Surrogacy
Explore building a family through the gestational carrier/surrogacy process with expert advice from professionals and real-life perspectives from families.
Surrogacy Group
This group is open to all at any stage of building a family through the gestational carrier/surrogacy process, from decision-making to parenting.
This group typically meets on the 3rd Monday of each month at 7:30p EST.
“The Mind is a Muscle”
In this episode of the AllPaths podcast, hosts Emily and Liane sit down with Cynthia, a licensed social worker and seasoned health and wellness coach, who first connected with our organization over twenty years ago as a peer support group attendee. After...
A Financial Transaction and a Gift from God
In this episode of the AllPaths podcast, we sit down with Ruthie, a Boston-area school counselor and educator, to discuss her incredibly complex and high-stakes journey to motherhood. Ruthie’s story begins at age 34, when she and her husband, Chris, faced...
A Different Ride for Everyone
In this episode, Kristy Koser, a licensed professional clinical counselor specializing in reproductive mental health, shares her family building journey. After years of struggling with infertility and experiencing multiple miscarriages during IUI and IVF...
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Kip’s Journey: Validating the “Endo [endometriosis] Odyssey”
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Malcolm "Kip" McKenzie, a retired OBGYN with 35 years of experience with 20 years of focus on treatment of endometriosis, particularly complex surgical management. We discuss the complex and often misunderstood reality...
Nancy’s Journey: From an MRKH Diagnosis to “Two Miracles”
In this episode, we talk with Nancy Weatherby, the Intended Parent Outreach Manager at Circle Surrogacy, about her personal and professional experience with family building through surrogacy. Nancy shares her story of being diagnosed at age 17 with MRKH...
Surrogacy in 2026 and Beyond
By Janene Oleaga, Esq. With some negative press about gestational surrogacy lately, it can be easy to lose sight of the extraordinary gift that surrogacy truly is. Sensational stories grab headlines, and scandal sells more subscriptions than the quiet,...
Rachel’s Journey: Knitting Him Into Existence
This episode features a conversation with Rachel Wilson, a therapist, yoga and meditation instructor, coach, and most recently, a postpartum doula and intended parent support coach. Rachel shares the difficult journey she and her husband undertook to welcome...
Bonding with your Unborn Child during Surrogacy
By Rachel Wilson For someone carrying her own child, developing a bond with them may seem intuitive: she feels them kicking, she talks to them in the middle of the night, she sees them on ultrasound scans and hears their heartbeat. For those of us who can’t...
When “No Uterus” Does Not Mean No Hope: Motherhood Through Surrogacy
Introduction I am sharing an example of a patient case study, with all identifying details removed to protect privacy. The goal is to highlight the unique medical challenges of Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, explain how IVF and surrogacy can...
Bruce’s Journey: “Whose Tummy Did I Come Out Of?”
This episode of the AllPaths podcast features Bruce, an attorney in the Boston area. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Bruce and his husband built their family through surrogacy with gamete donation, going through the process twice with different surrogates in...
Ginanne’s Journey: Children should never feel like there was something shameful or weird about how they were born.
In this episode, London-based American author and journalist Ginanne Brownell recounts her challenging journey of infertility, miscarriage, donor conception, and gestational surrogacy. Now parent to twins born in 2018, Ginanne’s personal experience...
Jen’s Journey: “Families are built on love.”
A born and raised New Yorker, social worker Jen Rachman shares her family’s story from an ovarian cancer diagnosis that sadly left her infertile in her 20s, to the decision that surrogacy was the best route for her and her husband to grow their family. With...