Patient Stories
Our Patient Stories include messages, stories about our patients’ fertility journeys and photos of our babies.


Two surrogate babies for two happy daddies
We wanted to say a huge thank you to Herts & Essex and share a little of our story having now completed our family with two beautiful girls thanks to the help of the clinic and our wonderful surrogate.
We are a same-sex male couple who had been together for 15 years before starting the process for our first daughter. We had considered various options including adoption and fostering and finally decided that surrogacy was the perfect route for us. We used donor eggs and found an amazing surrogate Danielle who was perfect for us and had very similar outlooks and interests and we decided to go ahead. We started the process in Glasgow before transferring our frozen embryos to H&E which was much nearer our surrogate and from then on the process was so smooth and the whole team at the clinic (special mention to Sarah whom we had most dealings with!) were really informative and reassuring. Our first daughter Holly was born in 2021 and we were so happy with the way things went that we decided to try again. After waiting for more donor eggs to become available we eventually welcomed our second daughter Sophie in 2023.
We feel that we have been so lucky to have had this opportunity and now have two healthy and happy girls and our family is complete. We have a great relationship with our surrogate and would recommend this route and clinic to anyone who is considering it – Herts & Essex is very experienced in the process and was able to guide us through each step and keep us alright!
George & William