Can I share our surrogacy journey on social media?

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Intended parents and surrogates will discuss many topics before beginning a surrogacy journey together—social media, consent, and privacy, included. Jenn explains how each journey can vary when it comes to sharing details on social media.

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Hey everyone, it's Jennifer White CEO of Bright Futures Families Surrogacy with this week's question, which is can I share my surrogacy journey on social media or online? And the answer is it really comes down to making an agreement with both parties to make sure that everybody feels comfortable with that. It can be as simple as sometimes people are saying, hey, I don't care if you share it. I just don't want to be identified myself. So you share your own part of it. It also could be sometimes parents say, hey, I would really prefer that you share nothing or don't care. We're happy to share everything with you all around. It really comes down to consent all the way around on both sides. Again, it's something that you can talk about. I know I harp on this a lot. 

Is that really setting up that match meeting and making sure that everybody's in alignment from the start is so important and that is something that absolutely can and should be discussed during matching. We really want to make sure that everybody is going to have an amazing journey. So if you as a surrogate really what you want is to be able to share every moment and have all that out there, then we want to make sure that we either match you with parents who are okay with that and want to join in or that are at least okay with you being out there and sharing every moment of your journey. 

Likewise, if you as a surrogate are super private and you want nothing about yourself online, we absolutely want to make sure that your intended parents aren't going to ask you to be part of something too. So it's really about alignment of expectations. But yes, if all parties agree, you absolutely can share your service attorney online.