Afleveringen
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Surviving fatherhood: We have made it through the first 9 months after our beautiful daughter Cataleya was born. It has been a very rewarding experience but it has not been easy at all. On this episode we talk about the what it has been like to adjust to our new normal. Returning to work, trying to have a social life and even maintaining a healthy relationship as a couple including our sex life.
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The time we waited for has finally arrived.The moment to welcome our beautiful daughter Cataleya into this world! From her first cry when she was born to saying goodbye to our surrogate once it was time to leave the hospital. The beginning of a new journey and the end of process.
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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How did our parents accept our surrogacy journey and how hard has it been for them to understand it. With religion playing such a big factor, we dive into the conversations we have had with our mothers and other family members. We also address the critics and backlash we have received even from family members.
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If our international surrogacy process has been full of ups and downs, our journey to adopt our foster child has not been any easier. It has been a process full of emotions. We became foster parents when a beautiful girl and his "half" baby brother arrived at our home in 2021. Life had different plans for us and everything has changed ever since. Join us on this episode as we talk about this other side of parenthood why fostering is such an emotional rollercoaster.
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Many believe we do not deserve to be parents because we are two gay men. We have received numerous attacks from people who believe we are going straight to hell. Some say, we are preventing our kids from having and mother. On this episode we get very personal about how we feel with all of these comments. We also explain why we do not want our kids to "turn out" gay like us.
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We are getting more deep into our surrogacy process on this second episode of Daddies on Duty. This conversation is about our ups and downs with our initial surrogates, including how one of them tricked us into sending her extra money. Our journey to fatherhood through international surrogacy came with many unexpected surprises, the biggest one being the transfer of the "wrong" embryo. Also, the answer to the question a lot of people ask, who is the father?
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Welcome to Daddies on Duty. During this first episode we begin our candid conversations about how we initiated our journey to parenthood and why we decided to share what we have been through so far and what we will continue to experience as we raise our children. You will hear from the very first seconds, there are no scripts here. These are real conversations between my husband, Erick Martinez, and I (Eliecer Marte). Just like we do every night when we are sitting on this same couch where we are recording our podcast.
One of us wanted to have kids, the other one wasn't really feeling the idea. Society thinks we can't form a family because we are two gay men. And are you ready for something spicy? did we think of each other when it was time to give out our sperm? it is time to find out! Welcome to the happy room. Enjoy!
