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On multiple occasions in the last years, people have suggested we turn to a gestational carrier (GC)  to create our family. In many circumstances, we find this is suggested even before adoption. I think most people have this fanciful idea that surrogacy is easy and affordable. Because, really, it sounds pretty straight forward. How hard is it to pull out a few eggs from me, introduce them to a few sperm from… Read More

In my mind we’ve been slow to embrace adoption as our route to having children – we first started to seriously consider it back in March/April 2014 after our 4th miscarriage. In fact, my very first post on the subject was on April 9, 2014. It seems like some people just know that they will adopt a child(ren). For better or worse, we were not those people at all! 1 year ago,… Read More