“It’s a lot to ask people to go through,” says Sally Rhodes-Heinrich, who owns surrogacy agency Surrogacy Canada Online. As surrogates, the women can't have sex with their spouses for four weeks before cycling and four weeks after, says Rhodes-Heinrich. Leia Swanberg, founder of B.C.-based Canadian Fertility Consulting, recommends that all her surrogates take a moment to thank their support system. When Steve Berkeley met his eventual wife, Christine, seven years ago, he knew their lives together would be filled with children. When she was pregnant with twins for the first time in 2014, Christine was ordered to go on bed rest.

Source: thestar August 28, 2016 10:52 UTC