Born Out of Love: Two Filipinos Dads, an Egg Donor, a Surrogate, a NICU Baby & a $200,000 Commitment

Delivery Diaries: The Podcast

Creating a family doesn’t look a certain way. Which is why in today’s episode we have Mark and Jeff Angeles share their unique journey of creating their family especially being in a same sex marriage.
Mark is an HIR Director and Jeff is a doctor, board certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, and Hospice & Palliative Medicine. They spent over $160,000 in making their family, in other words, creating their daughter, Margo.
Their story is with filled endless possibilities, pride of their humble Filipino upbringing, resources around surrogacy and even how to navigate the legalities that same-sex couples have to face when making a baby.
They provide so much detail and share why they want to inspire others or at least people who are in this journey of family making and know you can ‘experience the ups and downs of being a parent and all the good things it brings into you life’.
PS: We had some first-time-podcast growing pains, in other words technical glitches. However, by the power of storytelling, we improvised at the end of the episode so you get to be apart of the authenticity with some laughs, teary eyes and dropped calls.
Check out their Good Morning America segment and article on how they created their family by getting into debt safely and some tips they share:
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/video/debt-safely-76807599
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/story/couple-100000-loan-start-family-shares-planned-debt-76803398

They are also featured in Business Insider where they share how money was never really talked about in their Filipino upbringing but as a couple they were able to create a new and empowering conversion around money to create their dream family:

https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/gay-couple-ivf-loan-conversation-2022-6
Same-sex couple and surrogacy resources that Mark & Jeff provided in the episode.
https://www.sofi.com/
https://menhavingbabies.com/
https://www.samelovesurrogacy.com/
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