Surrogacy

So many people prepare for the medical side of surrogacy and IVF during months, between protocols and embryo transfers, costs and paperwork. Most hardly prepare for the moment they find themselves facing the woman who will carry their child. And yet, for most intended parents-to-be, that initial meeting with their surrogate ends up being one […]

A transfer room silence of its own kind. It’s not empty – it’s full. All enfolded by everything the intended parents have gone through the failed cycles, the long conversations, the paperwork, the waiting. We’ve been in that room hundreds of times here at Ekmi Fertility, and we never take it for granted. Embryo transfer

When you have walked the fertility journey long enough, your nearest and dearest start offering up everything they own. And sometimes that offer comes as something so special – a sister, a sister-in-law, a cousin saying softly: ‘I will carry your baby”. Here at Ekmi Fertility we have been in that moment with families. It’s

There is a special type of exhaustion involved with designing an international surrogacy journey. You are already grappling with the heavy burden of fertility struggles – but on top of that, there’s the visa research, there is flight timing, there are “well if it takes five trips until we have a living baby” conversations. During

The path of many intended parents starts with IVF – and somewhere down that journey, ends up at surrogacy. It’s not a straight road. Its part endless decision making and identifying-not missing-who you are and where there are delays and still, moments when hope seems so fragile. IVF and surrogacy together provide an answer for

Having a family is not an easy thing to do. For so many couples, the road we travel leads us through IVF and surrogacy – two paths laden with equal parts of hope and uncertainty. At Ekmi Fertility, we have had the opposite conversation hundreds of times with couples wondering silently, can we afford this?

No one should have to decipher medical bills when struggling through possibly the hardest and most vulnerable time in their life. Every day we see this at Ekmi Fertility – couples that have spent months on IVF, or years waiting for answers and finally reach surrogacy having more questions than answers. So let’s fix that.

I think there is an exhaustion associated with living abroad and attempting to create a family from thousands of miles away. If you are an OCI couple your well-acquainted with it – the time zone calls to doctors, the strange laws of long ago foreign countries where they seem custom geared to financially destroy you.