The relationship between Intended Parents, IP’s, and a Surrogate has the potential to be very stressful, and if the match of the IP’s and the Surrogate is not good, there is the potential for a very antagonistic relationship with the person who is carrying your baby. Once you have chosen a surrogate, and she becomes pregnant, it is a relationship that you must sustain until the baby is born.



From the surrogate’s perspective, many surrogates choose to work only through an…

Are you or someone you know trying to have A Family of their Own? Family Forward Surrogacy and Bridge To Baby are proud to be participating at the upcoming Family of My Own Fertility & Adoption Conference on Saturday, May 12 at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner in McLean, VA.



Join us from 8:00am – 2:30pm for…

We all know the terms, waiting to ovulate or waiting to test or the dreaded TWO WEEK WAIT!. But what's the term for, waiting-to-try-again-for-ivf-to-impregnate-our-surrogate-on-our-second-attempt?? WTTAFITIOSOOSA perhaps?

Any waiting game in general sucks! Right now, I'm taking continuous birth control pills, no placebos, and I'm almost on week two of the second pack. I have an appointment with my doctor on Monday and hope to come up with a plan for our second…

Found another website which has a lot of women who seem to want to be a surrogate mother more than the intended parents want a child! They express how it would be a dream for them to give a deserving couple the gift of g-d. They have already had their children and have been impacted in someway with someone who has struggled with infertility. A sister, cousin or best friend. They have easy pregnancies, easy labors and love being pregnant!

I connect with a girl who is beyond…

It feels so good to put the Asherman's battle behind us. No more hormone therapy. No more uncomfortable procedures. False hope. Finally moving on.



I have learned through close friends that surrogacy can be an amazing option to having a biological child. We decide to give it some serious consideration. Why not!?

We've decided not to use an agency with our gestational carrier search. The handful of surrogates and intended mothers that I know pointed me in the…

Throughout all the years I've been trying to conceive the two words that hurt the most are, "just" and "relax". After a year with back to back months of Clomid or injectible hormones and countless unsuccessful IUIs, we finally got pregnant! How? According to my husband, because we were in Las Vegas and I was "relaxed". According to me, it was the month prior…