Surrogacy & Donor Options for All -Ireland-Dublin

Amanda is the Cycle Coordinator for Hatch and works closely with our IPs & surrogates once they are matched. Amanda is a 2x previous surrogate who is currently matched for a 3^rd journey .  She is a proud military spouse to her husband of 18 years and a mama to 4 children.  A fun fact about her first surrogacy journey is that it was featured on MTV, on True Life: I’m a Surrogate.

Cindy Wasser practiced as a Canadian Criminal Defence lawyer from 1987 until 2008. In that year, she  became a mum to the first of two daughters through an egg donor and gestational surrogacy. This journey led her to her legal specialisation in Fertility Law. Cindy provides legal advice and services to intended parents, Canadian carriers and donors. Cindy has also provided legal advice to fertility medical practitioners and fertility consultant agencies. She has lectured in the area of fertility law at medico-legal conferences and hospitals.

Dr. Librach is the Director of the CReATe Fertility Centre.  A graduate of University of Toronto, he completed undergrad, graduate and a specialty degree in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Librach went on to spend 3 years at the University of California in San Francisco becoming a board certified Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility Specialist. Since 1991 Dr. Librach has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Toronto. He is a Co-Director of the University of Toronto Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Clinic. He is the principal investigator in various clinical and embryology studies and on-going research at Women’s College Hospital and university of Toronto. Dr. Librach has played an active in presenting abstracts at various conferences and meetings. He is frequently interviewed for television, radio and print media.

Edvin has had first-hand experience of surrogacy when his family decided to embark on their personal family building journey. In 2020 he welcomed his daughter Zoe to the world. He is passionate about sharing his personal experiences with other couples and individuals who are looking at commencing their own family building journey. Therefore he joined the team at Hatch Egg Donation & Surrogacy and PFC LA in 2021. Having gone through the journey as a Swedish citizen residing in Europe, he hopes to offer unique perspectives for European couples and individuals pursuing Egg Donation and Surrogacy.

Leia is a mother to five, a two-time gestational surrogate, and a six-time egg donor. She began Canadian Fertility Consulting and Egg Helpers in 2007 after her second surrogacy, with the intention of creating a more rewarding experience for surrogates, egg donors and intended parents. With a background in business development and management, Leia turned her professional passion for alternative family building into a full-time business. Leia believes that surrogacy and egg donation is more than a medical transaction – bringing someone’s child into the world through surrogacy and egg donation is a milestone that deserves to be honoured and celebrated.

Meghan is married, Mom of two living in Rural Alberta.  Being adopted, and knowing that infertility was the reason her parents pursued adoption is what brought Meghan to becoming a surrogate. Meghan has completed one Surrogacy journey for an Irish couple and isworking on a second Journey for another set of intended parents.  She looks forward to sharing more about her journeys at the Growing Families Conference.

Ayoung, brave, selfless woman who’s dedicated to helping others grow their families. She has a 4-year-old son – Sandro, the main motivation for her to become a surrogate mother is Sandro to give her child a bright future.

Naia has an MBA and is a managing partner of Be Parent Surrogacy, a unique full-service agency which currently operates in Georgia and  Cyprus. Naia has experience of working with several IVF clinics for over 7 years and this led her to start a unique, transparent, and personalized surrogacy journey for each intended parent. Be Parent team is like one family where all team members are united under one great mission to make your miracle of having a baby come true. Working for Be Parent Surrogacy is one of the most rewarding experiences she has ever dreamed of: bringing the joy of parenthood to over 250 families throughout the world.   Self-confident and goal-oriented, Naia is inspired by the rapid progress of Be Parent.

Natia has eight years of working experience with number of intended parents who have successfully completed surrogacy and egg donation programs in Georgia. Her activities include full program management and coordination, including donor and surrogate management for the successful completion of a defined program. Over her years of journey in the field, she has successfully implemented more than 2000 egg donation and surrogacy programs. 95% of the clients involved in the programs are international patients from different countries, most of the couples participating in the programs are from Israel, China, USA, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Canada, Australia, Greece, Spain, India and other countries. Many years of work experience helps her to determine the couple’s priorities, identify their needs and help them achieve the desired result. Free consultations are available at: [email protected]

Olga is an Intended Parent Partner at World Center of Baby – a full-service surrogacy agency based in Kyiv, Ukraine dedicated to creating new life while ensuring the interests and safety of the intended parents and surrogates in the field of reproductive technology. Coming from a background in education, Olga became attracted to creating something precious and valuable within the reproductive technologies sector. Olga is actively involved in fertility exhibitions and worldwide seminars in order to share her knowledge and experience with potential parents, partners and fertility professionals.”

