The Ultimate Guide to Surrogacy and Home Insemination

The Ultimate Guide to Surrogacy and Home Insemination provides clear and detailed advice on all aspects of overcoming infertility using surrogacy. It answers the questions that anyone considering surrogacy should ask first, and warns of the dangers and pitfalls of proceeding without appropriate support and guidance. The Guide describes all of the scientific and legal processes involved in surrogacy, and looks at the financial costs and how to minimise these through the careful selection of clinics and legal firms. It also looks at the emotional issues, and advises on how to protect the welfare of all concerned including, centrally, the resulting child or children.

About the Author: Barrie Drewitt-Barlow is a clinical social worker and the founder of the British Surrogacy Centre. He has been involved in surrogacy since 1996, when he travelled to Beverly Hills for a meeting with an agency there to talk about having children with his partner, Tony. Since that first meeting, Barrie and Tony have gone on to have five children through surrogacy. They were the first same-sex couple in England to use a Surrogate Mother, and were also the first to be recognised on the birth certificate of their children as Parent 1 and Parent 2.

Barrie has become the UK's leading expert on the positive steps that can be taken through surrogacy for people going through infertility issues, regardless of age or sexuality, and has appeared on countless media shows. In 2011, he was a nominee for the Campaigner of the Year at the European Diversity Awards. Barrie has helped dozens of couples and singles to have children of their own through surrogacy, and has provided advice and recommendations to numerous others. The Ultimate Guide to Surrogacy and Home Inseminations draws on all of his experiences, professional and personal, and is essential reading for anyone wishing to explore their fertility options.