Our story
They say it can take a village to raise a baby, and we need our village to help us have one. We are looking to our friends and family in a plea for support in our search for a gestational carrier.
Monica was born with some rare anatomical differences and a debilitating chronic illness that we’ve since learned make it impossible for her to safely carry a child without serious risk to her life and the life of our baby.
The past several years have been filled with heartbreak after heartbreak. Monica has injected herself with hundreds of needles, been through 4 cycles of IVF and undergone multiple procedures to create embryos for our future family, along the way discovering that someone else would need to help us bring our baby earthside.
Through these efforts, we now have 4 embryos currently frozen and waiting in a top Bay Area lab.
The only way to bring our baby home will be through the kindness of someone willing to give us this ultimate blessing by carrying our baby.
So we are asking: If you feel any sort of openness to the idea of sharing this journey with us, we would be forever grateful to even have the opportunity to discuss the process and answer your questions as we know there are likely to be many!
Who can be a surrogate?
According to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and our doctor
Pregnancy History
*Successfully carried at least 1 pregnancy to term
*No previous pregnancy complications
*No more than 3 C-sections
*No more than 5 total births
HEalth
*Age 45 and under
*BMI 30 and under
*Non-Smoker; No drugs
*No STIs or infectious diseases
*No psychiatric illness
Other
*Healthy, stable home
*Willing to vaccinate against COVID-19 and the flu
*Northern California ideal,
California preferred,
US required
Surrogacy isn't for you?
You can still help!
Even if surrogacy isn't for you, please SHARE our story! The more eyes on this, the more hope we have of finding someone to share this journey with us!
Feel compelled to support in another way?
Please DONATE to our GoFundMe
On our GoFundMe we share a bit more about the immense medical costs we've faced to get to this point and what lies ahead.
