Open enrollment is a critical time for our agency. It’s the time of year when gestational carriers who do not have a health insurance plan that covers surrogacy can apply for one through the Marketplace (also known as the Affordable Healthcare Act). For 2023, the open enrollment period begins November 1, 2022, and ends January […]
Tag Archives: Intended parents
Ready for Another Journey!
Gestational surrogates choose to travel the path of surrogacy for a variety of different reasons. Many women want to share the joy they have found in becoming a parent by helping other couples who cannot have a child on their own. Other women have simply enjoyed being pregnant and miss the experience despite their own […]
The Donor Sibling Registry & How to Sign Up
The Donor Sibling Registry (DSR) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2000 to assist individuals conceived as a result of sperm, egg or embryo donation who are seeking to make mutually desired contact with others with whom they (or their children) share genetic ties. The DSR has more than 75,000 members worldwide and has facilitated thousands of connections […]
Meet Rachel & Steve, can you be their solution?
Rachel and Steve are a young married couple from Houston, TX. They have a little girl who was born via surrogacy in February 2022, and she is the light of their lives! Unfortunately, Rachel learned that she could not carry a baby in her early 20’s due to her being diagnosed with multiple arterio-venous malformations […]
Texas Surrogate Journey
Choosing surrogacy as the right path for you to have children is a very personal decision. Often times, it is a decision couples feel very alone in when they begin to consider and research surrogacy. That’s why we’ve made the decision to share real couples’ stories of surrogacy – to answer questions, and to also […]
Surrogacy Qualifications
For many women, becoming a surrogate is a dream come true. Many surrogates have expressed that although their family was complete, they missed being pregnant and wanted the opportunity to give another family the gift of a child; these feelings are not uncommon. While becoming a surrogate is an extremely rewarding journey, it is also […]
Lactation Counselor Provides Tips for Exclusively Pumping
Juli Velasquez is highly regarded among our Surrogate Solutions community as the go-to expert on exclusively pumping. As a three-time gestational carrier (single female born in 2015, boy/girl twins born in 2017, and single male born in 2020), Juli pumped after each journey to provide breast milk for her surro babes. She also breastfed both […]
Meet Sarah and Clayton, can you be their solution?
Sarah and Clayton have a beautiful blended family, and they have been married for 3 ½ years. Living in Texas, they have two biological children together, and Clayton has three children from a previous marriage. Sarah and Clayton didn’t meet until Sarah was 38, but she had always longed to be a mother, so she […]
Meet Anna & Jeffrey, can you be their solution?
Dear precious surrogate, We – Anna and Jeffrey (both 35) and our nearly 4-year-old son, Jaxson, wish to meet and complete our family with our missing piece. We always wanted 2 children. We both come from families with brothers and sisters and feel that this bond is so precious. Unfortunately, after several miscarriages and operations […]
“Do you tell a child that they were conceived via egg or sperm donor?”
Written by: Dr. Shannon M. Clark, MD Cheryl Whitney-Huebner, Image Studios Group LLC I knew that trying to become a first-time mom at 40 would be tough. My fears were realized when my first pregnancy ended in miscarriage. Although that loss was devastating, I had no idea just how much more disappointment I was about to […]
A Teacher’s Surrogate Story
We would like to introduce you to our three-time surrogate, Tabatha. Tabatha is a first-grade teacher from Florida and is currently carrying twins. Tabatha says she became a surrogate for 2 reasons, “I wanted to help a family who couldn’t have children, & while I love my job as a teacher, I do not […]
Meet Jennifer and Jason, can you be their solution?
Jennifer and Jason knew when they met that they wanted to have children one day, but after seven years of trying to complete their family, they have had heartache after heartache. In 2015, they easily got pregnant naturally with their first child. However, when they started trying to have another baby, the challenges began. After […]
Benefits of staying Healthy and Fit During Your Pregnancy
While the benefits of staying healthy and fit during pregnancy are great, they can also be very challenging to achieve. For many gestational surrogates, finding the time and energy to eat right and exercise throughout this exciting journey can be much easier said than done. The best way to stick with a routine that will […]
Breastfeeding Awareness Week
After delivery, some gestational carriers (GCs) will pump breastmilk for several weeks or months and send it to the intended parents. The desire for GCs to provide breastmilk for their surrobabes and for how long is a topic that is discussed between the GC and intended parents during the match process. While the benefits for […]
Meet Jordan & Ori, can you be their solution?
Allow us to introduce our Intended Parents Jordan and Ori. They are a same sex couple from Florida, and they have been together for eight years and married for four. From a young age, each of them dreamed of having children, and together they are now starting their surrogacy journey to have a biological child […]
Meet Darren and Priyanka, can you be their solution?
Darren and Priyanka are from the Houston area and have been married for almost six years. On their first date, they talked about their future and wanting to raise a family together. They were engaged within six months of that first date, knowing that it was love at first sight. Unfortunately, soon after they were […]
Meet Josh & Jayme, can you be their solution?
Meet our Intended Parents Josh and Jayme. They are a young married couple who live in the Northeastern US and have been married for four years. From the time they met, they dreamed of having a family together, but unfortunately, Jayme was diagnosed with several chronic illnesses (lupus, fibromyalgia, small fiber peripheral neuropathy, and others) […]
Surrogacy Myths
There are so many myths in the world of surrogacy. With surrogacy, there are always good vibes, happy thoughts, and baby dust to wish the surrogate and her intended parent(s) good luck on their transfer day, but let us clarify some of the misconceptions you may have heard. Myth: A woman will opt for […]
ASRM Guidelines: What Surrogates Need to Know
If you are considering a surrogacy journey, we first and foremost want to thank you for your generosity in wanting to help intended parents achieve their dream of having a family. Our team could not do what we do without our amazing surrogates. As an agency, we follow the American Society of Reproductive Medicine’s (ASRM) […]
Our family is how it always should have been
Written By: Carrie Collier-Brown At age 31, Carrie Collier-Brown was on the verge of an exciting new phase in her life. She had just graduated from law school and was preparing to take the bar exam. A newlywed, she was also looking forward to starting a family and had been trying to conceive for just […]