Jonas & Yosef
Sweden
Hi! We’re Jonas and Yosef, a couple from Stockholm, Sweden. We’ve been together for 10 years and engaged for five, and from very early in our relationship, we knew that becoming parents was something we both deeply wanted.
We are both medical doctors and have built careers in healthcare. While Stockholm is home, we also love spending time at our country house in southern Sweden, where we can slow down and enjoy being together. Yosef is a dual U.S. and Swedish citizen, and we travel to California often to spend time with his family.
Becoming dads has been a lifelong dream for both of us. In fact, we started talking about having children within the very first year of our relationship. We feel incredibly fortunate in the life we have built together and know that we have so much love, stability, family, and support to offer a child.
As we begin our surrogacy journey, one of the things that matters most to us is the relationship we build with the woman who chooses to help us become parents. Our hope would be to have a genuine connection throughout the journey and, if it feels right for everyone, to remain in each other’s lives afterward. At the same time, we completely respect that every surrogate has her own hopes and boundaries around what that relationship looks like.
Our dream is to eventually have two children. If we formed a wonderful connection with our surrogate and she someday wanted to consider another journey together, that would be incredibly special to us — but never something we would expect.
We have PGT-A tested embryos at CReATe Fertility Centre in Toronto, created while living in Sweden, and we are excited and ready to take the next step toward growing our family.
More than anything, we hope to find someone with whom we can share this experience with openness, kindness, trust, and a lot of excitement. We know what an extraordinary gift surrogacy is, and we would be incredibly grateful to the person who chooses to take this journey alongside us.
With love,
Jonas & Yosef
Adrien and Owen
Toronto, Canada
Thank you for taking the time to read through our profile and for considering sharing this journey with us! It means more than we can say.
We're Owen and Adrien - a couple based in Toronto who have built a life together over the past 18 years. We've been at each other's side through ups and downs, international moves, and lots of change. These experiences have brought us to where we are now, and we wouldn't have it any other way. Throughout this profile, we've tried to give you a genuine sense of who we are - how we live, what we value, and what kind of people we hope to be as parents.
A wise person once said that in every relationship there is an ‘agent of order’ and an ‘agent of chaos’... a ‘Kermit’ and a ‘Miss Piggy’, if you will! Owen keeps us all organized and moving forward, bringing a steady, calm presence to every room. He can often be found working on a house project, catching a movie at the local theatre, or reading with our beagle Josh snuggled by his side. Adrien can be found at art gallery openings, writing a new essay, racing his beloved boat, or catching up with friends - there is never enough time in the day! Perhaps you can guess who is who...
We are lucky to be very close with our parents and siblings, a supportive extended family, and a great network of friends. We are looking forward to growing our family by becoming parents, and hope to share this experience with you.
We see surrogacy as an ultimate act of generosity, and we approach this opportunity with deep gratitude. We hope to build a relationship that is mutually supportive and caring - one where you feel comfortable sharing both the good and hard days, and where open and brave communication is welcomed. Building an authentic connection with someone through this process would be a gift in and of itself.
We would love to get to know you as a person, understand what brings you to this journey, and hear about your own experience as a parent. Long-term, we would welcome an ongoing relationship so that our child can one day understand the story of how they came into the world.
We are so looking forward to meeting you!
Yoyo & Kevin
Toronto, Ontario
Even though we may not have met yet, we already feel immense gratitude toward women like you who consider helping families grow through surrogacy. Your kindness and generosity are truly extraordinary.
Our names are Yoyo and Kevin, and we have been together for nearly two decades. We met in 2005, fell in love quickly, and married in 2008. Over the years, we have built a life filled with love, laughter, friendship, and unwavering support for one another. We enjoy traveling, hiking in nature, and spending quiet evenings at home together with tea and books. Through every stage of life, we have always been each other’s safe place.
For many years, we dreamed of becoming parents and creating a loving home for a child. In 2019, we experienced the joy of pregnancy for the first time. We were beyond excited and already imagining our future as a family of three. From the very beginning, we dreamed about the little life growing inside me and imagined the family we would become. Kevin often said he hoped for a little girl who would be as kind and lovely as her mother.
