Dear Prospective Surrogate,

Thank you for considering joining us on the adventure of surrogacy. We can’t begin to put into words our appreciation and gratitude for even considering being a gestational carrier and helping us grow our family.

After years of trying unsuccessfully to have children, we were so blessed to have our first child through the gift of adoption, a beautiful baby boy whom we adopted in 2021. We have now been blessed with two more gifts (a girl and a boy) through the amazing experience of surrogacy. Both journeys were unique and we are so thankful that we have been able to grow our family with the help of an even wider extended family! We would love to be able to complete our family with one more perfect gift.

We’re happy to share a little about us and our family now but we’re also open to answering any questions you have in the future as well. We began dating back in 2002 and really have been each other’s biggest supporters through all the ups and downs of advanced degrees, new jobs, moves, fertility challenges, losses, travel and now parenthood. 

A little more about us – J loves music and Broadway musicals and pretending to be crafty even though most art projects now involve finger paints and crayons and lots of messes. D loves sports – his favorite teams are the Denver Broncos and New York Yankees but pick a sport and he’d happily play or talk about the latest trades. As a family, we’re big Disney fans, love swimming, “hiking” (if you can call it that with toddlers on the trail) and just being outdoors. But we also enjoy cooking big, messy family dinners and reading in the rain – we’re currently in love with the Berenstain Bears and Topsy and Tim series.

 We love being parents and have so many adventures planned for our family! Every day watching our children develop their personalities and grow to be such sweet friends has been such an amazing joy. We know we are so fortunate to have our amazing children and remember so clearly when we didn’t know if we’d ever even be able to have one child but our hearts still ache for one more to truly make our family complete. Going from our quiet house to the boisterous chaos of 3 under 3 has been the best transition of our lives and, call us crazy, but we can’t get enough of the giggles and messes and everyday adventures.

We would love to develop a relationship with our future surrogate and be involved again in her pregnancy but we also understand she will have a life and family of her own. In an ideal world, we would be able to join all appointments together, really allow our families to get to know each other, and all be running around Disney together one day celebrating our journey with our blended families. We’ve had so much appreciation and been so thankful from the very beginning of our first surrogacy journey but after seeing first hand what our surrogate has done for us, we are humbled and even more grateful for all that a surrogate gives. Thank you for your sacrifice and gift!

With Love,

J & D