Our Journey - TwoDads U.K - Surrogacy Support in UK

Our Journey

Our journey is our story of how he and I became we, And how we became us.

Our Wedding Story

Check out our Wedding back in 2014, the year marriage equality was introduced in the UK. We got married at the beautiful Walcot Hall in Shropshire.

Our Journey

  • We’re going down under! The Modern Family Show launches in Sydney

    April 2023

  • The Modern Family Show heads to San Francisco

    March 2023

  • Began supporting Manchester Fertility with a variety of products and services

    November 2022

  • Began working with The Lister Fertility Clinic in London

    July 2022

  • Launches The Surrogacy Network; the UK’s only national networking group for surrogacy professionals.

    April 2022

  • Began supporting GENNET City Fertility in London

    March 2022

  • Launches the number one surrogacy podcast. My Surrogacy Journey – The Podcast

    May 2021

  • TwoDads UK launch My Surrogacy Journey, the latest ‘not for profit’ Surrogacy Agency with unrivalled member benefits and services, utilising the latest fertility tech and one of the industry’s most established Advisory Boards

    December 2020

  • Began supporting The Agora Fertility Clinic in Brighton

    October 2020

  • TwoDads UK and IVF Babble join forces to create IVF Babble LGBT; an online fertility and parenting resource

    September 2020

  • TwoDads UK appear in the Channel 4 Surrogacy documentary ft. Hannah and Jake Graf

    August 2020

  • TwoDads UK form an alliance with LabelPR to manage any brand collaborations linked to Social Media (Parenting and LGBTQ)

    July 2020

  • TwoDads UK cast in the Cow & Gate #LoveDon’tJudge national campaign as the lead family in the entire campaign

    July 2020

  • TwoDads UK partner with Wessex Fertility to act as their Surrogacy marketing and support partner

    May 2020

  • TwoDads launch its COVID-19 Support Sessions with global Fertility experts, resulting in 20 episodes running for 7 weeks, of innovative content viewed by over 200k people

    April 2020

  • TwoDads UK Partner with Herts and Essex Fertility Centre to act as their Surrogacy marketing and support partner

    April 2020

  • TwoDads UK establish The Modern Family Show, the only UK LGBTQ Family Building event taking place 20th March 2021

    January 2020

  • Law Commissioners Consultation closes; TwoDads UK get asked to support and attend the national presentations and appear on their parent panel

    October 2019

  • Michael wins Surrogacy Professional of the Year in the National Surrogacy Awards

    September 2019

  • 19th Duke born at 0916 weighing 7lb 4.5oz

    August 2019

  • TwoDads launch their Clinic Partnership programme and partner with CRGH to develop their Surrogacy programme in London, supporting gay Intended Parents on a journey to fatherhood

    July 2019

  • Michael and Wes appear on the cover of Fertility Road Magazine, the first UK gay parents to feature on the cover of a fertility magazine

    June 2019

  • TwoDads UK appear at Fertility Fest 2019 at The Barbican and perform as part of The Queer Family event

    May 2019

  • Your Route to Fatherhood – first TwoDads London event takes place, selling out

    April 2019

  • Positive pregnancy result on the 31st December 2018

    December 2018

  • 10 Eggs retrieved, 7 Fertilised, one Frozen Embryo transferred on the 18th December and the rest frozen and stored at CRGH

    December 2018

  • a friend offers her eggs, and we explore ‘known donation’ and change Fertility Clinics to CRGH in London.

    November 2018

  • Invited by the APPG (All Party Parliamentary Group) for the Surrogacy Law Reform to attend a steering committee in The Houses of Parliament

    October 2018

  • Failed Embryo transfer, and all other embryos fail. Resulting in a complete failed cycle. Devasting news

    June 2018

  • 8 Eggs retrieved, 6 fertilised and one embryo transferred.

    June 2018

  • Appear in the Audi #FutureFamilies online campaign

    May 2018

  • Donor matched

    April 2018

  • Government Guidance is issued ‘Care in Surrogacy’ foir Healthcare Professionals which TwoDads UK contributed to by sharing our ‘Lived Experience’ as Two Dads via UK Surrogacy

    February 2018

  • Begin fertility treatment and the search for another donor (due to unforeseen complications with our last donor) for our second child together, this time matching Michael’s characteristics to the donor.

    January 2018

  • Appear in the Sainsburys ‘Every Bit of Christmas’ commercial. 3 Seconds of fame!

    December 2017

  • Michael and Wes appear in the E4 and Channel 4 Documentary with Kieron Richardson, titled Raised by Queers / Gay Dads Forever

    May 2017

  • TwoDads Blog is born

    March 2017

  • TwoDads UK Social Channels established

    January 2017

  • Talulah is born, weighing 8lb, born at 0600 on the 16th October 2016

    October 2016

  • Positive pregnancy test 14 days later

    February 2016

  • 5 Eggs retrieved and 3 fertilised and one fresh embryo transferred on the 13th February, the remainder frozen

    February 2016

  • Matched to an Egg Donor, with our criteria

    October 2015

  • Select a UK Clinic and have our initial appointment (Care Fertility Manchester)

    June 2015

  • First meet the woman who would transform our lives (our Surrogate)

    February 2015

  • Decide on UK Surrogacy (Independent Gestational route)

    December 2014

  • Married in Shropshire, UK.

    August 2014

  • Moved to London

    September 2013

  • Engaged (Mike asked Wes!)

    November 2012

  • Moved in together in Birmingham

    October 2012

  • Met at Birmingham Pride

    June 2012