I Want to Put a Baby in You!

Betsy Cairo has her PhD in Human Reproduction and is the Founder and Director of CryoGam Colorado, Colorado’s only commercial sperm bank. She’s a college professor, Executive Director of a non-profit helping vulnerable communities, and a featured TED talk presenter. Girl has done it all. Hear from Betsy as she discusses: • How long sperm can be stored and still be viable – including the incredible story of a man who fought cancer at 18 years old and, with a little pre-planning, preserved his future dream of fatherhood. • How signing a simple document can make the world of difference to your partner or spouse should the unthinkable happen. Check it out here. • How donations are done – it’s not as short and sweet as the movies make it out to be! • Anonymity and identity issues -- is the identity of sperm donors known? Can it be discovered? • Why you should plan for your reproductive health and preserve your fertility. • Why it’s important to see a doctor (just like all the commercials tell you to do) instead of going the turkey baster route (which can ruin more than just Thanksgiving). Want to share your story or ask a question? Call and leave us a message on our hotline: 303-997-1903. Learn more about our podcast: iwanttoputababyinyou.com Learn more about our surrogacy agencies: brightfuturesfamilies.com Learn more about Ellen’s law firm: trachmanlawcenter.com Learn more about CryoGam Colorado: cryogam.com Tune in next week when we speak with Dr. Athena O’Shaughnessy, a Reproductive Endocrinologist at Conceptions.

Sharon LaMothe is the Owner of LaMothe Surrogacy Consulting and LaMothe Services, LLC. She’s also been a gestational surrogate two times, both times with twins! She has a wealth of knowledge in the assisted reproductive technology field.
 Listen to this podcast and find out about:   • How it all began - her own infertility issues and her tales of clomid turning her into the wicked witch of the west • Finding out on vacation about her surprise second pregnancy after her long span of infertility • Her experience of being a gestational surrogate the first time - spoiler alert - she gave birth to 2 girls!! • Her surrogacy journey being a 6-part mini-series on Channel 9 news in Rochester, NY (which she now has on VHS) - the beginning of her educational career of surrogacy • Her second experience as a gestational surrogate - giving birth, yet again, to twins! • How her agencies got up and running - and her favorite stories of human perseverance along the way • How a law change in Washington state may change her entire business Want to share your story or ask a question? Call and leave us a message on our hotline: 303-997-1903. Learn more about our podcast: iwanttoputababyinyou.com 
Learn more about our surrogacy agencies: brightfuturesfamilies.com
 Learn more about Ellen’s law firm: trachmanlawcenter.com 
Learn more about LaMothe Surrogacy Consulting: lamothesurrogacyconsulting.com Learn more about LaMothe Services, LLC: lamotheservices.com

Sarah Paige has been working with ART Risk Financial Insurance Solutions for 7 years. They specialize in insurance for the assisted reproductive technology field to help minimize the risk for Intended Parents, Surrogates, Donors and others throughout their journeys. 
 Tune in to find out: • How many states offer infertility insurance coverage • How often the gestational carrier’s insurance covers medical bills from the surrogacy (it’s more common now than it used to be!) • All about insurance policies - what they cover and what they don’t • Some of her most interesting cases - including one involving Medicaid where they ended up deciding NOT to cover the $250,000 bill which led to the intended parents filing bankruptcy • What happens when a policy changes in the middle of your pregnancy • The unfortunate but important matter of life insurance policies • How Sarah went from teaching smelly 5th graders to a logistics manager for the shipping industry to the insurance field Want to share your story or ask a question? Call and leave us a message on our hotline: 303-997-1903. Learn more about our podcast: iwanttoputababyinyou.com 
Learn more about our surrogacy agencies: brightfuturesfamilies.com
 Learn more about Ellen’s law firm: trachmanlawcenter.com
 Learn more about Art Risk Financial Insurance Solutions: artrisksolutions.com

