Friendship as Foundation for Surrogate Pregnancy
Cover Story in G Health Section in Boston Globe, July 30, 2012
There is one voice, other than his parents’, that makes 10-month-old Brady Zoll’s eyes grow wide.
“Hi big boy,” coos Diane Kieras-Ciolkos. “Do your teeth hurt?” She holds the fussy baby while his mother, Meghan Hukowicz, looks for Tylenol.
It’s not surprising that Brady is comforted by Kieras-Ciolkos’s voice. After all, he heard it for nine months, from deep inside her belly, up until the moment Kieras-Ciolkos handed him over to her best friend, who would raise him.
Kieras-Ciolkos, a tall and gregarious 41-year-old, was Brady’s gestational carrier; Hukowicz, 36, blond and petite, is his biological mother. A surrogate pregnancy between friends is unusual in the world of reproductive technology, but for these women, it’s a natural extension of the bond they have shared since childhood, when they built forts and played kickball together in the farmlands of Hadley.
Back then, Huckawicz was not a healthy child. She was diagnosed at 5 weeks old with Cystic Fibrosis….
[cover story in G health section in Boston Globe, July 30, 2012]
by Karen D. Brown, Globe Correspondent JULY 30, 2012
There is one voice, other than his parents’, that makes 10-month-old Brady Zoll’s eyes grow wide.
“Hi big boy,” coos Diane Kieras-Ciolkos. “Do your teeth hurt?” She holds the fussy baby while his mother, Meghan Hukowicz, looks for Tylenol.
It’s not surprising that Brady is comforted by Kieras-Ciolkos’s voice. After all, he heard it for nine months, from deep inside her belly, up until the moment Kieras-Ciolkos handed him over to her best friend, who would raise him.
Kieras-Ciolkos, a tall and gregarious 41-year-old, was Brady’s gestational carrier; Hukowicz, 36, blond and petite, is his biological mother. A surrogate pregnancy between friends is unusual in the world of reproductive technology, but for these women, it’s a natural extension of the bond they have shared since childhood, when they built forts and played kickball together in the farmlands of Hadley.
Back then, Huckawicz was not a healthy child. She was diagnosed at 5 weeks old with Cystic Fibrosis….
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