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Her surrogate is 36 weeks pregnant and in Kyiv
This afternoon I spoke to an intended mother from France. Her surrogate is 36 weeks pregnant and living in an apartment in Kyiv. She asked me not to…
Mar 8
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Links to stories and resources
A quick roundup of some recent stories on surrogacy in Ukraine. Madi Chwasta and Kelsey Rettino. "Ukraine conflict prevents Melbourne couple from…
Mar 3
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An open letter from Ukraine's embryologists
Ukraine’s embryologists are asking the producers of culture media and consumables used in assisted reproduction to “postpone the supply of your products…
Mar 15
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Questions intended parents are asking
Intended parents have questions. The following are slightly edited versions of questions I've heard this past week on Zoom calls, in seminars, online…
Mar 11
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Not everyone abandons surrogates
This is just a short item, but I feel it needs to be written. There have been many accounts of surrogates being ghosted by their agencies or clinics…
Mar 25
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Surrogacy and the refugee
For weeks now, I've been thinking about how being a refugee intersects with surrogacy. It's been a struggle to put my thoughts into words. There are…
May 24
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What's next for intended parents working with Ukraine?
When war came to Ukraine, hundreds of international families were already pinning their hopes on surrogacy there. Some had shipped their embryos to the…
Apr 24
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Two days after the invasion, intended parents share their thoughts. Part One: a Canadian whose child is due in April
Thanks for signing up. I launched this newsletter on the spur of the moment, as events quickened in Ukraine. It has been less than two weeks, but so…
Feb 25
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Two days after the invasion, intended parents share their thoughts. Part One: a Canadian whose child is due in April
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Nipping back in for the birth and other options
In the opening days of the war, many surrogates were moved west to safer cities and villages, or out of the country altogether. But a big question…
Mar 27
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The war gets personal
It doesn't take long before a war touches everyone in the affected country in some personal way. In my very first post for Ukraine Surrogacy Dispatches…
Mar 8
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What about surrogates mid-process?
The day after the war started, I began to wonder what was happening with surrogates who were mid-process. Surrogacy requires that you take hormones for…
Feb 26
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An American intended parent, two-thirds of the way through a surrogacy in Ukraine
I first spoke to this intended mother, an American, two days after the war began. (You can read that interview here.) Her child had been conceived just…
Aug 4
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