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We were sent detailed profiles of women with amazing wombs, a human version of the exclusive assets on Selling Sunset, if you will, and spent our evenings sifting through pages of detailed health histories, previous birth experiences (potential surrogates must have at least one child of their own), and even family photos. It took us about a month to find someone we felt was a good match. As a first-time surrogate, photographer, and mother of two based in Las Vegas, Summer checked all the boxes. A video “appointment” was set up and supervised by our surrogacy agency, and after a conversation that lasted over the scheduled two hours, we knew we had found our match. Sweet, funny, kind, strong, calm: our surrogate was and is everything we could hope to find in the person who would babysit our future child.
Piles of paperwork, hours of legal meetings, health checks (for the surrogate and her husband), FDA testing (for our embryos, me and my husband), mandatory consultations, and more piles of paperwork followed. Our embryos were flown from London to the United States, hand-carried from house to house in a small temperature-controlled freezer. Six months after our first meeting with Summer, we called for an embryo transfer via video call. Just two weeks later, she peed (privately) into a cup and held up a pregnancy test to the camera so my husband and I could see the two blue lines developing in real time.
After doing some more research, we learned that the laws surrounding surrogacy vary greatly from country to country. The United States has regulated surrogacy since 1976, and it’s a relatively well-oiled machine there (although the system still varies from state to state). We chose an agency in California, which is known for its smooth and relatively quick process, and doesn’t have the long waiting lists that exist in the United Kingdom, where I was born, and Canada, where my husband is from.
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