By Josie Mae Mitchell

The Benefits of Using the Surrogacy Guided Journal: Baby or Not Here We Grow

If you are becoming a parent through surrogacy, we at More Choices Publications have the perfect journal for you. Our Surrogacy Guide is the newest guided journal in our Baby or Not Here We Grow series. The Surrogacy Guide will be your companion through every step of the surrogacy process. The surrogacy guided journal includes practical advice while also encouraging personal reflection and documentation of your beautiful journey through prompts and exercises. 

More Choices Publications is a publisher of journals, books, and e-training courses focused on surrogacy, adoption, and fertility. We are very excited about the release of our surrogacy guided journal and the way it will empower parents along their surrogacy journeys. 

Guided Reflection to Promote Emotional Well-Being

Preparing for a new baby can be a rollercoaster of emotions, no matter which route you take to parenthood. Excitement about the arrival of your baby can certainly be prevalent. You may also be feeling anxiety or stress over being ready for your baby. 

Surrogacy might bring a unique set of emotions for you, some of which can feel very challenging. Some parents’ surrogacy journeys are preceded by the grief of infertility or the frustration of continuous fertility treatments. Others have faced disappointment in the adoption process. Grief over past experiences and routes to parenthood inaccessible to you is entirely normal. We hope, however, that your surrogacy journey also contains a fair share of hope and joy.

Surrogacy Guide: Baby or Not Here We Grow contains numerous prompts to help you write about your emotions surrounding surrogacy. Our prompts have been meticulously developed to encourage deep reflection throughout each stage of your surrogacy journey. You will be gently guided all the way from finding a surrogate to bringing your baby home.

In such a monumental time in your life, your feelings may be ever-changing and overwhelming. Journaling may help you clarify your feelings and expectations about the process. Clear expectations about your surrogacy journey might make it feel more manageable. Writing can also be a wonderful outlet for difficult or stuck emotions. 

If you have experienced fertility struggles, our Infertility Guide: Baby or Not Here We Grow may additionally be helpful. Journaling can be a healing coping mechanism for grief. Continuing to work through your past experiences is important even as you embark on your surrogacy journey. 

Documentation of Your Journey and Personal Growth

Our Surrogacy Guide makes a wonderful lifelong keepsake documenting the leadup to having your baby with you. There are many pages where you will be encouraged so save memories or write about important moments in the process. Long after your baby is born, you can look back and remember how you felt as you waited. You reflect on how you have changed and grown as a parent. 

Your child may even love to see the journal one day. It can be a lovely reminder of how much you loved and prepared for them. We highly encourage you to personalize your copy of the journal. Write extra notes or squeeze in your own questions, make it colorful, glue in pictures from the process. Your journal should be a safe space you can turn into a full memento of your surrogacy journey.

Communication and Emotional Support From Your Partner

If you are going through the surrogacy process with a partner, the Surrogacy Guide can promote mutual support and communication. One option is sharing a single copy and filling it up together as a collaborative project. However, having one copy each will give you both more opportunities to reflect on your individual experiences. 

Filling out the next section of your journal might become part of your daily or weekly routine together. Journaling might be a sweet bonding experience. You can share each other’s excitement and help each other through difficult moments. Remember, it is perfectly normal to have different struggles from your partner within the surrogacy process. It is important to acknowledge how best you can support each other.

Clarifying your emotions and expectations individually will then make them easier to voice to each other as well. As mentioned before, preparing for a baby can be stressful. Often, it can put extra strain on relationships. The Surrogacy Guide can help you work through any strain in a calm, organized way. Working on it together might help both of you feel less isolated in any overwhelming stress or anxiety. 

If you do not have a partner, the Surrogacy Guide helps you share your surrogacy experiences with friends and family. No matter what, our journal empowers you to communicate your needs and feelings to the people who love you. 

Preorder the Baby or Not Here We Grow Series Today

As the newest addition to our series, Surrogacy Guide: Baby or Not Here We Grow is currently available for preorder. Soon, it will be available for purchase on Amazon and Barnes and Noble online. 

Sign up for preorder and gain the expertly crafted guidance and empowerment our journal provides on every page. While you wait for your copy, be sure to check out our Infertility Guide and Adoption Guide for additional support.