In this week’s episode we welcome our first guest onto the podcast! We have a conversation with Mandy, who is a gestational carrier that is currently pregnant. We chatted with her about her experiences with surrogacy, working with an agency, and get her thoughts & tips on the process from a GC’s perspective. Mandy...

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We are finally back with an all new update! We talk about where we stand on the testing our surrogate needed after our last failed transfer and share the results. We also fill you in on the last four months and share our plans for the next transfer.

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After last weeks transfer episode, we’re back to give you the results of the beta blood test, talk about the next steps of where we go from here, and (as always) share our feelings about it all.

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In this episode we give you the latest update on our surrogacy journey! After our cancelled transfer in March, we were on track to try again in June. We talk about our thoughts leading up to the transfer, and fill you in on where we are now.

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After a short break, we return in this episode to answer your questions! We talk about support in the surrogacy world, our hopes for our relationship with our surrogate, how we trust in the process, and much more!

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In this episode, we go in depth into Kate’s Lyme Disease diagnosis and how it led us to our surrogacy journey. We talk about Kate’s fight with Lyme Disease, her various treatments over the years, and how we anticipate Kate’s health effecting how we will be parenting once we have children.

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We’re back with another update on our surrogacy journey! We finally got a clear answer on why our first transfer was cancelled so abruptly and we’ll dive into all the details. When entering into the IVF and surrogacy world you will encounter many obstacles throughout the process, and some are harder to overcome than...

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After being alluded to for numerous episodes, we finally recorded a finance episode where we dive into all the costs associated with the surrogacy process. While pricing can vary widely from state to state, we did our best to include all the possible expense categories that come with a surrogacy journey. We hope that...

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In this episode we give a quick update on our surrogacy journey. With the medical clearance done and the contracts signed, we were scheduled to perform the transfer at the end of March, but we were hit with a bit of a curveball. We discuss our in-the-moment reactions of how we got here and...

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