I'm currently breastfeeding. Can I be a surrogate?

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Hey everyone, it's Jennifer White, CEO of Bright Futures Families Surrogacy, with this week's question, which is: I am currently breastfeeding. Can I be a surrogate? And the answer is, eventually you can be, but not while you are currently breastfeeding. So in order to be able to move forward to a medical screening, you actually need to have completed breastfeeding and had two cycles resumed since that point in time. That doesn't mean, though, that you can't start pursuing it. We can't start having a conversation, gathering your medical records, getting things ready in anticipation of the fact that you will be. Because a lot of times, like an end date, they're like, hey, you know, I'm anticipating that we will wean around my baby's first birthday or things like that. That means that we can start gathering things and get ready and then be ready when you are ready.