It’s surrogacy day at the BBC.

A couple said they decided to document their journey to have a child via a surrogate after feeling there was “no information” available about the process.

Kevin Pittuck-Bennett, 46, and his husband Michael, 38, from Chelmsford, had their two-month-old daughter, Peggy, in 2024 via surrogacy, which is when a woman carries a pregnancy for another couple or individual.

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Sarah Jones, the chief executive officer at Surrogacy UK, said: “The UK surrogacy community in the UK is really unique in the fact that we operate altruistically, so nobody is allowed to make profit, nobody is allowed to financially profit from surrogacy in the UK.”

It’s interesting how all the altruism is from women. Men can’t be surrogates either altruistically or commercially.

Helen Gibson, the founder of the campaign group, Surrogacy Concern, said: “We don’t support surrogacy for anyone, we understand that a lot of people want to have a genetic child of their own, but it is very exploitative for women.

“No-one looks at it from the perspective of the child” who needs their biological mother when they are first born, she said. “Fostering, adoption and co-parenting are all options before surrogacy.”

That is, instead of surrogacy.

H/t Freeminder