... it's a very good place to start ...
Just kidding. I won't be singing, I promise.
So if you are here, welcome! We are so excited to be on this journey and to be sharing it with all of you. After months of thinking, researching, talking with people, reading blogs ... we finally made the decision to move forward with applying to an agency for me to become a gestational carrier/surrogate.
Tidbit of knowledge: there are two types of surrogates, gestational and traditional. In gestational surrogacy (what I am doing), the surrogate mother is not genetically related to the child. At all. The embryo is created from the egg and sperm of the intended parents (or a donor of one or the other, or both). A traditional surrogate uses her own egg, and the sperm of the intended father or a donor.
So, how did we got here. Well, not to toot my own horn but I have a record of being a complete rockstar during pregnancy and delivery. And I actually love it. But, we have no desires to have any more children of our own. I look at the kiddos and I feel complete. I have actually had this in the back of my mind for a long time now. A few months ago I started my research more seriously and started talking with my husband more and more ... and it just came to happen! I am excited at the potential to help make a family - to be trusted to carry someone's child. I get goosebumps thinking about it. I can not imagine life without our kids. I can not even pretend to know or imagine how someone feels to not be able to carry their own baby. I feel like I have been blessed and we are in a good position as a family to be able to help another.
I am so excited for this journey. I ask my friends, if you pray, just pray for everyone involved. Especially the family I will be matched with. I also ask for support. I have a feeling I am in for a ride with all the medications I will have to take and preparing for this journey in general.
If this is something that we need might need to take a break from talking to one another for a while, I understand. I know some of you out there have your own struggles with fertility and please know, I think about you all the time and hope your time is near. You are so strong and the journey you are on is so unfair.
with love,
Kristen
Just kidding. I won't be singing, I promise.
So if you are here, welcome! We are so excited to be on this journey and to be sharing it with all of you. After months of thinking, researching, talking with people, reading blogs ... we finally made the decision to move forward with applying to an agency for me to become a gestational carrier/surrogate.
Tidbit of knowledge: there are two types of surrogates, gestational and traditional. In gestational surrogacy (what I am doing), the surrogate mother is not genetically related to the child. At all. The embryo is created from the egg and sperm of the intended parents (or a donor of one or the other, or both). A traditional surrogate uses her own egg, and the sperm of the intended father or a donor.
So, how did we got here. Well, not to toot my own horn but I have a record of being a complete rockstar during pregnancy and delivery. And I actually love it. But, we have no desires to have any more children of our own. I look at the kiddos and I feel complete. I have actually had this in the back of my mind for a long time now. A few months ago I started my research more seriously and started talking with my husband more and more ... and it just came to happen! I am excited at the potential to help make a family - to be trusted to carry someone's child. I get goosebumps thinking about it. I can not imagine life without our kids. I can not even pretend to know or imagine how someone feels to not be able to carry their own baby. I feel like I have been blessed and we are in a good position as a family to be able to help another.
I am so excited for this journey. I ask my friends, if you pray, just pray for everyone involved. Especially the family I will be matched with. I also ask for support. I have a feeling I am in for a ride with all the medications I will have to take and preparing for this journey in general.
If this is something that we need might need to take a break from talking to one another for a while, I understand. I know some of you out there have your own struggles with fertility and please know, I think about you all the time and hope your time is near. You are so strong and the journey you are on is so unfair.
with love,
Kristen
