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13 Tips For Dealing With Surrogacy Shaming
Suggestions on how to interact with the people in your life who don’t agree with your decision to become a surrogate. Imagine you’re attending a party, either at work, your home, or at a relative’s house, and you’re having a wonderful time. Then, you make...
Surrogacy: Issues to Resolve Prior to Hiring Attorneys
Writer: Candace O’Brien, Attorney at Law During my years of representing intended parents and surrogates, one issue I have occasionally seen, particularly in independent match situations and sometimes in agency match situations, is when Intended Parents...
Adopted Child Syndrome: Causes, Effects, and How To Prevent
Adoption is a great alternative for parents who aren’t bestowed with or do not want to go through the process of having their biological kids. But nurturing adopted children is not easy as they could come with a psychological baggage. Adopted child...
How I Made $60,000 As a Surrogate Mother
From Julie Williams as told to Beth Collins. The first time I thought about being a surrogate mother was in 1999. I'd just given birth to my fourth — and last — child at 27, and I was reading a touching magazine article about a woman who'd carried her...
10 Things NOT To Say To People Experiencing Infertility
So, let’s say that you are in the grocery store picking up your umpteenth prescription for a progesterone-estrogen whatever crazy medication you have just been told to take and the lady at the checkout counter says, “Any news on the baby front?” What...
Pros and Cons of Popular Surrogacy Financing
Q: My husband and I are going to start our surrogacy journey soon and need to take out a loan to cover the expenses. What type of surrogacy financing should we seek? Should we borrow against our house, our 401k or consider an independent financing company...
10 Things Not To Say To Your Adopted Children
We are taking a note from adoptee and So Much Better With Age blogger, Jamie, on her top things to not say to your adopted children. Full disclosure: I am not an expert by any means and this is just my opinion as an adoptee. You don’t have to agree with...
Random Acts of Kindness
What better way to begin the New Year with your little ones than to show them how to be kind? However, instead of just leading by example allow them to get involved in the act of kindness. Studies have shown that toddlers enjoy giving gifts more than...
Surrogacy: Our Family’s Journey
Surrogacy: Our Family’s Journey chronicles the ups and downs of surrogacy as experienced by James Phillip: from making the decision to use a surrogate, each step along the way, presenting both sides of the process and on to the creation of a family and the...
9 Newborn Tips and Tricks
Author and mother, Nina Garcia, shares her tips and tricks to help new parents with the challenge of the newborn stage. Exhausted doesn’t even describe the newborn days. Waking up delirious from sleep deprivation multiple times a night. Struggling with the...