups, you’ll probably hear that you need to…
