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.
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...
Staci’s Journey: Zigzag to the finish line
CEO and Founder of Family Source Consultants (FSC), Staci Swiderski shares her personal journey as an intended parent, welcoming a son via gestational surrogacy in 2005 and her experience as a known egg donor. Her own fertility challenges led her to found...
Navigating the Emotional Journey of Surrogacy
Featured in the AllPaths Magazine, 2024 Volume 2 By Lisa Schuman Embarking on the surrogacy journey is an extraordinary and significant decision. It involves a complex, emotionally charged, and often lengthy process. As an intended parent, you may feel the...
Forever Grateful
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2023 Volume 3 By C.C. It was just a day after my emergency hysterectomy. My husband came into my hospital room, leaned over to give me a kiss and asked how I was feeling since the surgery. After hearing about how I was doing...
Parenthood After Cancer was Worth the Wait
Guest Post By Megan Scherer, Mom to Elliott and Co-Founder of Worth the Wait Charity When my husband was diagnosed with testicular cancer three years into our marriage, I knew life was going to change but never expected these twists and turns and the happy...
Biological Family Building for LGBTQ+ Persons
Join Dr. Mark Leondires, medical director of IllumeFertility and founder of GayParentsToBe for this overview of biological family building options for LGBTQ+ people. This discussion covers clinical options for lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer people that are...
Conversations with Children About Donor Conception and Surrogacy
Join family building counselor Ellen S. Glazer, LICSW and explore how potential parents and parents of children through egg, sperm, or embryo donation and/or gestational surrogacy can become proud and confident storytellers who look forward to conversations...
All About Surrogacy
Join Bruce Hale, an Massachusetts attorney specializing exclusively in assisted procreation, for an introduction to surrogacy drawn from his extensive experience as a legal practitioner and as a parent who has gone through this remarkable process...
Family Building through Gestational Surrogacy
Guest Post by Chrissy Hanisco, Esq. For almost 40 years gestational surrogacy has provided a medically safe way for individuals who cannot carry a pregnancy to have a baby. However, the process is also complex, expensive, and full of potential pitfalls....
From Adversity to Advocacy
By Kate Weldon LeBlanc Soon after Lori Berube and Ryan Gagne got engaged, they started planning to build their family. “We knew we wanted to be parents,” Lori explains. “And we didn’t want to wait.” So Lori went for a check-up with an obstetrician, rather...
A Story of Hope
Walk around any city or town on a sunny day, and you’ll see numerous pregnant families. Some of those families may even have 1 or 2 children in tow. Go to a family gathering, and you’ll see your relative’s kids chasing after one another. Maybe they’re...