How Your Health Impacts Your Ability to Become a Surrogate

Becoming a gestational surrogate is an incredible gift to a couple in need. By carrying their baby, you will become the answer to their hopes and dreams. Since intended parents invest so much into their surrogacy journey, good health is a critical component to...

What to Do When Fertility Treatment Fails

Starting a cycle of fertility treatment — whether it’s your first time or you’ve experienced previous rounds — brings hope of finally getting the child you’ve always wanted. You may have traveled for treatment and devoted a significant amount of time...

The First Meeting: Five Tips for Intended Parents and Surrogates

The day is fast approaching — the first meeting! Whether you’re intended parents using surrogacy to bring your child into the world or you’re a gestational surrogate mother, there are bound to be a lot of emotions surrounding this first face-to-face...

What Is Postpartum Like for a Surrogate?

Surrogacy is an emotional journey, both for surrogate mothers and the intended parents awaiting their child. The moment you deliver their baby is truly unforgettable. But after months of sacrifice and patience, you may experience a surge of unexpected feelings. The...

Advice for Surrogates

Choosing to become a surrogate mother can be a life-changing moment. You’re helping someone, often a stranger, complete their family with the gift of a child. On this beautiful journey, you’ll experience joy, purpose and pride, but there will also be days...

Surrogacy vs. Adoption

Are you looking to add a new little life to your family? So many couples dream of having a child of their own — but for many, circumstances or fertility can interfere with that dream. If you’re unable to have a child on your own, you still have options — and...

Tips for Traveling with a Newborn

A family visit, holiday gathering or long overdue vacation — there are many reasons to travel with your newborn baby. Whether you’re planning a trip by plane or car, traveling with a newborn comes with a few challenges you’ll want to prepare for....

Surrogate Pregnancy: Four Ways to Balance Family and Surrogacy

The decision to become a surrogate mother is momentous. You’re giving another couple one of the most beautiful gifts — a healthy baby — while caring for and raising a family of your own. Balancing your family and gestational surrogacy is no easy feat. The next...

Four Benefits of Being a Surrogate

Are you considering surrogacy? Becoming a surrogate mother is a big step — but the process comes with so many rewards. As a carrier for another couple or person, you’re offering the ultimate act of generosity — completing their family. And it’s an...

Tips for Coping with IVF Failure

Finding out that your in vitro fertilization treatment has failed can be devastating. As intended parents, you and your partner may feel deep disappointment and even bereavement. You’re not alone. Talk to your fertility specialist about why your IVF may have...