E12: Our friend offered to be our surrogate in the UK but our embryos were in the USA: Stuart & Francis
E12: Our friend offered to be our surrogate in the UK but our embryos were in the USA: Stuart & Francis
E12: Our friend offered to be our surrogate in the UK but our embryos were in the USA: Stuart & Francis
This week Sanjay chats to Stuart and Francis Armfield-Haugen, gay dads through surrogacy to their son Rio. They started their journey to becoming parents through surrogacy in the USA which is where they made their embryos. Then their friend Sam offered to be their surrogate and they ended up doing their journey between the USA and the UK. We talk about their approach to parenting, their outlook on life, the best things about being dads and the challenges they had with the UK parental order process.
The Proud Parent Club is the inclusive LGBTQ+ parenting podcast and community hosted by Sanjay Sood-Smith, gay dad through surrogacy with his husband Doug, a.k.a. The Travelling Gays. Subscribe for reminders of each LGBT parenting podcast out weekly and follow us on Instagram. Whether you are an LGBT parent or lesbian, gay, bi or trans future parent there will be something for you.
Stuart and Francis: @stuartandfrancis on TikTok | @stueyarmfield and @francishaugen on Instagram
The Travelling Gays: @thetravellinggays | www.instagram.com/thetravellinggays
The Proud Parent Club: @theproudparentclub | www.instagram.com/theproudparentclub | www.theproudparentclub.com
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The Proud Parent Club
The Proud Parent Club is the inclusive podcast and community for LGBTQ+ parents and future LGBT parents. Sanjay Sood-Smith (he/him) is joined by different guests each week to discuss all aspects of family building and LGBT parenting for lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer people. Sanjay and his husband Doug (a.k.a The Travelling Gays on Instagram) became parents through through surrogacy and before starting their journey spent a lot of time researching the different ways that LGBTQ+ people become parents and these will be explored by talking to experts and people from across the LGBTQ+ community who have taken different routes to becoming parents including adoption, surrogacy in different countries, co-parenting, IUI, IVF, reciprocal IVF, solo-parenting and having children before coming out. The Proud Parent Club will also explore what happens when a child arrives arrives, the experiences of being parents, the highs, the lows, the challenges of being an LGBT parent and shared wisdom of how these are overcome. The experiences of LGBT parenting are unique and no topic is off limits to help us find our way - whether you are already a parent, soon to be one or just thinking about the process there will be something here for you.Join Podchaser to...
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