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My advice to all future gay intended dads through surrogacy: Do not put yourself through more in-clinic sperm deposits than you have to. It’s miserable. Save yourself the time, travel, and anxiety and keep the frozen sperm until you are holding all your children and enjoying your completed family.
They say it takes a village to raise a child. What if we had our own Gay Dad Village? A place that is safe for all who want to become or are gay dads, to share advice and stories, and to support each other.
It’s been over a month since I have written about our surrogacy journey. I didn’t have the mental bandwidth to write after our failed third transfer and adjusting to the reality of having to start over. My husband and I needed some time. So where are we now? After 3 years, we are back at selecting an egg donor. Read more about how we approached this process the second time and how it was different…
Setbacks are part of every surrogacy journey, but I didn’t think we would experience a setback of this magnitude. We are out of embryos, so we have to go back to the very beginning and redo our entire journey. Read more to see how we are approaching this complete reset, and what we will do differently this time around.
There is more focus on male fertility now than ever before. While it is known that certain classes of drugs like those used in chemotherapy are especially toxic for sperm and fertility, there is less known about the impact of more common medications. A recent real world study analyzed databases from the United States and Europe and identified medications potentially causing male infertility or…
‘Attachment’ refers to the relationship between an infant and a parent where an infant displays a tendency to seek comfort and protection from their parents when they feel scared, anxious, or vulnerable. This attachment has been shown to be critical to a child’s future social development and mental well-being. Essentially, the relationship infants have with their parents is foundational to all…
A brief description of the days before, during, and after our second embryo transfer as international gay intended dads.
I have never been a fan of Gilmore Girls, and I can confidently say I never will be. Why? Because Gilmore Girls hates surrogacy.
As a physician, I believe that research is the best way to keep the discussion around surrogacy objective, leading to policies and regulation that are based on science and not opinion. Last November, the first study of its kind was published that followed surrogates 20 years after their journey to evaluate their psychological health and contact with the families they helped. At Gay Dad Reporter, I…
Kevin Timms is a new gay dad who talked with me about his path to fatherhood, the surprises of surrogacy, and his dedication to surrogacy transparency for other intended parents (IPs).
