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Alexis
Experienced Surrogate
Seven Ways To Know If You’re Ready To Be A Surrogate:
Are you ready to be a surrogate? What does it even mean to be ready? Many people ask themselves… Am I ready to be a parent? Am I ready to get married? Am I ready to change careers? How will I know if I’m ready? If you want to know
Why don’t I just find someone to help, and skip the agency?
Surrogacy is such a complicated process, with many moving legal, medical and emotional aspects. Intended parents and surrogates who decide to complete a surrogacy without an agency are responsible for coordinating all the information and communication necessary to make that process happen. It can be complicated enough for someone who’s
How do I tell my friends and family I’m going to be a surrogate?
This is a question that I wish I’d asked more people with experience before naively sharing the news with my own family. Not everyone I told about my news was as excited about it as I thought they should be. I get it now that they were operating with way
What Movies Get Wrong About Being a Surrogate…
Have you ever googled: ‘movies about surrogacy’? Some of the first movies to come up include: Surrogates Together Together A Deadly Adoption When The Bough Breaks I AM Secretly and Stealthily The Handmaid’s Tale Baby Mama The Surrogate (2020) The Surrogate (2013) A Surrogate’s Nightmare Most of these movies look
What’s it like to carry for a couple in another country?
The obvious factors to consider when carrying a baby for a couple in another country are language barriers, cultural differences, and more practically, time differences! Thanks to technology, the ability to communicate across borders, time zones, and even languages, is simple and even free. Getting to know someone from another
Will I have to carry twins?
There is a common misconception that twins and multiples are much more likely with IVF pregnancies and this is not true. Some of this misconception may be based on old practices wherein doctors didn’t have the ability to carefully select tested embryos for viability and instead had to guess on