Telling Children - Surrogacy

Surrogacy - How to Tell Children & Siblings

A Baby For Mabel and Frederick Coloring Book

While there are many good books about adoption and adoption is widely accepted in today's society, there are only a select few good books on reproductive assistance. We hope through an In Vitro Fertilization story, IVF will someday be as accepted as widely as adoption. Hopefully children will feel they belong and are not the "different" child at school or in other environments. We hope these books will be read by children in all types of families to show that everyone belongs in their family.

This surrogacy story addresses the feelings of the children of the surrogate mom. A Baby for Mabel and Frederick can help when telling children about surrogacy. The children of the surrogate mom will understand why their mommy is pregnant, but the baby will not be their sibling.

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Telling Children about Surrogacy:
A Baby For Mabel and Frederick by Karen Poston
20 pages, Softcover

The book A Baby for Mabel and Frederick can also be used to help explain what a "surrogate mother" is to her own children. This book telling childern about surrogacy could be used to explain to the non-surrogate mom's children, why they will have a new sibling but their mommy is not pregnant.

Because this surrogacy story is a coloring book and coloring it with children involved takes time, there is a nice relaxed unpressured atmosphere for discussions and telling children about surrogacy.

Description:
"In A Baby for Mabel and Frederick, Emma's mom is a surrogate - she's carrying a baby for a couple who can't have their own children. Emma is very excited and proud that she and her mom are helping to make a new family. This helps children understand in simple terms what goes on during a gestational surrogacy."

From the back cover of this book telling children about surrogacy:
"Emma learns about the good things and not so good things about beging a surrogate. She's very excited, and very proud that she's helping to create a new family. The real Emma lives with her mom and dad in Maryland. Her mom really is a surrogate."

Written by Karen Poston, a surrogate mom herself, the author has first hand knowledge of what young children need to understand the concept of In Vitro Fertilization and Surrogacy. The child in the story, Emma, is excited about the new baby and explains that it is not part of her family. No graphic images and no detailed text of eggs and sperm makes it a nice read for those not ready to get into that amount of detail. It does explain that "special cells" are taken from a man and a woman and there is a picture of a circle with 6 cells cells "growing" to make an "embryo". Shots are mentioned and the child's feelings are addressed nicely. The pictures are fairly simple which is good for younger children. This is a nice way for surrogate mothers to explain to their own children - what it means to be a surrogate mom.

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