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Building a Relationship with Your Surrogate: Tips for Intended Parents
When intended parents are exploring the possibility of surrogacy and before they embark on a surrogacy journey, we get a lot of questions around how parents and surrogates are matched. We also get a lot of questions around how healthy, happy parent and...
How to Talk to Your Kids About September 11: An Age-By-Age Guide
My daughter just turned 8, and for a long time I tried to treat September 11 like any other day. However, I don't know if that's really possible anymore. As parents, we should be the ones deciding when and how our kids learn about 9/11, but the fact is...
The Dreaded Family Tree Assignment in Adoption
The Dreaded Family Tree Assignment stirs anxiety in the hearts of many adoptive and foster families. We worry that our kids will feel different, or that they will feel pressured to overshare. And our hearts really break if our beautiful child does not have...
Explaining Sperm and Egg Donors to Children
For parents who use donors to conceive, an unexpected challenge of the process can be explaining the situation to the child. Here, experts offer tips and provide sample scripts for talking to kids about their donors. Four years ago, my partner and I were...
4 Signs Your Baby Is Going Through a Growth Spurt
Asking if a baby is having a growth spurt is like asking if a sloth is having a tired spell. It's kind of what they do. Babies grow much faster in their first year of life than at any other time except in utero. A typical school-aged child grows about 2...
Is Surrogacy the Right Choice for You?
There are two types of surrogacy — traditional surrogacy and gestational surrogacy. In traditional surrogacy, a surrogate mother is artificially inseminated, either by the intended father or an anonymous donor, and carries the baby to term. The child is...
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Surrogacy Contracts Explained
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