If someone told me years ago that Instagram would become one of the most important tools in my baby-making journey, I would have laughed at them. Until recently, my Instagram feed was mostly my lunch, vacation highlights and photos of my dog. That changed dramatically when my husband and I decided we were ready to have children. 
We always knew having kids would be a very different process for us. As someone with a chronic health condition, I take daily medication to keep me safe and healthy. Taking my twice-daily pills allows me to live a life full of opportunity?I work, I travel and I enjoy life to its fullest. The only thing I can?t do" Be pregnant.
The medication I take isn?t pregnancy-safe, and coming off of it isn?t an option without life-threatening risk. Accepting that I would never carry a baby was complete heartache. I felt less than, and it seemed like everything existed to remind me that an integral part of my womanhood was missing. I tried desperately to come off of my medication despite major health ramifications and cried more tears than I?d like to admit. Accepting that I would never be pregnant crushed me. Then I learned about surrogacy. My husband and I started researching much the same way everyone does, on Google. What we found left us almost more confused than before. Surrogacy isn?t a common way to build a family, and so resources felt scarce. We learned there was a name for people like us?”intended parents”?but also quickly discovere...