What Happens After a Surrogate Gives Birth?

What happens after a surrogate delivers and everyone goes home?

In this episode of Create A Happy Family, Whitney sits down with Barette Best, a licensed postpartum doula and Surrogacy Education & Engagement Specialist at Egg Donor & Surrogate Solutions, to talk about a part of the surrogacy journey that doesn’t always get as much attention: the fourth trimester.

So much of a surrogacy journey is focused on getting to delivery. But once the baby is born and the journey everyone spent months preparing for is technically over, the surrogate begins a transition of her own—one that isn’t always an obvious part of preparing for surrogacy.

Whitney and Barette talk about a surrogate’s life after a surrogacy journey, why the fourth trimester deserves its own conversation, and the new Fourth Trimester Program created to provide Egg Donor & Surrogate Solutions surrogates with an additional layer of support after delivery.

In this episode, we discuss: