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The Journey to Parenthood of an LGBT Couple from Weston, Florida through Surrogacy in Colombia: A Dream Come True

In recent years, many LGBT couples have turned to surrogacy as a beautiful way to grow their families, but the journey can often come with emotional and legal challenges. For David and Mark, an LGBT couple from Weston, Florida, their path to parenthood became a smooth and deeply fulfilling experience, thanks to their decision to pursue surrogacy in Colombia. The couple, like so many others, was drawn to Colombia for its accessibility, affordability, and the clear, supportive legal framework that ensured their names would be on their child\'s birth certificate ...

STEPHANIE»S EGG DONATION

When Stephanie got accepted into college, she made a promise to herself—she wouldn’t let student loan debt dictate her future. She wanted the freedom to choose her career without financial pressure hanging over her head. Looking for flexible work, she applied to the usual spots—the mall, a restaurant—but nothing felt right. Then, she came across an advertisement about egg donation Florida. She had heard of it before but didn’t know much. All she knew was that women her age were being offered a substantial amount of money. Curious, she started ...

Why Do Egg Donors Get Paid ?

In today’s world, many college-aged women have either seen an ad about egg donation in Florida or know someone who has gone through the process. But have you ever taken a moment to truly understand what it means to be an egg donor? The Gift of Egg Donation Egg donors are young women, typically between the ages of 21 and 27, who help make parenthood possible for those struggling with infertility. After undergoing thorough medical and genetic screenings, a donor follows a carefully monitored process that leads to the retrieval ...

How Will I Be Matched with My Surrogate?

Bundles of Joy, LLC takes many issues into consideration when finding the right surrogate for you and relies on both your and the surrogate’s opinions to finalize the match. We believe that a good match provides the basis for a happy surrogacy journey.Every month, Bundles of Joy, LLC receives over 100 applications from aspiring surrogates from the state of Florida, where laws are most favorable for surrogacy. We rarely receive applications from women who live in other states. In such cases, we consult with our legal professionals to determine whether ...

Surrogacy and Facebook

Your child’s birthday pictures, a joke, somebody’s opinion about the president or an inspirational quote are all posts we normally see on our friends’ Facebook pages.For us, Facebook has been a tremendous tool for completely different reasons. Women wanting to become surrogates post about their everyday life on Facebook. We are able to see pictures of their children and their environment. We see how they express themselves, what language they use and what pictures they choose to post. Sometimes their posts warn us to stay away from them as candidates. ...

Single Vs. Multiple Embryo Transfer in Surrogacy

During the infancy years of In Vitro Fertilization, doctors transfered as many embryos as possible with the hope that at least one of them implants into the uterine lining, resulting in a viable pregnancy. Intended parents are well aware that they could go from not even having one child at home to a sudden full house in only one pregnancy. Let’s not forget that the goal of infertility treatments is to produce “a” healthy pregnancy and delivery, and of course “a” healthy baby. Nowadays, the cost and ...

Positive Communication Between Intended Parents and Their Surrogate

A good time to start open communication with your surrogate is after she has been approved by your RE (reproductive endocrinologist) and contracts have already been signed. It is best to let the lawyers discuss monetary issues and the terms of the contract. This leaves you and your surrogate to talk freely about the experience and both of your expectations.Here are some recommendations:Discuss upfront your desired frequency of contact; both you and your surrogate are busy people involved in your home activities, work and family. It is best to decide ...

The Important Question of Disclosure and Egg Donation

Our children emulate all of our actions.When we think about disclosure related to egg donation we normally think of the child resulting from the donation. Should the child’s parents disclose that they had difficulty conceiving and that she is in this world thanks to the great heart of a young woman she will never meet?Most egg donors are young and although they know that someday they will have a family, they are not taking that into consideration. So many years later, when an egg donor does have her own children, ...

THE LIFE LONG CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW YOUR FAMILY WAS BUILT

Telling your children their real story- how they were conceived by egg donation or embryo donationIn all the literature we have read, we have never found a psychologist that recommends not telling your child that he or she was conceived through Assisted Reproductive Technologies; ie. Donor egg, embryo donation, surrogacy or a combination of those techniques. So the question is How?You can start telling the story when your children are very young; even while your child is growing in the womb. This will allow you as a parent to start ...

A NIGHTMARE SURROGATE

Although finding surrogate is not an easy task, it is important to make sure the surrogate is not only a good candidate, but a good candidate FOR YOU.The agency will conduct the initial interview, perform a background check to eliminate candidates with criminal backgrounds and domestic violence, and the psychological screening which is meant to ensure to you that she understands the journey and that she is mentally healthy.But there is more to it. You have to get along with this woman and trust her with your unborn child.For a ...

Why Do Surrogate Mothers Come Back for More?

There is no better way to understand why women who carry a baby for another couple enjoy it so much than to read about their positive experiences.Jordan is a mother from Florida who has been working with Bundles of Joy, LLC for the past 3 years. She recently completed her second journey and is recovering from the delivery to prepare to enter her third and last journey. While in college, Jordan witnessed a few of her friends become egg donors. She considered it but never got around to it. Later ...

Frozen Egg Lifeboat

What a wonderful world we live in! Not only can one get life insurance but now one can get egg insurance, preserving the reproductive potential in women.We live our lives thinking, “What are the chances that XYZ will happen to me? Zero to none…” until we suddenly find ourselves getting close to being 40 years old without having met Mr. Right. Unfortunately, our mothers may make us feel like it was our fault for having spent too much time involved in our careers, or because, as I was told many ...

Labor Pains of Bundles of Joy, LLC

Any woman diagnosed with infertility will find that many of the professionals--from the psychologist to the attorney, and the egg Donation and Surrogacy Agency--involved in her treatment have at one time walked the same road upon which she is about to embark. Just like for other women, infertility came to Mark and me as a surprise. I had had perfect periods from the beginning, so I believed that it was a given that I would be able to conceive as soon as I started trying. Unfortunately, that was ...

The Journey of Surrogacy

Infertility is often a devastating circumstance to trudge through. The last step in the infertility ladder is Surrogacy. Surrogacy is when an infertile woman commissions another woman to get pregnant for her, and carries and delivers the baby. This process is one that has been established by the legal system in order to avoid any doubts as to who the parents of the baby are. For example, the embryo cannot be genetically related to the Surrogate. In other words, the commissioning parents must have an embryo created with their own ...

YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR SURROGSTE MOTHER

There are two parts in the process of surrogacy: on one side the intended parents and on the other the woman who will get pregnant for them and carry and deliver their baby.The Intended Parents and the surrogate are free to decide what kind of relationship they would like to have before, during and after the pregnancy. As long as both parts agree and they follow the terms established in the contract, there is no rules about it.What are the advantages of meeting your surrogate in advance?The surrogate mother will ...

Why Do Surrogate Mothers Come Back for More ?

There is no better way to understand why women who carry a baby for another couple enjoy it so much than to read about their positive experiences.Jordan is a mother from Florida who has been working with Bundles of Joy, LLC for the past 3 years. She recently completed her second journey and is recovering from the delivery to prepare to enter her third and last journey. While in college, Jordan witnessed a few of her friends become egg donors. She considered it but never got around to it. Later ...

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