March 23rd could not come fast enough. By that point, we had already booked all of our gestational carrier’s flights and hotel accommodations. Her monitoring appointments showed everything was lining up perfectly for transfer, and for the first time in a long time, it finally felt like things were truly moving forward. I was in the room with our GC and her partner while Rich waited outside in the parking lot. He had just recovered from a cold, and we didn’t want to risk him p

This might honestly be one of the hardest parts of the entire surrogacy process. Not only is the demand for gestational carriers incredibly high, but at the end of the day, you are also asking another person to carry your child. And for someone like me, that level of trust felt enormous. There are several different ways people find a gestational carrier. Some are fortunate enough to have a family member or close friend offer to carry for them. Others work through agencies, wh

Cancer. It’s one of those words you hope never becomes part of your life, and unfortunately, it touches far more people than anyone wishes it did. My beautiful son Logan was born in July 2020, right in the middle of the chaos of Covid. The world felt divided and uncertain, but honestly, all I cared about at the time was making sure my husband and doula would still be allowed to be part of his birth experience with me. The weeks after his arrival went by in a blur. I was deter