E12: Our friend offered to be our surrogate in the UK but our embryos were in the USA: Stuart & Francis

10/17/22 • 50 min

This week Sanjay chats to Stuart and Francis Armfield-Haugen, gay dads through surrogacy to their son Rio. They started their journey to becoming parents through surrogacy in the USA which is where they made their embryos. Then their friend Sam offered to be their surrogate and they ended up doing their journey between the USA and the UK. We talk about their approach to parenting, their outlook on life, the best things about being dads and the challenges they had with the UK parental order process.
The Proud Parent Club is the inclusive LGBTQ+ parenting podcast and community hosted by Sanjay Sood-Smith, gay dad through surrogacy with his husband Doug, a.k.a. The Travelling Gays. Subscribe for reminders of each LGBT parenting podcast out weekly and follow us on Instagram. Whether you are an LGBT parent or lesbian, gay, bi or trans future parent there will be something for you.
Stuart and Francis: @stuartandfrancis on TikTok | @stueyarmfield and @francishaugen on Instagram
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10/17/22 • 50 min

The Proud Parent Club - E12: Our friend offered to be our surrogate in the UK but our embryos were in the USA: Stuart & Francis

Transcript

Stuart & Francis

Stuart: [00:00:00] We went to drama school, it was like, you're not allowed to be gay. Don't tell anyone you are. If you do, then you won't get jobs. You won't get jobs. Yeah. And so I was kind of like masking loads of things in my twenties.

Francis: I just remember him storming into the Bri storming with passion, it was like an afternoon in April where you know, we're not, can't go out and do anything.

It's like, Right,

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