Jimmy Fallon and Wife Welcome Child Via Surrogate Mother

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Two weeks after announcing that he and his wife had welcomed a baby girl, new dad Jimmy Fallon reveals their daughter Winnie Rose was born via surrogate.
“It wasn’t really a secret, but my wife and I had been trying for awhile to have a baby. We’ve tried a bunch of different things, so we had a surrogate,” the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon host says in a new interview with TODAY.
Having faced fertility struggles before, Fallon, 38, and his wife Nancy, 46, chose to keep the exciting news to themselves, preferring to celebrate with family and friends once they were officially first-time parents.

“This time we just said we’re not going to tell anybody, it’d be just more fun if it’s just private between me and my wife and then we get to introduce her to everybody,” Fallon explains.

But when Winnie finally made her big debut, the couple’s decision to keep the pregnancy quiet caused a last-minute run around.
“When it happened we were in shock. We’re like, ‘Alright, who do we tell? Who’s going to be mad at us if this gets out?’” he recalls. “We had to call everybody and it’s so emotional when you call everybody.”

Life, Love, Surrogacy: Inspiring Surrogate Mommy Bloggers

There are some wonderful surrogate mothers who have blogged beautifully about their experiences. It is such a gift to anyone considering surrogacy--Intended Parents and/or Surrogate Mothers--to be able to read these rich, revealing accounts.

I love this paragraph from Life, Love and Surrogacy

Back in December (as you know) I gave birth (in a most spectacular manner) to two of the loveliest human beings.  I am  in SHOCK as I tell you they are 5 days shy of their half-birthday!!!  I am literally the HAPPIEST person alive in part because 3 parents, 5 grandparents and many cousins, aunts, godparents and friends are living in a brighter world.  I am happy to say my life is richer and my horizons are broader because of 2 remarkable families.  I am content to move on from this era of my life knowing I have fulfilled one of my callings, to help create a family (or 2) by way of surrogacy.  Though I may never again be pregnant, I will always know 4 sweet things are babbling, getting food on the carpet, potty training, saying mama and dada in part because my family and I said YES to these most amazing journeys.

On Why Surrogate Mothers Are Like Unicorns: A Beautiful Blog Post We Had to Share

This is THE GREATEST blog post from "I'm Not the Mom, I'm Just the Stork" a funny, informative, full-of-feeling blog by a surrogate mother.

I am a mother and then some.


Surrogates are amazing.  I think we are a lot like unicorns . . . you’ve heard about them but have never seen one in person.  When I meet people, most are intrigued and have a million questions.  Lucky for them, I have a million answers.  When women say, “I could never do that,” I simply reply, “Then don’t.”  It takes a very special woman to become a surrogate.  Actually, it takes a very special mom to become a surrogate.  For only mothers, truly understand the gift they are giving and the amazing lessons of love and family their own children are about to learn.  These surrogates are teachers, nurses, day care providers, etc. but above all, they are mothers.

I will always be a mother.  It’s part of who I am.  I will always be a Surrogate.  It, too, is part of who I am.  Years from now I will look back at my experiences and will swell with pride when I think of the families I helped create. Not just my own, but six other parents who have been able to live the dream.  Yes, I am a mother, and then some.
I will always be a mother.  It’s part of who I am.  I will always be a Surrogate.  It, too, is part of who I am.  Years from now I will look back at my experiences and will swell with pride when I think of the families I helped create. Not just my own, but six other parents who have been able to live the dream.  Yes, I am a mother, and then some.

Since 2001, I have given birth to eight healthy babies.  I don’t actually have eight kids running around my house, but eight healthy embryos have flourished in my uterus over the years.  Three of those were my own children and the other five grew into babies for three other families.  You see, I am not just a mother but I am a Gestational Surrogate and even though I’m not the mother of my surrogate babies, with every hope their parents had, every pregnancy, every birth, every experience of placing a newborn in their parent’s arms, I relived my own journey to motherhood.  As I helped others realize their dreams of becoming parents, I was continually reminded how truly amazing being a mother can be.  Not just in the delivery room when your child takes their first breath but how every day you have with your child is an adventure and a blessing.

I was lucky that I had a very easy time conceiving, very easy pregnancies and very easy deliveries.  I loved, and continue to love being a mom.  I also loved being pregnant.  I learned about the concept of surrogacy pretty early on and thought, even before I had my own children, that it was something that I would like to do.  How amazing must it be to help people who can’t have children (for one reason or another) become parents?  Little did I know that it would be one of the most amazing things I’d ever do in my lifetime.  Who knew my uterus could be so marvelous?  And I am not alone.  Across the country there are women, who already know the joys motherhood brings, who are ready to help give something great to others.

Every year, when Mother’s Day arrives, I celebrate the fact that I am a mother to my own three.  I do not celebrate the births of surro-babies that day, that’s what their birthdays are for.  I do, however, think of the many surrogates I know, that have bestowed one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone.  Regardless of compensation, there is a certain amount of altruism that surrogates have.  I also think about all women who celebrate their own motherhood, regardless of how they got there.  Alternative Insemination? IVF? Adoption? Surrogacy?  There are so many ways to arrive at motherhood, not one better than the other.

VISIT HER SITE HERE: http://justthestork.blogspot.com/2013/05/my-mothers-day-post.html

A Guest Blog Post: Infertility Is Unfair and RESOLVE Is Great

Thank you to our Guest Blogger, Lucille, who is sharing her story with us so we can, in turn, share with you. 

 

When I found out that my husband and I could not just let nature take its course and that we could not get pregnant like the last gazillion people in history before us who put their parts together and ended up parents, I was beyond rattled.  Nature wasn’t taking its course because our course was all messed up.  We were in our late 30’s but had been very blasé and unbothered about our ages because we live in California where celebrities are walking around at 48 with adorable twins, sporting them like designer handbags.  Nobody told me that their twins were not the product of their eggs; I was just blissfully ignorant.  I figured that “it would happen” and I thought giving birth was my birth right.  I felt that a woman who wanted to be a mother as badly as I wanted it would surely have her prayers answered. 

Think again, sister.  Thus followed the nights that were so melodramatic I almost felt like I was looking down on myself and saying, “Now this is soap opera material, this is.” Waking up crying, arms reaching for a baby, and sleepless nights where I wondered if we—my husband and I—should just cut our losses and go find some more fertile ground –literally—elsewhere in other partners.  Still, I am made of stern stuff.  I knew that after my cameo appearance in my soap opera I would find my bearings and start to make a plan.  Before this, however, I had the good luck to find RESOLVE.  This organization put me in touch with a support group in my area where I sat with other women and one brave man to discuss our pain and to help each other move through it to a solution.  Our leader said, “Every one of you in this room will have come to some resolution in the next five years—you will either be parents or you will have decided to live child free—but I know that things will shift.”  She was right but it meant the world to hear her confident prediction. 

Today, when my daughter is sitting at the kitchen table, doing her math homework, I remember the support I received through RESOLVE and am forever grateful.