The Amazing Surrogacy Project
Surrogacy Milestones & Celebrations
Surrogacy Milestones and Celebrations When most people have a child, they celebrate milestones like a baby shower, and later the birth, and then [...]
Finding Happiness Beyond Surrogacy
Finding Happiness Beyond Surrogacy Surrogacy can be all-consuming - for the intended parents, and the surrogate family. Relationship-building takes time (particularly if we [...]
Egg Donation Australia
Egg donation in Australia is one of those topics that gets some interest on social media occasionally, and a warm fuzzy headline now [...]
Sperm Donor or Dad – the case of Masson and Parsons
Sperm Donor or Dad? If you are a single woman or in a same sex couple considering growing your family through sperm donation, [...]
Joe Donor and the Consequences of Online Conception
Sperm donation options in Australia vary from friends and family, to online connections or clinic-recruited donors. If you watched 60 Minutes in 2019, you'd [...]
Egg Donation: Seeing Yourself In Someone Else’s Child
I became an egg donor after having my own children. My partner and I are parents-through-IVF; survivors of infertility who inevitably became overbearing [...]
Donor Conception and the End of Anonymity
I recently attended the Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority (VARTA)’s twilight seminar The Genie is out of the bottle: DNA testing and the [...]
Feminism and Surrogacy
Feminism and surrogacy. A core belief of any feminist, is that a woman has the right to full bodily autonomy. That includes reproductive [...]
Making a Baby After Death: Posthumous Use of Gametes
Making a Baby After Death: Posthumous Use of Gametes Posthumous is strange word that means 'after death.' Posthumous use of gametes refers to [...]
Hi! I’m Sarah Jefford (she/her). I’m a family creation lawyer, practising in surrogacy and donor conception arrangements. I’m an IVF mum, an egg donor and a traditional surrogate, and I delivered a baby for two dads in 2018
I advocate for positive, best practice surrogacy arrangements within Australia, and provide support and education to help intended parents make informed decisions when pursuing overseas surrogacy.
