By Brandy Black All my days have become the same, at 5:00, my routine begins, I walk to the stereo and slip in a prepared disk that I listen to every night at this time. I open the refrigerator with a glimmer of hope for what I might get out of the pain I am […]
As of now, by state law in Hawaii, married heterosexual couples can get financial help for in vitro fertilization (IVF). Due to the way that the law is worded, the law excludes LGBT couples and single individuals from gaining equal access to this funding. But that could soon change. LGBT couples in Hawaii are currently […]
Mel Holman has been a surrogate mother twice. She recently posted a photo on Facebook with the second child she gave birth to as a surrogate. She wrote, “A few weeks ago I gave birth to a baby boy. This is me holding him. He was perfect- a screaming newborn mess, lifted off my stomach […]
By Mikayla Denault On July 11, 2002, my moms’ lives changed forever. That day I was born and resembled the love of my two moms as well as the whole LGBT community. I proved to the whole world that love is love. Although I was born in a somewhat “untraditional” way, I was still made […]
By Brandy Black Creating a family isn’t easy for every couple or single parent by choice. For Susan and I, it was a long three years of disappointment after disappointment. But there was a beautiful light at the end of it all — three lights, in fact. We shared with you the first part of […]
For those that have undergone IUI, you know the process — placing sperm inside a woman’s uterus in hopes of fertilization. It’s usually done at a doctor’s office, and many couples go through multiple rounds of this in hopes of getting pregnant. But what if you didn’t have to go to the doctor for your […]
John Zhang of the New Hope Fertility Center of New York recently led a three-parent technique that resulted in the world’s first child born with two bio moms and one dad. A Jordanian couple in Mexico sought out Zhang’s help because the mother has genes for Leigh syndrome – a fatal disorder that attacks the […]
By Alex Temblador For many families across the world, infertility is a huge struggle, and no one has more first-hand experience with it than the moms of The Next Family. In their newest video, Brandy Black and Susan Howard discuss how they started working toward creating their family. Though Brandy was always intent on […]
By Alex Temblador Let’s be honest: No matter how you choose to create your family, it costs money. Just look below at the average costs associated with each path to parenthood: Surrogacy: $100,000-$150,000 Domestic Adoption: $30,000-$40,000 International Adoption: $30,000-$50,000 Foster Care Adoption: $2,000-$5,000 IVF Treatments: $7,000-$27,000 Costs associated with natural births: $9,000-$15,000 Even if you […]
By Henry Amador-Batten So my husband and I have been struggling over which one of us should carry our next child. It makes perfect sense, from the outside, that I should carry the baby, after all I am already home with our first son. […]
