March 25, 2026
What Inspired You To Become a Surrogate?:
Love of pregnancy!
What Is Your Favourite Memory From Your Surrogacy Journey(s)?:
When my first intended parents heard the heart beat for the first time! Sitting in the ultrasound room – it got cozy with me, the technician and the two dads – seeing the heart beat is one things, but hearing that strong sound echoing through the room as a smile spread across their faces and tears sprung to their eyes is a moment I will never forget.
What Is One Piece of Advice You’d Give Someone Considering Becoming a Surrogate?:
Do your research! If you are working with an agency, meet with a few. Talk to them, ask them all the questions you have and go with the one you get the best feeling from. Connection and communication is so important throughout the entire journey with everyone involved in the journey.
Tell us your surrogacy story:
My first and second surrogacy journeys were for a couple in Ireland. They were the cutest same-sex couple just hoping to be Dads one day and wanted to use Canada for that process. As my husband and I were working with a surrogacy agency, they presented us with five different profiles of intended parents to choose from.
The Ireland couple was the first one we read and we loved it, but we thought we can’t pick the first one, can we? We went on to read the others and came back to that very first profile and they became our first and second surrogacy journeys – they were incredible journeys. My kids were four and six when we began so there was a lot of conversation about what does that mean for me? What does that mean for our family, but they went with it and the first one was a little boy.
Pregnancy was super easy. Everything went perfect. The second one was a little girl. Pregnancy was not so easy. Things were not as perfect, but it was still such an incredible experience. We ran into trouble like gestational diabetes for the very first time in my life, trying to navigate what that looked like.
The thing about surrogacy is that it is such an amazing experience and I know some women who are surrogates once and then they’re done and that’s OK for them. It is so amazing what they are able to give back.. For me, that sibling journey for this couple from Ireland just made sense because we already knew each other they wanted a second child. Everything was great, and they were such incredible journeys. They were something I enjoyed so much, even with the challenges I faced with that second journey, that I just felt like I had to help more families. It really was those first two journeys that set the tone of how amazing surrogacy journeys can be – it was a good fit right from the beginning.
