Someone surviving cancer is one of the strongest battle a person can fight. Then, as the treatment is over and slowly your life becomes yours again, a different grief comes in – that conceiving may not be so simple anymore. The consequences of chemotherapy, radiation, and surgeries on fertility can be particularly cruel. However, at Ekmi […]

The moment for which you’ve been preparing – through IVF cycles, consultations with a fertility specialist, legal documents and waivers filed and signed, many sleepless nights – has arrived. Your baby is born. Now comes the part not often enough discussed: getting them home. If your journey was IVF and surrogacy together or the first step

Embarking on the journey of starting a family through IVF and surrogacy is one of the most layered emotional journeys one can go through. Ekmi Fertility have families who come to us every day worn out, hopeful with millions of questions. A question you may have coming up is this: what exactly does a surrogate

What can renew your hope but also instill anxiety is the notion that most people entering a fertility clinic – their first experience, anyway – carry with them two elements: hope and anxiety. Even if you’re seeking IVF for yourself or optioning surrogacy to create your family, stepping into the unknown can be deafening. At

There is an exhaustion that you get post-failed IVF cycle. It’s not just physical. It is the kind of silent mourning for hope gone unfulfilled and then shattered like glass, the questions that haunt you from the clinic. Before that moment, you sat at the countertop of Ekmi Fertility with one partner cradling their head

At Ekmi Fertility, we have go-to hundreds of couples who came in believing IVF to be the solution. Sometimes it is. Yet, on occasion after listening thoughtfully – to their journey, their health history, and heartbreaks from this road – our fertility doctor has to say something more difficult: IVF may not be the best

Becoming a parent is one of the most essential human needs. And when that route requires medical assistance – be it through IVF and surrogacy or other infertility treatments – hope inevitably gives way to some level of confusion. This is something we have seen couples go through hundreds of times here at Ekmi Fertility.

Discovering you are a carrier of an inherited condition that may be transmitted to your offspring is one of the heaviest burdens one can bear. The grief is real. So is the fear. However, what so many couples do not know is that diagnosis does not mean the parenthood door is closed. A biological child

Deciding whether or not to start a family through IVF and surrogacy is among the most emotionally charged things anyone will ever do. Over our time as the team here at Ekmi Fertility, we’ve welcomed hundreds of couples & individuals through our door to hear their story in front of them – continuing this conversation

Starting a family via IVF and surrogacy is one of the most important decisions that a person can make. That requires extreme courage, vulnerability, and a combination of belief in some openness – that is faith you are depositing to a center, surrogate medical expert and the manner being used therefore personally. With the privilege