Can intended parents share their surrogacy journey with friends and family? In one word: YES! If you want to document your surrogacy journey from start to finish, then you definitely should! Sharing your journey is not only a great way to keep your family and friends updated, but it’ll help to spread awareness of what surrogacy is, help normalize conversations about surrogacy, and clear up any misconceptions. Best of all, it’ll give hope to other couples and individuals who might be wondering how they too can become parents.

  • Talk to your surrogate to ensure she is comfortable with sharing details.
  • Use social media to share milestones, photos, and videos.
  • If you want to privately share photos use a photo-sharing app like Dropbox or Shutterfly.
  • Start a blog to document your journey.
  • Create a memory book with photos, video logs of appointments, letters, or footage.
  • You can contact your case manager at FSC to help guide you through sharing your journey.

First Things First: Talk to Your Surrogate

Before creating that Facebook page about your pending child, it’s important to speak first with your surrogate. After all, she’s at the center of your story too! You’ll need to make sure both of you are happy about the information you’ll be sharing with friends and family – and with strangers – on the internet.

Chat with your surrogacy specialist about what details you should or shouldn’t share, and what other Intended Parents have done in the past.

This will help you maintain a healthy, respectful relationship after signing the contract.

Social Media

There are lots of ways to use social media to document each step of your journey. It’s also easier than ever, apps like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, or Twitter, which makes sharing information a breeze.

If your surrogate is comfortable about it, go ahead and share! Photos, videos, your thoughts, and any other kinds will make for fascinating material.

If you’re willing to make your journey public, you can use hashtags to connect with other intended parents, surrogates, and anyone else involved in surrogacy. Tags such as #surrogacy, #fertility, #infertility, #surrogates will help you to spread your story even further.

Get a Photo-Sharing App

Of course, not everyone wants to share their journey with the world – and that’s perfectly fine. But there are still ways to record this exciting time and keep it private.

Photo-sharing methods such as Dropbox or Shutterfly provide a secure and private means of sharing photos. You simply upload the photos to a file and then share the file link to the people you choose. Even if you don’t print the photos, you’ll still be able to access them anytime you want.

Start a Blog

You don’t have to be a literary master to write a blog! All you need is a blogging platform and a willingness to write about your journey.

You can make your blog private or public; it is up to you!

A blog is a fantastic way to let your friends and family know what’s going on at each stage of the surrogacy process. It’ll also allow you to open up a little and explain why you’re doing this, and how you feel. And best of all, you’ll be able to share this blog with your child later on in life!

Create a Memory Book

A surrogacy memory book isn’t just for you – it’s for the little person you’re bringing into the world. A memory book is a great way to help them understand how you reached the decision to have a baby and everything that happened along the way.

You can design your book any way you want. It can be a physical book made of paper, or it can be an online document. You can include photos, video logs of appointments, footage of the delivery, and letters to your future offspring.

Need Guidance?

If you’re still a little unsure about how best to record your surrogacy journey, your Family Source Consultants case manager will be available to talk it through. They’ll tell you about their experiences with other Intended Parents, and the easiest way to make everything happen smoothly.

Remember – recording your journey is also for YOU! This is an exciting time that must be remembered. One day you’ll want to look back and remember everything you went through and what you felt at the time.

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Staci Swiderski, CEO and owner of Family Source Consultants, has been a prominent leader in reproductive medicine for over two decades. Through her strategic vision and dedication, she has developed Family Source Consultants into a globally recognized agency specializing in comprehensive egg donation and gestational surrogacy services. Under Staci’s leadership, the agency has become a trusted partner for intended parents, surrogates, and egg donors worldwide, known for its rigorous standards, compassionate support, and commitment to excellence in third-party reproduction.

Her professional insight is uniquely informed by her own family-building experiences. As an intended parent, Staci welcomed her son via gestational surrogacy in 2005, and as a known egg donor, she assisted an infertile couple in expanding their family. These experiences lend a rare depth to her leadership and have fueled her ongoing dedication to ethical, empathetic, and professional support within the field of reproductive medicine.