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When love crosses borders, laws get messy.
In this episode, Richard Westoby and Julio Gaggia unpack the beautiful, chaotic, and often unfair reality of IVF and surrogacy in Europe — and why they built a new platform to fix it.
From Argentina to Amsterdam, they talk about new beginnings, legal limbo, empowering women in sports, and why community matters when the system doesn’t.
✈️ What you’ll hear:
• The wild truth about Europe’s patchwork surrogacy laws
• Why some same-sex couples still have to leave the EU to build families
• How women athletes are leading a new reproductive-rights revolution
• The launch of the new IVF Daddies website — built for stories, support & sanity
This isn’t policy talk — it’s real people, real bureaucracy, real hope.
Chapters
00:00 New Beginnings and Community Building
02:47 Challenges in Surrogacy and IVF in Europe
05:24 Legal Complexities and Personal Stories
07:54 Cost Considerations in IVF and Surrogacy
10:51 The Role of Medication in Reproductive Processes
13:34 Navigating International Surrogacy and Legal Issues
16:26 Positive Developments in Women's Health and Sports
18:59 Empowerment and Community Support
🌍 Join the movement: https://ivfdaddies.com
💌 Share your story: https://ivfdaddies-newsletter.beehiiv.com/
💬 DM us @IVFDaddies — your experience might be the next episode.
🎧 Press play, pour a drink, and realize Europe’s fertility map makes zero sense — until you hear it from those living it.
By JULIO GAGGIA AND RICHARD WESTOBY5
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When love crosses borders, laws get messy.
In this episode, Richard Westoby and Julio Gaggia unpack the beautiful, chaotic, and often unfair reality of IVF and surrogacy in Europe — and why they built a new platform to fix it.
From Argentina to Amsterdam, they talk about new beginnings, legal limbo, empowering women in sports, and why community matters when the system doesn’t.
✈️ What you’ll hear:
• The wild truth about Europe’s patchwork surrogacy laws
• Why some same-sex couples still have to leave the EU to build families
• How women athletes are leading a new reproductive-rights revolution
• The launch of the new IVF Daddies website — built for stories, support & sanity
This isn’t policy talk — it’s real people, real bureaucracy, real hope.
Chapters
00:00 New Beginnings and Community Building
02:47 Challenges in Surrogacy and IVF in Europe
05:24 Legal Complexities and Personal Stories
07:54 Cost Considerations in IVF and Surrogacy
10:51 The Role of Medication in Reproductive Processes
13:34 Navigating International Surrogacy and Legal Issues
16:26 Positive Developments in Women's Health and Sports
18:59 Empowerment and Community Support
🌍 Join the movement: https://ivfdaddies.com
💌 Share your story: https://ivfdaddies-newsletter.beehiiv.com/
💬 DM us @IVFDaddies — your experience might be the next episode.
🎧 Press play, pour a drink, and realize Europe’s fertility map makes zero sense — until you hear it from those living it.