But at eight weeks, our world suddenly changed. We learned that the pregnancy was a rare molar pregnancy, and we had to undergo an emergency termination. Losing our baby was heartbreaking. When we returned home from the hospital, we held each other and cried together, trying to process the pain and emptiness we felt.
Only one month later, we received even more devastating news: the molar pregnancy had become cancerous. We were urgently referred to Sunnybrook Hospital, where Dr. Osborne and the incredible nurses at the Odette Cancer Centre cared for me with extraordinary compassion and professionalism. During one of the darkest periods of our lives, their kindness gave us strength and hope.
Thankfully, the cancer was treatable with chemotherapy. I endured nine long months of treatment, and in October 2020, I was finally declared cancer-free and in remission. It was a journey that tested us emotionally and physically, but it also showed us how deeply we could support and love one another through even the hardest moments.
Although the treatment saved my life, it also caused early menopause and took away my ability to carry a child. Even then, we were not ready to give up on our dream of becoming parents. With hope in our hearts, we turned to Create Fertility and, under Dr. Glass’s guidance, began our journey using an egg donor. We held onto hope through eight embryo transfers, but sadly none were successful. Eventually, Dr. Glass gently suggested that surrogacy might be the path meant for us.
This is our very first surrogacy journey, and everything about it feels both emotional and humbling. While the road to parenthood has not been the one we imagined, it has taught us resilience, gratitude, and the true meaning of hope.
To us, surrogates are extraordinary people. You are compassionate, selfless, and deeply brave. The possibility that someone like you would help us bring a child into this world is something we can hardly put into words. It would mean giving us the chance to finally experience bedtime stories, family holidays, tiny footsteps in our home, and all the love we have been waiting so long to share.
We dream of creating a warm, loving, and supportive home where our child will always feel safe, encouraged, and deeply cherished. Family means everything to us, and if you choose to help us on this journey, you will forever hold a special place in our hearts and in our child’s story.
Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, for considering us and for the incredible gift you make possible for families like ours.
With gratitude and warmth,
Yoyo & Kevin
Melissa And Brian
Keswick, Ontario
Hi! We’re Melissa & Brian from Keswick, Ontario, along with our daughter Mia(Brian's daughter and Melissa's bonus daughter) and our pup Phoebe. We met at work, literally. Brian was overseeing a bank renovation, and Melissa was the bank manager. What started as playful banter over blueprints quickly turned into something more. Brian left his number “just in case,” Melissa texted anyway, and we’ve been inseparable ever since. Our path to growing our family hasn’t been straightforward. Due to endometriosis and a hormone-sensitive cancer diagnosis, carrying a pregnancy or continuing fertility treatments isn’t medically safe for Melissa. While this wasn’t the journey we imagined, it led us to surrogacy with clarity, gratitude, and deep respect for the incredible person who might help us grow our family. Surrogacy has been on our hearts, and we’re embracing it with so much hope and appreciation. We dream of the day we can look back with our baby in our arms and say we made it through this together.
As we move through this journey together, we hope to build a relationship rooted in trust, open communication, and mutual respect. We want to be a team, supporting one another every step of the way as we work toward the shared goal of bringing a healthy baby into the world. Your well-being, your voice, and your comfort will always matter to us. We envision you being a meaningful part of our lives before, during, and after the pregnancy, in whatever way feels right and comfortable for everyone involved. We believe relationships grow naturally, and we want any connection we build to be authentic, supportive, and grounded in care, never forced or expected. What you are offering us is an opportunity we never thought we’d have. This journey means everything to us, not just because it brings us closer to becoming parents, but because it fills a missing piece in our hearts and in our family. Melissa’s parents are beyond excited at the thought of becoming grandparents, and this path gives all of us hope, joy, and something truly beautiful to look forward to.
