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Every article on the site, grouped by where it belongs in the journey.
Topics
Every article on the site, grouped by where it belongs in the journey.
- The decisionIs this right for us, when to start, single parents, gay dads, which path.26
- YouThe waiting, the worry, your relationship, and what you tell everyone else.18
- Money & fundingWhat it really costs, where it goes, and how to protect it.10
- Choosing your teamAgency, clinic or independent — and how to spot a bad one.18
- Medical & embryosIVF, grading, genetics and what the odds actually mean.30
- Egg donorChoosing a donor, genetics, anonymity vs. contact.12
- Your surrogateMatching, the relationship, boundaries and the delivery room.17
- Legal, citizenship & paperworkParentage orders, passports, apostilles and flying home.10
- Birth & the first daysThe birth plan, the delivery room, and the weeks that follow.18
- Your familySiblings, a second journey, school, and the people around you.16
The decision
Is this right for us, when to start, single parents, gay dads, which path.
26 articles
Before Signing With an Agency – 10 Contract Clauses You Must Fully Understand
Surrogate Health Insurance in 2026 – What Changed in the Market and What You Must Check Today
Single Parent Surrogacy in the U.S. – What's Actually Different?
The Emergency Budget – The Line Items No One Warns You About
Transfer One Embryo or Two? The Dilemma Every Couple Faces
How Many Embryos Do You Need Before You Start? The Math of the Odds
Independent Surrogacy vs. an Agency – Who Is It Really Right For?
How Much Does U.S. Surrogacy Really Cost in 2026?
Surrogacy Scams – The Red Flags That Will Save You
Do we have to get married as part of the process?
Almost everything you wanted to know about medical insurance for the surrogate
What newborn stroller should you buy?
One twin pregnancy from two different fathers
Traveling to the birth - alone or with family?
Storing embryos and sperm at the clinic
Should you buy foreign currency before starting?
Transporting embryos between clinics or switching fertility clinics
Changing or merging surnames
Round 2 without an agency?
What’s the difference between working directly with US providers vs. a local broker agency?
Workplace grants and financial assistance for the process
Should I wait until I have a partner to start the a surrogacy process?
Coparenting vs surrogacy
Twins / singleton – What to consider
Is there a good time to have kids?
We’ve decided it’s time to be parents – what’s the best country for surrogacy processes?
You
The waiting, the worry, your relationship, and what you tell everyone else.
18 articles
Welcoming a New Sibling Through Surrogacy: Tips for Gay Dads
Intended Parent Anxiety – Surviving a Pregnancy Happening 10,000 km Away
When the Pregnancy Doesn't Hold – On Loss in a Surrogacy Journey, and the Way Forward
Your Surrogate Asks for Something Not in the Contract – Between Generosity and Boundaries
Texas Meets Tel Aviv – Cultural Gaps With Your Surrogate and How They Become an Advantage
Who Posts What? Social Media Boundaries in a Surrogacy Journey
Your Relationship During the Journey – How Not to Let Surrogacy Swallow You- Single Parent Surrogacy in the U.S. – What's Actually Different?
What Do You Tell Your Child? Building Their Birth Story From Day One
What Do You Tell People at Work? A Guide to Hallway Conversations About Surrogacy
Why Matching With a Surrogate Takes So Long – and What Actually Shortens the Wait
Gifts for your surrogate and egg donor — what to send, when, and how much
The workplace and flying to the birth
Living with HIV and surrogacy
Handling your spouse’s parents
How many times during the process do you have to fly to the United States?- Should I wait until I have a partner to start the a surrogacy process?
- Coparenting vs surrogacy
Money & funding
What it really costs, where it goes, and how to protect it.
10 articles
- Surrogate Health Insurance in 2026 – What Changed in the Market and What You Must Check Today
- The Emergency Budget – The Line Items No One Warns You About
- How Much Does U.S. Surrogacy Really Cost in 2026?
The Escrow Company – The One Link You Cannot Compromise On- Almost everything you wanted to know about medical insurance for the surrogate
Children’s savings plan- Should you buy foreign currency before starting?
- Round 2 without an agency?
