I’ve never met another person born via surrogacy. That’s not entirely true–I did meet a baby at a surrogacy conference in San Francisco about 8 years ago who was born via gestational surrogacy (I was born via traditional). She wasn’t even at the babbling age so it felt like a cruel twist that my kind of first meeting would be with someone I couldn’t converse with. It also drove home how much of a potential “elder” I am in the surrogacy space and the responsibility I might have to the next generation of surrogate kiddos to pave a way towards talking about being born in this way.
A few years ago I started a site called surrogacy-stories.com to both try to meet other surrogate kids and to have a place to share information my past self would have loved to stumble upon. I’ve long toyed with an idea of a…
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Surrogacy Stories 