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Understanding Social Surrogacy: Building Families with Conceptual Options

Social surrogacy is transforming the way people build families, offering a compassionate and collaborative path to parenthood for those who cannot carry a pregnancy themselves. At Conceptual Options, we’re proud to lead the way in social surrogacy, providing personalized support, rigorous screening, and expert guidance to intended parents and surrogates. Based in San Diego, California, our agency has facilitated over 1,100 surrogacy… Read More »Understanding Social Surrogacy: Building Families with Conceptual Options

Fox News’ Bryan Llenas Shares His Surrogacy Journey

Fox News National Correspondent, Bryan Llenas, and his partner, Kyle, have announced the birth of their first child, Rio, via surrogacy just this past April. Although the journey was long – 3 years to be exact- it was all worth it. Despite the time it took, as well as the emotional and financial tolls that they faced daily, they wouldn’t trade a… Read More »Fox News’ Bryan Llenas Shares His Surrogacy Journey

Why You’ll Be Best Served Becoming a Surrogate with Conceptual Options

Becoming a surrogate is one of the most powerful and life-changing decisions a woman can make. It’s a selfless act that brings immeasurable joy to families who cannot carry children on their own. But just as intended parents seek the right agency to support their journey, potential surrogates also deserve the highest level of care, support, and respect. At Conceptual Options, we believe… Read More »Why You’ll Be Best Served Becoming a Surrogate with Conceptual Options

Gabrielle Union Felt Like a Failure Using a Surrogate

Gabrielle Union opened up and got real about how she felt about using a surrogate to have her daughter with Dwayne Wade while speaking to Marie Claire in their first-ever motherhood issue. For Gabrielle, she felt that she was a failure because her body couldn’t do what she needed it to do – carry a baby. Despite feeling this way, she had… Read More »Gabrielle Union Felt Like a Failure Using a Surrogate

She Didn’t Know She Wanted Kids, Until She Became Disabled

In her twenties, Jessica Slice always told her friends and family that she was never going to have children. However, that all changed when she got heat exhaustion on a hike in Santorini, which then triggered a latent neurological condition and a genetic connective tissue disorder. Now, at the age of 28 she was permanently disabled and spent most of her time… Read More »She Didn’t Know She Wanted Kids, Until She Became Disabled

Olivia Munn and John Mulaney open up about Surrogacy

Olivia Munn Gets Candid About Why She Choose Surrogacy

This week is National Infertility Week (April 20-26), and we wanted to focus on those who strive to make infertility and assisted reproduction a more normal conversation in our own lives. For example, Olivia Munn, an actress, and her husband, John Mulaney, a comedian, are being candid about becoming parents via surrogacy after 5 life-changing surgeries, breast cancer and a roller-coaster ride… Read More »Olivia Munn Gets Candid About Why She Choose Surrogacy

Another Actress, Michelle Williams, Uses Surrogacy to Expand Their Family

Another actress has utilized a surrogate in order to expand her family with husband/director, Thomas Kail. The couple welcomed their third child via surrogate just six weeks ago. This now makes Michelle a mother of four … her oldest is 18-year-old daughter Matilda, whose father is the late ‘Dark Knight’ star Heath Ledger. No details have been released from their representatives at… Read More »Another Actress, Michelle Williams, Uses Surrogacy to Expand Their Family

Michigan Finally Makes Compensated Surrogacy Legal TODAY!!

Michigan has finally joined the other states, such as California, Texas and Oregon, in making compensated – traditional and gestational – surrogacy legal. For everyone in Michigan who has wanted to be a Surrogate or Intended Parent, they are finally allowed to move forward in their state without the threat of civil and criminal penalties. The change occurred when the Assisted Reproduction… Read More »Michigan Finally Makes Compensated Surrogacy Legal TODAY!!

Gay Italian Couple Afraid to Bring Child Back Home to Italy

Gay Italian Couple Afraid to Return Home with Surrogate Son Born in the US

For many LBGTQ+ couples in Italy, the US has been the path to becoming a parent through surrogacy for decades. But why now? Well, this couple could be among the first Italians prosecuted under a new ban on domestic surrogacy, which has been extended as an outright ban on domestic surrogacy and procreative tourism making it a universal crime that transcends borders,… Read More »Gay Italian Couple Afraid to Return Home with Surrogate Son Born in the US

Grindr Staff Pushes Company for Fertility & Surrogacy Benefits

For many that work at Grindr, a popular dating app that focuses on LGBTQ+ relationships, their path to becoming a parent is through adoption or surrogacy. To meet the needs of its employees, Grindr recently started offering up to $300,000 over five years to workers to cover adoption, surrogacy, and fertility treatments once they have worked for the company for at least… Read More »Grindr Staff Pushes Company for Fertility & Surrogacy Benefits