In this episode IVF Daddies examines how modern family building is evolving beyond clinics and contracts into community infrastructure.

We sit down with the founders of Families Out Loud to analyze what has changed in the surrogacy landscape over the past year and what that shift tells us about the future of IVF assisted reproduction and intended parent education.

This is not a promotional conversation. It is an industry level discussion about

Why safe spaces matter in surrogacyHow same sex and heterosexual journeys begin differently but merge in processWhat actually builds trust between intended parents and providersHow the surrogacy community responds when agencies collapseWhy education reduces risk and shortens consultation cyclesThe rise of AI tools in assisted reproductive technology

Surrogacy is process management with human emotion layered on top.And the starting point determines everything.

If you are exploring IVF egg donation gestational surrogacy or navigating infertility this episode provides structural clarity not hype.

IVF Daddies remains committed to decoding assisted reproduction through lived experience transparency and systems level insight.

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nonprofit fertility support

CHAPTERS

00:00 One Year Later What Changed in Surrogacy02:48 From Niche Community to Cross Family Infrastructure05:29 What a Safe Space in Surrogacy Actually Means08:28 Trust Vulnerability and Emotional Risk11:03 Different Starting Points Same IVF Process14:03 Educating Families and Reducing Stigma16:46 The Role of Providers and Ethical Collaboration19:43 When an Agency Fails How the Industry Responds22:29 Nonprofit Structure and Education Strategy24:22 The Rise of AI in Assisted Reproduction28:40 Why Education Protects Intended Parents31:18 Building Sustainable Family Building Infrastructure

Surrogacy is not just a medical process.It is infrastructure.

The families who start informed are the families who finish protected.

What happens when a non-profit succeeds so completely that it stops being charity and becomes infrastructure?

In this episode of IVF Daddies, we sit down with Ron Poole-Dayan, founder of Men Having Babies, to examine how gay fatherhood moved from legal impossibility to corporate policy, insurance coverage, and international debate, and what it actually costs to change a system at scale.

This is not a feel-good conversation about surrogacy.
It is a systems-level discussion about power, ethics, money, advocacy, and the uncomfortable reality that any non-profit operating near medicine, law, and vulnerable populations eventually becomes a gatekeeper.

We explore:

• Why redefining infertility as a social status changed insurance law

• How workplace benefits quietly replaced litigation

• Why ethical standards create both protection and exclusion

• Why the goal of real advocacy is to make itself unnecessary

This episode matters now, especially in Europe, as debates around surrogacy, cross-border family building, and regulation intensify ahead of major community and policy conversations in Brussels.

If you care about family, ethics, systems, and how change actually happens, this conversation is for you.

We’re releasing this episode as we head to Brussels on the 7th to engage directly with families, advocates, and institutions navigating the next phase of family-building infrastructure in Europe.

This conversation is not about defending one organization.
It is about understanding how social change actually works, and why every mature movement eventually faces scrutiny not for failing, but for succeeding.

If you want elite parenting to be boring, protected, and normal, this is the price.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Why Men Having Babies Exists02:48 Financial Assistance and Industry Proximity05:41 Advocacy, Law, and Institutional Power08:22 Redefining Infertility, Medical vs Social Status10:48 Workplace Benefits and Corporate Policy13:35 Cultural Blind Spots Around Male Parenthood16:18 How Surrogacy Evolved and Why It’s Contested19:01 When Advocacy Becomes Infrastructure

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This episode is relevant to:

• Surrogacy ethics

• LGBTQ+ parenting

• Non-profit governance

• Insurance coverage and infertility law

• Workplace family benefits

• European surrogacy regulation

• Family-building infrastructure

• Reproductive justice and institutional power

What if some of the most damaging IVF advice women hear doesn’t come from social media, but from oversimplified medical reassurance and pop-culture fertility narratives?

In this episode of IVF Daddies, Richard Westoby sits down with reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Brooke Freeman to unpack one of the most misunderstood and quietly harmful fertility myths:
“You have time.”

We break down why markers like AMH measure egg quantity, not quality, why age still matters biologically no matter how “good” your numbers look, and why being told you can wait in your 40s often leads to irreversible loss of options.

Dr. Freeman explains:

• Why egg freezing and IVF are tools, not guarantees

• Why “it only takes one” is true, but dangerously incomplete

• How false reassurance creates false hope

• Why celebrities and TV shows distort fertility expectations by leaving out donor eggs and embryo freezing

• And why context matters more than comfort when people are making life-defining decisions

This episode is not medical advice.
It’s not about blaming doctors.
And it’s not about scaring people.

It’s about telling the truth with clarity, before time runs out.

If you’ve ever felt confused by fertility advice, pressured by age, or misled by success stories that don’t tell the whole story, this conversation is for you.

Chapters

00:00 Understanding Egg Freezing and Fertility

02:38 The Reality of IVF and Age Factors

05:51 The Importance of Accurate Medical Advice

08:29 Empowering Women in Fertility Choices

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CULTURE CONTEXT DISCUSSED