In the wake of recent international scandals surrounding surrogacy and the resulting public outrage, last month Thailand’s parliament voted to ban commercial surrogacy. This past year’s international media coverage of the 2013 birth of Baby Gammy, the infant boy with Down’s Syndrome born into a complex surrogacy involving a Thai surrogate mother and Australian intended…
Q: I was wondering how many times is too many to be a surrogate? I have a friend who is going on her 5th time and I wonder if that’s healthy especially when she has already had 4 kids of her own!
Finding ways to eat healthy during the holidays is tough enough, but add pregnancy into the mix and things can get confusing quickly. Women who are expecting face new food restrictions that they didn’t have to deal with when they weren’t pregnant, making certain foods off-limits. So which foods are forbidden and which are welcome?…
When a woman first thinks about becoming a surrogate mother, often times the thing that comes to mind is how easy it was for HER to have become pregnant and given birth to her own child/ren. We often hear a woman state “my husband just has to look at me and I become pregnant” or…
The Surrogate’s Husband…or ‘YOUR’ surrogate’s husband plays an important, if not understated, role in the entire surrogacy journey.
As a gestational surrogate to 5 beautiful children, a girl in 2007, and boy/girl twins in both 2009 and 2012, one of the most common questions I am asked is “Why?”. Many people do not understand the motivations behind deciding to carry someone else’s baby.
