Surrogacy at Nascency

A history of C-sections raises a specific, valid medical question for anyone considering surrogacy. What actually matters is uterine health and recovery time, not a fixed number of prior C-sections. Every surrogate completes a full medical screening covering exactly this before she’s ever matched.

Take our Surrogate Archetype Quiz - link in bio.

What could your journey look like?

You know that feeling before a first date, except it’s three other people watching?

Kimmy’s first match call had her advocate, the intended parents’ advocate, and the parents themselves all on one screen. Her first thought: this feels like an interview panel.

“We’re both human, we’re both here because we wanna help each other,” that’s what got her through it.
If you’re picturing your own match call as some kind of test you can pass or fail, Kimmy’s story is worth sitting with. The parents are just as nervous as you are. Your advocate isn’t grading you, they’re there if you need them. The whole point of the call is getting to ask questions and get a real glimpse of each other’s lives before anything is decided. Ever wondered what you’d ask first?

Nascency Voices is where real stories live. Surrogates, intended families, and reproductive health professionals share their experiences, honestly, in their own words, so others can see what this journey looks like through the people who’ve lived it. As part of our mission, every interviewee earns a gift card or makes a donation to RESOLVE , March of Dimes or The Surrogacy Foundation . Comment “Voices,” visit (http://voices.nascency.com) or come to our next “Share Your Story” event to share yours!

Margretta went into her first surrogacy transfer full of hope and came out the other side with something even deeper.

There is a kind of strength that only surrogates carry. Not just the physical gift of pregnancy, but the emotional depth of truly feeling another family’s journey as your own. Margretta felt every ounce of her intended family’s hope in that moment and she never wavered. Research confirms that the most profound surrogacy experiences are shaped not by how smooth the path was, but by the depth of heart a surrogate brings to every single moment of it. Margretta brought everything she had. And because of her, a family heard the heartbeat they had been praying for.

Nascency Voices is where real stories live. Surrogates, intended families, and reproductive health professionals share their experiences honestly, in their own words, so others can see what this journey looks like through the people who have lived it. As part of our mission, every interviewee earns a gift card or makes a donation to RESOLVE , March of Dimes & The Surrogacy Foundation .

Comment “Voices” or visit voices.nascency.com to share yours 🤍

Maybe you’d say to slow down.
To trust yourself more.
To stop worrying about things you can’t control.
To believe that your life ahead is going to be better than she ever imagined.

What would you say? 🤍

The real flex of surrogacy isn’t anything you can hold in your hands. It’s every life you get to touch along the way.

You carried something bigger than a pregnancy - you carried the beginning of someone else’s whole family. Every appointment you kept, every hard week you pushed through, every quiet moment of the journey was building a legacy that has everything to do with who you helped, and nothing to do with what you own.
You are the beginning of someone’s whole legacy.❤️

If this is the kind of legacy you want to leave, DM us - let’s talk about what your surrogacy journey could look like.

Every woman who is four journeys deep once started exactly where you are right now - with a quiet curiosity and a heart that was already more ready than she knew.

The distance between that midnight search and your first journey is so much smaller than it feels.❤️

Where were you when you first started looking into surrogacy?

We love us a little World Cup contrast 😂

‘I wanna make people feel okay.’ She doesn’t even know it yet, but that’s the whole job. ❤️ Turns out kids get it before we ever have to explain it to them.

If a five-year-old can sum up surrogacy in one sentence, why do we make it so complicated?

What’s the simplest way you’d explain what you do to a kid?