Complimentary One on One Consultations are available. To book please email Olga:  [email protected]

With unsurpassed previous diplomatic/embassy experience and contacts, Poonam has made many friends amongst intended parents via international surrogacy for her no-nonsense services ensuring a seamless process for parents eager to return home with their newborns. Well known for her work in India, she has translated this expertise to assisting Australian citizens exit from  Ukraine & Georgia with minimal delays She is an expert in  travel documents, passport and citizenship requirements, flights and hotel arrangements, particularly for Australian  citizens.

Róisín Venables has worked as a specialist Fertility Counsellor for 25 years. She works  with those affected by fertility issues including; Infertility/IUI/IVF/Donor conception/Onco-Fertility and Surrogacy as well as miscarriage, pregnancy loss and termination of pregnancy. She offers implications counselling as well as support and therapeutic counselling before during and after treatment(s). She is a trained Mind Body Medicine practitioner and has designed and run programmes for individuals preparing for and going through fertility treatment here in Ireland as well as those travelling outside the country.  She is one of the founding members and the current chairperson of the Irish Fertility Counsellors Association which was established in 2008. As well as running a busy private practice in Dublin, she is the Director of Counselling and head Supervisor with the Irish Family Planning Association.  She sits on a number of research and advisory committees and up until recently she guested on a radio programme near her home town, where she discussed different issues relating to mental health, counselling and fertility.

Sam is the dad to two girls Zoe & Ruby via surrogacy and as the global Director of Growing Families has become one of the globe’s foremost commentators and researchers on surrogacy trends, capacity and bst practice. Through conferences, seminars and consulting he has assisted over a thousand singles and couples to plan safe and reliable routes to building families through surrogacy & donor IVF. With a background in public health and research he is also the author of three books.

Tamari is an experienced international fertility manager,  with a long history working in local and international health care industry, a Medical degree and a Master’s degree in Public Health and Health Policy. What she enjoys most  is the variety of roles and the type of environments she is exposed to. Being involved in the fertility sector allows Tamari to work with different teams on new projects/programs, work in different cultural environments, be exposed to various systems, and manage her time and efforts against very specific deliverables, thus being able to gain insight into managing projects from different angles.  Her specific interest is in the inter-dependencies of global and national practices, in how policies are written  based on different regional contexts and translated into real medical solution to ensure better health outcomes.

Complimentary One on One Consultations are available. To book please email [email protected]

Aisling’s twins,  are four and born via surrogacy in the Ukraine in December 2017 following many years of IVF and recurrent miscarriage. Aisling had always known she would need IVF following treatment for an ovarian cyst however  she ran into issues quite quickly.  After trying various treatment routes Aisling fell pregnant however went on to have recurrent miscarriages. She and her husband attended the first Families Through Surrogacy (now Growing Families) conference in April 2016 and following a lot of research signed up to the clinic in the Ukraine in December that year. Aisling is delighted to attend the conference and share her experience.

Audrey is a mum via surrogacy in Ukraine. She will talk about coming to terms with having to outsource carrying a child to someone she did not know

Emma and her husband Adrian are  parents via surrogacy in Georgia, with the help of ReproArt. Adrian has children via a previous marriage, but Emma is a first time mum. Their child Sebastian was born via ED surrogacy on 17 February and they join us live from Tbilisi Georgia to describe their journey, the ups and downs  and the vagaries of travel during Covid-19.

Jason and his partner attended previous Growing Families Dublin conferences in 2018 and 2019 and are now dads to two boys (19 months, and 4 weeks) with the help of Canadian Fertility Consultants and CReATe in Canada. Arriving back in Ireland from Canada on 1 Sept 2021 they are keen to give back to the community they learned so much from. Jason will share their experience, as well as practical issues around costs, travel and exit processes during the pandemic.

Molly and her partner Niall are an Irish couple who engaged in Canada to have a child with the help of Canadian Fertility Consulting after a long and heart-breaking fertility journey. Baby Elliot was born in Alberta  on September 4th 2020, carried by surrogate Meghan with the support of her husband Travis . Elliot is the light of their lives and a miracle that was worth waiting and fighting for.

Neil & Andrew  live in Northern Ireland and  work in banking and air travel respectively. Their son Oisin was born in November 2016 in the UK via gestational independent surrogacy after four years of planning. Neil and his partner looked at many different options before deciding on the UK. They met their surrogate through an online surrogacy forum in April 2015. Whilst they experienced some challenges, they feel so lucky to have overcome these and to be bringing up the child they have long dreamed of.

Sharon was diagnosed with MRKH in her 20s.  She had hysterectomy in my late 20s but her ovaries remained. She and her husband initially tried in India but were unsuccessful.Sharon is now a little over 40 living in Dublin. She has boy/girl twins eventually born through egg donor surrogacy 8 weeks premature in November 2017 in Ukraine.