‘It took us to hell and back – but was worth it’: Ben and Georgie Ainslie on their surrogacy journey
The TelegraphThe reason for going into such detail on the IVF, and just how grim that was, is because it informed their decision on surrogacy. It’s the same with IVF, how can we make that more fair?” ‘Bellatrix knows that Fox had a Tummy Mummy’ As for other ethical concerns, it was only a small leap in their minds from using a donor egg in Georgie’s womb to using a surrogate. “We had already tried using Ben’s sperm, a donor egg and my womb, so this felt like the last step in our IVF journey. And once we had decided, we didn’t waver.” Having already selected their egg donor prior to Georgie’s final round of IVF – a completely anonymous process which involves scrolling through thousands of profiles – they found a surrogate in California via an agency, and two eggs were implanted. Bellatrix has been wonderful today, but she said, ‘After this, you and Daddy and her are going to America, because you’ve got to collect her baby brother’.” Georgie says she and Ben decided to tell Bellatrix about Fox early on because Georgie was not pregnant and because she felt it would be even more confusing to try to explain everything at once.
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