To get pregnant, I have resorted to artificial insemination. I want to openly talk about it because this is an opportunity to show my gratitude to all those anonymous donors who help many women to meet, like me, the dream of their life.
God bless IVF because it's never too late to conceive any more. However, having said that, I have to point out that going through IVF is a gruelling procedure; maybe that's why only a woman can go through it!
IVF is a wonderful thing. One has to ignore the injections as the reality is that nobody is going to invent a pill that you can take to get a baby.
I would rather do surrogacy before adopting. If I can't do it, I'd rather find someone who would do it for me.
When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.
I now need to take a very aggressive approach to having a baby.
A lot of people have been asking me questions about IVF and surrogacy, and I'm glad that I can be a mouthpiece to that.
Thinking about women who can't have their own baby, even the first baby, I'm really lucky.
The surrogate is feeling pregnant! And a little sick. She thinks it's a girl.
There was a friend of ours who worked with a girl who had said she would consider being a surrogate. We met her and right away she was awesome. We were looking for someone who could take care of themselves and it was pretty clear she could.
We are really looking at all of our options. I mean, listen, whether it's IVF or whatever it is, we want to have a baby and we will have a baby.
I think in vitro is a miracle and it has given me my precious little baby boy.
Those that don't know that I've gone through so many IVF treatments, and I've gone through six cycles to get this child, that's on its way via surrogate, biological child - and it's been great.
I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.
I think one of the biggest misconceptions is that this is somehow a stranger who is carrying your child. And this is absolutely not true. Your surrogate becomes one of your best friends and a member of your family.
I went through years of unsuccessful fertility treatments, first in my hometown of D.C., then in New York City, where it finally happened - I got pregnant with my son, my miracle boy.
What's beautiful about the journey of surrogacy is that relationship you build with your surrogate, when it's done in places with good law. These aren't women you stop speaking to once your child is born, this is someone who's part of your family.
Knock on wood, but I think we hit the gestational carrier lottery!
When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.
For a couple that wants to have a child, there's the option of IVF, but then have a look at adoption as well.
It took three years from talking about it, to meeting with Wendie Wilson-Miller from 'Gifted Journeys' Surrogacy, to finding the right doctor, to doing the egg retrieval and finding the right surrogate.
There's a lot of technology out there to help people have children in different ways, and later in life, for better or worse.
We love and adore our surrogate, we speak to her and her family constantly, I'm sure our son will speak to her for the rest of his life as well.
We've gotten probably 40 women who have offered to be surrogates.
I'm so thankful that there are people willing to do that - to actually carry a child nine months for someone.
