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My Surrogacy Journey Blog

27 November 2022 California Dreamin’ (of regulating surrogacy agencies)

Lilly Frost and her international surrogacy scheme On 10 July 2022, the LA Times broke the story of Lilly Frost and her international surrogacy scheme. Unlike other surrogacy agencies, Surrogacy Beyond Borders offered IPs guaranteed parenthood for a flat fee, while preaching ‘ethical, transparent and quality

16 November 2022 Men’s Health Month – Your swimmers?

To celebrate Men’s Health month we approached one of My Surrogacy Journey’s experts, to tell us more about Sperm, and how to look after it. Over to you Sam! 👋 My name is Sam and I’m an Embryologist at the Lister Fertility Clinic. I have been asked, and welcomed

3 August 2022 Surrogacy trends for UK nationals; our exclusive findings

My Surrogacy Journey®, has collaborated with researcher Dr Kirsty Horsey, Reader in Law at the University of Kent, with a view to sharing findings from two fascinating sets of data on parental order (PO) applications. This insightful data relates to PO applications incorporating both domestic and international

25 February 2022 An Attitude of Gratitude

The G-SPOT That sweet spot where it’s all happening. Where it’s about giving and receiving. The more you give, the more you get. Some might even call it a guilty pleasure. Yes, you guessed it, we’re talking about Generosity with a scoop of Gratitude thrown in the

25 February 2022 What is your superpower?

This morning, I was watching After Life season 3 on Netflix; in episode 6 Tony talks to Matt about the death of Lisa – no spoilers here – don’t worry! He said, “Caring about stuff that’s what really matters; kindness, making other people feel good.

5 May 2021 Our Founders and their Surrogacy Journey

Trigger warning; Contains information on Infertility, Birth and IVF Failure I’m Michael and I’m married to Wes. We met by complete chance in June 2012 at Birmingham Pride no less, both single and not looking for a relationship, and pretty much from our first meeting I

12 April 2021 Behind the creation of My Surrogacy Journey®

Whilst I’m writing this, Wes is on his 5th Zoom call of the day, I’m also busy finalising our Newsletter (which you’re reading – so thank you!) and I’ve just come off the phone with our website developers discussing changes we’re implementing this month. Typical Day… It’s

11 April 2021 The Rise of a Single Parent Surrogacy Journey

Written by Andrew Spearman & Katherine Martyn “I can’t remember a time when I didn’t entertain the idea of me being a dad. My whole life’s been pointing to this”. As many of you may have already heard, these are the words of David, an Intended Parent

10 April 2021 Mini First Aid; a first for Surrogacy support

Mini First Aid was set up in 2014 with the aim of offering quality baby and child first aid classes to parents and carers. Initially operating from her kitchen in Leeds, mum Kate Ball had a vision of creating relaxed first aid classes where parents

8 April 2021 Carrying my best friends baby.

Written by Emilana It was December 2014, and my best friend Sophie and her husband Jack came over to our house with our Christmas card. Inside was a scan photo, they were pregnant! It was a moment full of joy and happiness. It was also one