The Surrogacy Blog

"Alex and Yoni are a wonderful, amazing, absolutely awesome couple. We hit it off really well, right from our very first phone conversation," Brittany reports. "We survived the hectic travel craziness, which is fun to talk about, but obviously was really stressful at the time. You really cannot even make up what we went through

I tend to be a person who researches everything, and when I first began thinking about being a surrogate, I wanted to know everything about it. I quickly came upon ARTparenting’s website and decided pretty fast that I wanted to work with them. Meryl and Julie are absolutely amazing.

Gina was happy to work with a gay couple, and the fact that they were from Israel she found fascinating. She also liked that the two men were virtually the same ages as Gina and her husband, and had been together exactly the same amount of time.

Listen to an amazing podcast from the Jewish Women's Archive "Can We Talk" series featuring a Jewish couple who struggled with infertility for years, then finally decided to work with a gestational surrogate. 

Q. So how did you get from dealing with your own infertility to deciding to serve as a gestational surrogate yourself? What was the impetus?

A. Like many couples, my husband and I found infertility to be an incredibly stressful, emotional thing to have to go through.

Stephanie lives in the small Midwestern town of Augusta, Wisconsin and works as a senior operational trainer at United Healthcare. Her husband works in construction as a drywall installer. ARTparenting recently talked with her about her experience as a gestational surrogate for a gay couple.

ARTparenting talks with gestational surrogate Kristina about international surrogacy. Like many women who decide to be gestational surrogates, Kristina enjoys being pregnant, and always found giving birth to be a positive, fairly easy experience. A psychiatric nurse by profession, Kristina lives with her husband and four children.