Dear Potential Surrogate,

Hi! We’re Ki and R, and we just want to start by saying thank you so much for even reading this. We know it takes a truly amazing and selfless person to consider helping a family like ours, and we are so incredibly grateful for you.

We’ve been together since high school—12 wonderful years now, married for 4—and have built such a fun, joy-filled life together. Our family right now includes our two chocolate labs: Jessi, a sweet rescue we adopted in college who is full of energy and always wants attention (she’s about 10 now), and Kimber, our younger chocolate lab at 5, who absolutely adores children. Kimber has lovingly “watched over” our friends’ kids from babies to about 3 years old, sometimes even lying outside their doors while they sleep or staying close while they play. Her caring and playful nature makes her such a special part of our family. Both dogs are spoiled rotten and live their best lives running around in the lake at R’s parents’ house. Family means the world to us, and while R’s parents live close by, my parents make the trip up from Florida every month so we can spend time together.

R and I started dreaming about having a family way back when we were teenagers. When I was 18, I was diagnosed with MRKH, which means that while I have healthy eggs, I can’t carry a pregnancy. That news was incredibly hard for us to process at such a young age. We knew we wanted kids, and it felt like our dream had been taken away. But thanks to modern medicine and amazing women like you, we now have hope that we can still make that dream come true.

A little about us outside of all this: we love family vacations, spending time with friends, going to church on Sundays, and cheering on the Georgia Bulldogs together on Saturday nights. Go Dawgs! R enjoys duck hunting and golfing, while I’m happiest gardening, hiking, relaxing on the lake in the summer, or wrapped in a blanket by the fireplace in the fall. For work, R is an estimator for a disaster restoration company, and I am a Practice Manager at a local veterinary hospital.

If we’re lucky enough to be matched with a surrogate, we’d love to build a real connection throughout the pregnancy. We’d be overjoyed to get updates from doctors’ appointments, hear how you and the baby are doing and of course, be there to welcome our baby into the world when the time comes. More than anything, we’d want you to feel supported and appreciated through every step of the journey.

From the bottom of our hearts—thank you. Just by considering surrogacy, you are giving families like ours the greatest gift imaginable, and that means more to us than we can ever put into words.

With love and excitement,
K & R