Mark Semple Surrogacy - When planning a surrogacy, the team should think of the birth and how they will navigate the hospital system to support their surrogacy birth. Surrogates will have their own experiences of birth and have ideas of how they envision the birth. Whilst it might seem a long way from planning the surrogacy to planning the birth, surrogates will have imagined the birth long before any pregnancy is achieved. It’s vital to have discussions about the birth before entering into a surrogacy arrangement, as the differences in value systems and understandings about birth can impact on the arrangement itself.