Using crowdfunding to raise money for the surrogacy process- Workplace grants and financial assistance for the process
Choosing your team
Agency, clinic or independent — and how to spot a bad one.
18 articles
- Before Signing With an Agency – 10 Contract Clauses You Must Fully Understand
- Surrogate Health Insurance in 2026 – What Changed in the Market and What You Must Check Today
PGT-A Embryo Testing – What It Really Delivers, and When It Matters Less- Independent Surrogacy vs. an Agency – Who Is It Really Right For?
- Why Matching With a Surrogate Takes So Long – and What Actually Shortens the Wait
AI in Embryo Selection – Revolution or Marketing Gimmick?- Surrogacy Scams – The Red Flags That Will Save You
- The Escrow Company – The One Link You Cannot Compromise On
Warren Buffet’s tip to finding an egg donor
How important is the geographical location of the clinic?
What U.S. state is the surrogacy agency located in?- Storing embryos and sperm at the clinic
- Transporting embryos between clinics or switching fertility clinics
- Round 2 without an agency?
- What’s the difference between working directly with US providers vs. a local broker agency?
American agency versus a clinic - what’s the difference and do you need them both?
A friend as your surrogate or egg donor — is it a good idea?
Contact with the surrogate after the birth - is it recommended or not?
Medical & embryos
IVF, grading, genetics and what the odds actually mean.
30 articles
Gay Dads' Guide to Being in the Delivery Room with Your Surrogate
Why Consider Genetic Testing Before Creating Embryos with an Egg Donor?- Intended Parent Anxiety – Surviving a Pregnancy Happening 10,000 km Away
Vaccinations – During Pregnancy and for Your Newborn in the U.S.: What Differs From Israel and What to Agree in Advance- When the Pregnancy Doesn't Hold – On Loss in a Surrogacy Journey, and the Way Forward
Medical Decisions From Afar – You're in Israel, the Doctor Is in Ohio. Who Decides?- PGT-A Embryo Testing – What It Really Delivers, and When It Matters Less
When Your Surrogate Fails Screening – The Restart You Didn't Plan For- Transfer One Embryo or Two? The Dilemma Every Couple Faces
- How Many Embryos Do You Need Before You Start? The Math of the Odds
- AI in Embryo Selection – Revolution or Marketing Gimmick?
What does an embryo grading mean?- Warren Buffet’s tip to finding an egg donor
Cord blood - To save or not to save?- One twin pregnancy from two different fathers
- How important is the geographical location of the clinic?
- Storing embryos and sperm at the clinic
- Transporting embryos between clinics or switching fertility clinics
- What’s the difference between working directly with US providers vs. a local broker agency?
- Living with HIV and surrogacy
Medical tests before embarking on the process
A surrogate who is also the egg donor
An egg donor and a surrogate - why both and what are the differences?- American agency versus a clinic - what’s the difference and do you need them both?
Preliminary sperm tests
Is there a chance that the embryo won’t implant after transfer? What do you do if that happens?
Will we have contact with the egg donor? Will she have any connection to the child?
Can you create more embryos with the donor from the first process?
Genetic tests - what do they test for and how do they compare it with the egg donor?
First meeting with the egg donor or surrogate
Egg donor
Choosing a donor, genetics, anonymity vs. contact.
12 articles
- Why Consider Genetic Testing Before Creating Embryos with an Egg Donor?
- PGT-A Embryo Testing – What It Really Delivers, and When It Matters Less
- What does an embryo grading mean?
- Warren Buffet’s tip to finding an egg donor
- A surrogate who is also the egg donor
- An egg donor and a surrogate - why both and what are the differences?
- A friend as your surrogate or egg donor — is it a good idea?
Is it important to meet with the egg donor?- Will we have contact with the egg donor? Will she have any connection to the child?
- Can you create more embryos with the donor from the first process?
- Genetic tests - what do they test for and how do they compare it with the egg donor?
- First meeting with the egg donor or surrogate
Your surrogate
Matching, the relationship, boundaries and the delivery room.
