November 9, 2024
Is a Doula Right for You and Your IPs?
Are you considering having a doula attend your labor and delivery? Do you and your IPs know everything a certified, experienced doula can offer gestational surrogates and new parents? Here are just a few of the services a doula can offer: What Can You Expect From a Doula? A doula can serve as your birthing […]
November 9, 2024
Coping with the Stress of Gestational Surrogacy
Gestational surrogacy can be stressful for both the surrogate and the IPs. For the surrogate, she must balance her desire to achieve and maintain a healthy pregnancy with the challenges of managing her daily life and relationship with her intended parent partners. For IPs, surrogacy can just be one more step in a long road […]
November 9, 2024
What are the Legal Concerns of Surrogacy?
Intended parents or gestational surrogates may be so excited about finding the right match and creating a new family that they don’t think about potential legal issues. But there are legal factors that must be taken into consideration to ensure that all parties are protected. What Legal Factors Must Be Considered?
November 9, 2024
Talking to Children About Gestational Surrogacy
Gestational surrogacy can be a challenge for many adults to understand. Explaining it to children can be even trickier. But children who are surprisingly observant have many questions. And you need to prepare them for the questions and criticisms they may hear outside your home as well. What you share with your children depends on […]
November 9, 2024
Parenting via Surrogacy – An Option for All Walks of Life
Parenthood should be within the reach of all, whether you are a traditionally married couple, single or an unmarried couple. But unmarried couples and singles face additional obstacles that married couples may not encounter.
November 9, 2024
Surrogacy and Embryos: The Ins and Outs of Custody
With recent celebrity news shining a spotlight on the topic of embryo custody, we wanted to take a few moments to discuss options for embryos that are generated during the surrogacy process. Embryos that are not implanted initially are frozen and stored until they are needed.
November 9, 2024
How to Write a Birth Plan for Surrogate Pregnancies: Tips for IPs and Surrogates
Writing a comprehensive birth plan can ensure that the birthing process goes as smoothly as possible. Labor and delivery can be unpredictable and it’s tough to make decisions in the moment, especially because so many people can be involved in a surrogate birth. Committing your plans to paper well in advance of the surrogate’s due […]
November 9, 2024
Helping Build Families through Your Egg Donation
If you’ve never struggled with infertility, it’s easy to take your own fertility for granted, but for some couples, the lack of viable eggs prevents them from building their own families. Your willingness to donate eggs could make all the difference for a childless couple. Being an egg donor allows you to help couples to […]
November 9, 2024
What Are the Qualifications to be a Gestational Surrogate?
Are you thinking about becoming a gestational surrogate? Intended parents hoping to build families through surrogacy are grateful that you would even consider it. Helping to create families is a noble calling, but there are some qualifications that must be met to ensure that the journey goes smoothly for everyone involved.