Jennifer Barfield is a Professor from Colorado State University in the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. She specializes in reproductive physiology and assisted reproductive technologies in a variety of species. Tune in to find out: • Unique aspects of reproductive in different non-human species - naked mole rats, anyone? • Which species are born with their eyes open and their teeth out and start fighting immediately. Oh and the females give birth through a pseudo-penis. • The training involved in becoming an embryologist and what inspired Jennifer to go into the field. • Using Assisted Reproductive Technology to cure a disease found in the Bison of Yellowstone. • The story behind Baby Bison IVF1 - yes, of course we have photos. • If the hotel room by you in Yellowstone is being used as a baby bison lab. • Why you should come to Colorado in the case of an apocalypse. Want to share your story or ask a question? Call and leave us a message on our hotline: 303-997-1903. Learn more about our podcast: iwanttoputababyinyou.com Learn more about our surrogacy agencies: brightfuturesfamilies.com Learn more about Ellen’s law firm: trachmanlawcenter.com Learn more or donate to the CSU Bison program: advancing.colostate.edu/BISON

Marc Gilland is a passport and visa expert with Passport Visa Advisors and responsible for helping countless families make it home. Think Homeland. But with more babies.

 Tune in as Marc tells us:  • His amazing stories of international drama with parents trying to get their US-born surrogate babies home. • Complications when one parent dies before conception or mom dies months before the birth (assisted reproductive technology is changing the biological limits of reproduction!). • Why you might need to buy a “burner” phone. • How to avoid getting into a fist fight in a US embassy. • And how to avoid other common pitfalls that can make a major difference in a family’s ability to get home. Want to share your story or ask a question? Call and leave us a message on our hotline: 303-997-1903. Learn more about our podcast: iwanttoputababyinyou.com
 Learn more about our surrogacy agencies: brightfuturesfamilies.com
 Learn more about Ellen’s law firm: trachmanlawcenter.com 
Learn more about Passport Visa Advisors: https://passportvisaadvisors.com Tune in next week as we talk to Jennifer Barfield, a Professor from Colorado State University in the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, where she’ll talk about non-human assisted reproductive medicine!

David Lat, Founder and Editor of Above The Law, has gone to Harvard and Yale, is the author of the novel, Supreme Ambitions, and is most importantly, a new father. Listen to David talk about he and his husband Zach’s beautiful gestational surrogacy journey: • How he and his husband Zach met and how they arrived at the decision of gestational surrogacy. • How they decided on their surrogacy agency, their gestational surrogate, their egg donor, their fertility clinic, their attorneys, and every other moving piece of this puzzle! • The story of their embryos, whose DNA they used, which embryo(s) took, and the SURPRISE gender of their baby. • The relationship they had with their gestational carrier and her husband (HINT…it was SO good, you guys!) and his advice to new intended parents and gestational carriers on how to have a great relationship. • Their dramatic story of attempting to make it to the birth of their sweet child! Want to share your story or ask a question? Call and leave us a message on our hotline: 303-997-1903. Learn more about our podcast: iwanttoputababyinyou.com 
Learn more about our surrogacy agencies: brightfuturesfamilies.com 
Learn more about Ellen’s law firm: trachmanlawcenter.com
 Learn more about Above The Law: abovethelaw.com Tune in next week as we talk to Suzie White, previous gestational surrogate and current Outreach Coordinator for Colorado Surrogacy!

Patience Bleskan is a Developmental Psychologist who is the Founder of the Family Room. She’s also the mother of four kids. Her personal experience as a gestational carrier went very differently than she anticipated. Tune into listen to Patience talk about: • Her long road to being a gestational carrier and if she’d do it again. • How she picked her intended parents and why the first preliminary match didn’t work. • The importance of the gestational carrier speaking up about preferences for the pregnancy and birth to ensure a good match. • Her decision process on two embryos versus one embryo. • The embryo transfer processes and their heartbreaking outcomes. • Dealing with pregnancy loss when you are used to being the lucky fertile one. Want to share your story or ask a question? Call and leave us a message on our hotline: 303-997-1903. Learn more about our podcast: iwanttoputababyinyou.com Learn more about our surrogacy agencies: brightfuturesfamilies.com Learn more about Ellen’s law firm: trachmanlawcenter.com Learn more about The Family Room: thefamilyroomdenver.com Tune in next week as we talk to Marc Gilland from Passport and Visa Advisors!