17 articles
- Gay Dads' Guide to Being in the Delivery Room with Your Surrogate
- Surrogate Health Insurance in 2026 – What Changed in the Market and What You Must Check Today
- Vaccinations – During Pregnancy and for Your Newborn in the U.S.: What Differs From Israel and What to Agree in Advance
- Your Surrogate Asks for Something Not in the Contract – Between Generosity and Boundaries
- When Your Surrogate Fails Screening – The Restart You Didn't Plan For
The Match Meeting – The Questions, the Mistakes, and What You're Really Looking For- Texas Meets Tel Aviv – Cultural Gaps With Your Surrogate and How They Become an Advantage
- Who Posts What? Social Media Boundaries in a Surrogacy Journey
- Why Matching With a Surrogate Takes So Long – and What Actually Shortens the Wait
- Almost everything you wanted to know about medical insurance for the surrogate
Pumping milk from the surrogate or infant formula after the birth- Gifts for your surrogate and egg donor — what to send, when, and how much
- A surrogate who is also the egg donor
- An egg donor and a surrogate - why both and what are the differences?
- A friend as your surrogate or egg donor — is it a good idea?
The support of the surrogate’s family- Contact with the surrogate after the birth - is it recommended or not?
Legal, citizenship & paperwork
Parentage orders, passports, apostilles and flying home.
10 articles
- Before Signing With an Agency – 10 Contract Clauses You Must Fully Understand
The Israeli Judicial Parentage Order – Completing Your Family on Paper Too (and Why the First 90 Days Are Critical)
From Birth to Registration in Israel – The U.S. Judgment, the Passport and the DNA Test, Step by Step- Medical Decisions From Afar – You're in Israel, the Doctor Is in Ohio. Who Decides?
- Your Surrogate Asks for Something Not in the Contract – Between Generosity and Boundaries
U.S. Citizenship for Surrogacy Babies – What Happened and Where Things Stand Today- Do we have to get married as part of the process?
What’s an apostille?- What U.S. state is the surrogacy agency located in?
- We’ve decided it’s time to be parents – what’s the best country for surrogacy processes?
Birth & the first days
The birth plan, the delivery room, and the weeks that follow.
18 articles
- Gay Dads' Guide to Being in the Delivery Room with Your Surrogate
A Month in the U.S. With a Newborn – The Guide to Your Birth-Period Stay- The Israeli Judicial Parentage Order – Completing Your Family on Paper Too (and Why the First 90 Days Are Critical)
- From Birth to Registration in Israel – The U.S. Judgment, the Passport and the DNA Test, Step by Step
- Vaccinations – During Pregnancy and for Your Newborn in the U.S.: What Differs From Israel and What to Agree in Advance
The Birth Trip Suitcase – The Complete Packing List for the Most Important Trip of Your Life- What Do You Tell Your Child? Building Their Birth Story From Day One
- U.S. Citizenship for Surrogacy Babies – What Happened and Where Things Stand Today
- Pumping milk from the surrogate or infant formula after the birth
- What newborn stroller should you buy?
Renting a car while you are in the United States
Staying in the United States after the birth
Returning Home After a Surrogacy Journey in the US with Your Newborn- Traveling to the birth - alone or with family?
- The workplace and flying to the birth
Do children who are born in the United States get a social security number?- Contact with the surrogate after the birth - is it recommended or not?
- Twins / singleton – What to consider
Your family
Siblings, a second journey, school, and the people around you.
16 articles
Navigating Kindergarten as Gay Parents: Tips for a Smooth Transition
The Joys and Challenges of Traveling as a Gay Family1
Jet-Setting with Kids: A Gay Dad's Survival Guide- Welcoming a New Sibling Through Surrogacy: Tips for Gay Dads
- Your Relationship During the Journey – How Not to Let Surrogacy Swallow You
- What Do You Tell Your Child? Building Their Birth Story From Day One
- What Do You Tell People at Work? A Guide to Hallway Conversations About Surrogacy
- Do we have to get married as part of the process?
- Children’s savings plan
- Changing or merging surnames
- Round 2 without an agency?
- Do children who are born in the United States get a social security number?
Lack of a mother figure for the children?
What will the children call us? How will they tell us apart?- Handling your spouse’s parents
- Contact with the surrogate after the birth - is it recommended or not?