How to Parent and Still Maintain Your Self-Being

How to Parent and Still Maintain Your Self-Being

Bryan Ruiz January 16, 2020 0 Comments

It comes as no surprise, when you become a parent, your world changes instantly. Everything you thought was important changes when you first hear the cry and/or sounds of you new bundle of joy. When our baby was born, I took the role of primary parent. There's no rules with gay parents, but I worked at Google so I was given leave of 3 months + some vacation time. My husband could not take that...

My First Week Alone with My Baby! My Top 6 Learnings as a Gay Parent

Bryan Ruiz January 14, 2020 0 Comments

When our baby was born, we spent her first 6 weeks in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where my parents live. It was such a gift to have so many people help us with her. Whether it was feeding, bathing, burping or changing her or helping to make bottles, do laundry and cradle her to sleep. After 6 weeks, we came back home to New Jersey and my partner had to travel for work for 2 weeks. Talk about ripping...

“So cute! Where’s her mom?”

Bryan Ruiz December 4, 2019 0 Comments

While the world has evolved from the traditional "mother and father" family, we still have a lot of work to do for gay parents. Adam and I gave birth to our baby girl in late November 2019 through surrogacy. We had an amazing experience working with Circle Surrogacy through the whole process. Through egg donor selection and retrieval, surrogate selections, 9-months, etc, we managed to have a...

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