Gail Sexton-Anderson is the Founder and CEO of Donor Concierge, a service that finds egg donors and surrogate mothers, helping intended parents have the baby they always wanted. She also has her Masters in Counseling from Harvard University and is a board member of SEEDS (Society for Ethics in Egg Donation and Surrogacy). Tune in to listen to Gail talk about: • How Donor Concierge works and how she came up with the concept of her business. • Intended parents who have gone through almost 20 IVF cycles who finally ended up with a baby. • Some of the most funny questions she’s received from people about the process. • Her suggestions on reasons of why you should choose a donor. • Tips for intended parents on how to share their family creation story. • Her feelings on IPs wanting to use more than one surrogate at a time. • Her best piece of advice for those getting ready to start the egg donor or surrogacy process. Want to share your story or ask a question? Call and leave us a message on our hotline: 303-997-1903. Learn more about our podcast: iwanttoputababyinyou.com 
Learn more about our surrogacy agencies: brightfuturesfamilies.com
 Learn more about Ellen’s law firm: trachmanlawcenter.com 
Learn more about Donor Concierge: https://www.donorconcierge.com Tune in next week as we talk to Patience Bleskan, Developmental Psychologist and Founder of the Family Room! Spoiler alert: this one is sad.

Suzie White is a 3-time surrogate and previous egg donor and is currently the Marketing Outreach Coordinator with Colorado Surrogacy. Suzie discusses her amazing surrogacy experience: • What inspired her to be a surrogate for the very first time back in the 90s (it involves Oprah, of course) • Her different experiences between traditional surrogacy the first 2 times (singletons both times) versus gestational surrogacy the 3rd time around (with twins!) • How the Pre-Birth Order her 3rd time around made the process much easier for both her and the birth parents • Her thoughts now looking back on her surrogate pregnancies and if she has any regrets or would change anything • Advice to those interested in being a gestational carrier or to those who may need to use a gestational carrier to grow their family Want to share your story or ask a question? Call and leave us a message on our hotline: 303-997-1903. Learn more about our podcast: iwanttoputababyinyou.com 
Learn more about our surrogacy agencies: brightfuturesfamilies.com Learn more about Ellen’s law firm: trachmanlawcenter.com Tune in next week as we talk to Gail Sexton-Anderson, CEO and Founder of Donor Concierge!

Jennifer Nelson is the Founder and Program Director of An Angel’s Gift, a full service egg donation and embryo donation agency. She is a 7-time egg donor herself and has also been a gestational surrogate. Hear Jennifer discuss all the aspects of the egg donation process: • How she found out about the possibility of egg donation and why she decided to do it. • The process of egg donation from the LONG application process to the medical tests, psychological testing, legal agreements, follicle stimulation, injections, ultrasounds, trigger shots, egg retrieval process, and more (yes…and more). • Her feelings on having children genetically related to her that she’s never met. The number of parents she helped with her egg donations and the touching stories she has from these families, including some of whom she still keeps in touch (get your tissues ready). Want to share your story or ask a question? Call and leave us a message on our hotline: 303-997-1903. Learn more about our podcast: iwanttoputababyinyou.com 
Learn more about our surrogacy agencies: brightfuturesfamilies.com
 Learn more about Ellen’s law firm: trachmanlawcenter.com
 Learn more about An Angels Gift: angeleggdonation.com Tune in next week when we speak with David Lat, Founder and Editor of Above The Law.

Amira Hasenbush is an attorney and expert in LGBT law and policy, family formation law, surrogacy, sperm and egg donor agreements, adoptions, and name and gender changes in sunny Los Angeles, California. Hear 3 stories from Amira as they relate to the Assisted Reproductive Technology field: • Hiring two surrogates simultaneously? Getting a contract shoved in your face while you’re in labor? A gestational surrogacy case gone wrong. Lesson learned: ALWAYS go through an agency. • A sperm donor getting sued for child support (yes, you read that right)? Lesson learned: ALWAYS go through an agency and consult an attorney. • ICWA - adoption of Native American children and how that works with sperm donation. Lesson learned: ALWAYS go through an agency and consult an attorney. Want to share your story or ask a question? Call and leave us a message on our hotline: 303-997-1903 Learn more about our podcast: iwanttoputababyinyou.com Learn more about our surrogacy agencies: brightfuturesfamilies.com Learn more about Ellen’s law firm: trachmanlawcenter.com Learn more about Amira Hasenbush: allfamilylegal.com Tune in next week when we speak with Jennifer Nelson, the Founder and Program Director of An Angel’s Gift.