What are the rules surrounding pictures and baby announcements on your social media?

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Mutual consent required: Surrogates and intended parents must agree on what pictures can be posted online.

Confidentiality practice: Shared surrogacy stories typically avoid identifiable information to protect privacy.

Baby announcements by parents: Intended parents decide how and when to announce their child's birth, prioritizing their privacy.

Ongoing communication essential: Regularly revisit permissions to align on privacy boundaries and maintain trust throughout the journey.

Check out Questions Frequently Asked by Surrogates.

Transcript:

Hey everyone, it's Amanda with today's Ask Question. And the question is "What are the rules surrounding pictures on social media or even the baby announcement?" And you have to agree. The surrogate and the intended parents have to agree what is posted, if you can post, if you include pictures, if you include tagging the other person. We obviously want to make sure and you want to make sure that you have permission to do so. I will say typically journeys are shared without any identifying information, whether that means pictures or being tagged in a photo. But you share about the process and how it's going. Baby announcements, honestly, I leave that up to the intended parents. It is their baby and how they announce it and how they want the world to know if it happened. If they even want to announce it on social media, they may be very private people and don't want to share those things. So this is something I would discuss in the match meeting and discuss along the way and just make sure that you're on the same page and that you have permission to post if you do so. Hope that helps.