What you are offering us, not just because it brings us closer to becoming parents, but because it fills a missing piece in our hearts and in our family. Melissa’s parents are beyond excited at the thought of becoming grandparents, and this path gives all of us hope, joy, and something truly beautiful to look forward to. We know that nothing we say or do could ever fully repay you for the gift you are giving us. Please know that your role in our family’s story will always be honoured and remembered with gratitude. You will forever hold a special place in our hearts for helping us grow our family. Thank you for considering walking this journey with us. We would be honoured to do it together, with care, respect, and endless appreciation. With all our gratitude,
Melissa and Brian
Adrien, Pablo & Alvaro
Paris, France
Meet Pablo, Adrien, and their son Alvaro, a Spanish-French family living in Paris whose greatest adventure has been becoming parents.
After welcoming Alvaro through surrogacy in 2020, their lives were forever changed. What began as a dream became a family filled with laughter, travel, love, and countless cherished memories. Now, as Alvaro grows and talks excitedly about becoming a big brother, they are hoping to begin the next chapter of their story.
Disney has always held a special place in their hearts. They believe, much like the stories they love, that families are created in many different ways and that the most meaningful journeys are built on hope, kindness, and a little magic!
As they pursue a second surrogacy journey, they are looking for more than someone to help them grow their family, they hope to build a genuine friendship based on trust, respect, and open communication. They deeply value the relationship they shared with their first surrogate and hope to create another meaningful connection that lasts long after the journey is complete.
Whether spending time in Paris, visiting family in the French countryside, or enjoying sunny days in Spain, Pablo, Adrien, and Alvaro are excited to welcome another child into their lives and share the love that already fills their home.
Their greatest wish is simple: to grow their family, create a sibling for Alvaro, and share this incredible journey with someone who becomes a treasured part of their story.
Michi & Nicholas
Switzerland
Hi! We’re Michael (Michi) and Nicholas, and we live in Zurich, Switzerland. Originally from Germany and Malaysia, we met by pure serendipity and had our first date in Paris. Not long after, we embarked on a 200 km, five-day hike along the Camino de Santiago in Spain — quite the start to our life of adventures together!
A few years into our relationship, we knew we shared the same dream of becoming dads. After exploring adoption and fostering in Switzerland, we ultimately chose surrogacy as our path to building a family.
To us, parenthood means raising children who feel deeply loved and supported while encouraging them to embrace the world around them. We hope to share the values we learned from our own upbringings and celebrate their unique German and Malaysian heritage. Our family and friends are incredibly supportive and excited to welcome our future children into their lives.
Although living in Switzerland means there will be some distance between us and our surrogate, we are committed to being present throughout the journey — both virtually and in person for important milestones. Our experience with our egg donor taught us how meaningful communication and sharing our lives can be, and we hope to build that same kind of genuine connection with our surrogate.
We currently have 10 PGT-A tested embryos at Victory Reproductive Care and are excited and ready for this next chapter.
More than anything, we hope to find someone we can support, celebrate with, and build a warm and trusting relationship with as we take this incredible journey toward becoming dads.
With love,
Michi & Nicholas
When David and Allen met for Thai food on a chilly Toronto evening, neither expected it would lead to a lifetime of shared adventures — from backwoods camping to an around-the-world trip. Now, years later, this devoted couple is ready to embark on their most meaningful journey yet: building their family through surrogacy.
Together, they’ve built a life grounded in respect, laughter, and love — a balance of art and adventure, city lights and quiet forests. Surrounded by supportive family and friends (including an egg donor who happens to be David’s sister), they dream of welcoming a child into their world of warmth, curiosity, and connection.
As they navigate the emotional and intimate path to parenthood, David and Allen hope to share not just genetics, but a genuine partnership with the person who will help make their dream come true. It’s a story about love that expands — from a first date on the waterfront to the first cries of a new beginning.
“Waffles, Wanderlust & the Wish for Family” — a real-life love story about trust, chosen family, and the courage to grow something beautiful together.
J & J
Toronto, Ontario
We are J and J — a loving couple from Toronto, Canada, and proud parents to our one-year-old, O, the little boy who changed our world for the better. We are here because our hearts are yearning for more, and we are looking for someone extraordinary to help us grow and complete our family.
What you are considering doing is one of the most profound and generous acts of love that one human being can offer another. We do not take that lightly, and appreciate you very much. Our family that is waiting to welcome this sibling with open arms and overflowing love.
Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, for taking the time to learn more about our story. With so much love and gratitude,
J, J & O
