Karen & Vince attended their first Growing Families event in 2019 after years of unsuccessful IVF. They ultimately chose to engage in egg donor surrogacy with ReproArt in Georgia. Growing Families organised for Vince’s sperm to be shipped to Georgia in 2021, during Covid. Embryos were created and the couple’s first transfer worked. Their son was born five weeks early on 22 Dec 2022. The couple raced to Georgia to be with him. Karen will discuss the process, what they learned along the way and what were the hurdles