The beginning of our Surrogacy Journey

I started this journey by hearing commercials on the radio for our Surrogacy Agency. After hearing them every night for several weeks I decided to check their site out. Prior to this, I never even knew how to start this whole process and I was very intrigued to see how is all works.

After looking into and reading up on all sorts of things Surrogate; I brought my thoughts to Jake to see how he felt about it. We talked about it, read up on it together, and spent lots of time researching several different agencies. We both decided that we would take the first steps with our agency and see how it all fell into place.

Fill out Intake Form

Jackson, Addy & Rylon
meeting everyone at the agency

Phone Interview

Fill out a more detailed questionnaire

Background check

Interview at the Agency with the director and co-founder-We brought the kids with us to our interview. They got to ask questions and be part of the process!

Medical Record review by the IVF clinic to make sure that I am cleared to be a surrogate

At this point in time, The Agency let me know that they were waiting to hear back from the IVF clinic but as long as they got good news from the clinic, they had a family in mind for us. They sent us their profile, which was a letter from the family and several pictures. I then gave them the okay to send our profile over to the family. They reviewed it and said that they would like to go ahead and set up a Skype meeting to meet us replying,

“We are so happy to hear this good news, and as usual I can’t stop the tears. It is such an emotional process, and it was hard waiting, but she seems to be perfect!!!”
The couple, Momma ’S’ and Dad ’R' live in Tel Aviv, Israel and they have a 4 year old, ‘B’. They were able to have their first child on their own and a year later they started to try for a second baby. 3 years and 15 IUI and IVF treatments later with several unsuccessful pregnancies they knew that they needed help to have the family they have always dreamed of having.

On July 18th, Jake and I went down to the agency to meet S & R and it could not have been more perfect! Their smiles light up the room even through a computer screen!
The next steps after both our families deciding to move forward, Jake and I had our psych evaluation which consisted of an hour interview with the psychologist and a 350 question test that I had to take. Then we had our home visit with a social worker . She asked lots of questions about our family and what a day in the life of a Ludlow consists of and Addy and Jackson even got to share their thoughts about this whole process. I know a lot of you are wondering how this is impacting the kids and how they feel about it. I will write a separate post as to how we have decided to share this experience with them.

We met our attorney last week and the contract is all written up and in review by S & R’s attorney. Once they are finished they will send it to our attorney for her to review with us and we will make any changes we see fit and that will go back and forth until both our families feel ready to sign!

Once the contract is signed, we will more forward with the medical prep for the IVF embryo transfer! I will have 2 embryos transfers to increase the chances of having at least one pregnancy with the very high possibility of ending up with a twin pregnancy.
I will update you all will a much shorter blog entry sometime next week when we have more info regarding the contract and IVF prep!


Thank you for being a part of this journey with us! We are so grateful for your love and support!!