by AllPaths Family Building | Nov 18, 2025 | Donor Conception, Family Building Story, Infertility, Podcast, Support, Surrogacy
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 their...
by AllPaths Family Building | Nov 14, 2025 | Family Building Story, 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 carry our...
by AllPaths Family Building | Oct 9, 2025 | IVF, Loss, 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 provide...
by AllPaths Family Building | Jun 24, 2025 | Family Building Story, LGBTQ+, Podcast, Surrogacy
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 different...
by AllPaths Family Building | Feb 25, 2025 | Advocacy, Donor Conception, Family Building Story, Loss, Podcast, Surrogacy
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 navigating the...
by AllPaths Family Building | Dec 3, 2024 | Donor Conception, Family Building Story, Infertility, Podcast, Surrogacy
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 the help...
