From the moment I knew that I carried my own child within me, I loved him, and later her, fiercely. All of the big decisions I've faced since their conception, and most of the little ones too, have been made with their best interest in mind. But that maternal instinct, that insanely strong drive to make sure that they thrive, not only while in the ( Read more... )

Holding space today for all the parents who are grieving a loss. Their tiny short lives are not forgotten!


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Today I have a guest writer here from Texas to shed some light what she has learned through her experience with infertility. It's a tough topic to talk about and so I really appreciate Samantha's bravery and honesty:

Five Things I Know About Infertility

Isolation is the absolute worst. In culinary school, we would often joke that the last pot to ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone had a fabulous day yesterday enjoying the fellowship of your family and friends! We had my extended family visiting from out of town for the entire week; my grandparents from FL and my sister & her fiance from NC. We enjoyed everyone's company several times. When at my Uncle's house yesterday we had a crowd of 19 ( Read more... )

Six and a half years ago I entered the community of surrogacy- a world of infertility terms and fertility statistics, traditional and gestational surrogates, egg and sperm donors, intended parents, agencies and clinics, lawyers and contracts, money and insurance, counselors and psychiatric evaluations, testing and medications, ultrasounds and ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, a fellow surrogate put me in touch with a representative of Team Surrogacy. They are always looking for personal and professional stories about the varying aspects of surrogacy. He sent me a short survey to fill out and said a writer would be in touch with me. Just a few days ago I received a call from Angela Peeters wanting ( Read more... )

I sure hope the nicer weather is here to stay finally! It has been a long cold snowy winter here in New England ( Read more... )

It has now been a little over 7 weeks since I have heard any updates from the couple I have been on hold for. I hope she got pregnant with her own child... or perhaps her cycle was delayed. My agent hasn't heard from J ( Read more... )

Well it has been 2 weeks already since our negative beta. I had a rough week physically following me getting off all the medication with headaches and such, but I am doing much better now and feel nearly back to normal with my own hormone levels ( Read more... )

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas holiday surrounded by family and friends. As 2010 comes to a close, I wanted to wish you all peace, love, dreams come true, renewed faith, and prosperity in the upcoming year ( Read more... )