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We Stopped Expecting Good News—Then It Happened
A story I was trusted with. Not mine to claim—mine to carry forward.
IVF Daddies
January 05, 2026
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Stories • 3 January 2026 • 5 min read We Stopped Expecting Good News—Then It Happened A story I was trusted with. Not mine to claim—mine to carry forward. By Julio Gaggia |
Why this matters Family-building through surrogacy often means restrictive rules, repeated loss, and emotional fatigue. Hope doesn’t always arrive loudly. Sometimes it shows up quietly—without fireworks. |
Executive snapshot: A family navigated years of restrictions, loss, and waiting—until a Christmas Eve moment changed everything. This story rejects toxic positivity and validates the exhaustion of long fertility journeys. |
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Some stories don’t belong to you — but they change you anyway. When they started telling it, there was no drama in their tone. No need to impress. No attempt to make it inspirational. Just honesty — the kind that only shows up after you’ve been tired for a very long time. |
At some point, people stop hoping—not because they don’t want it, but because hope becomes expensive. |
By the time Christmas Eve arrived, they weren’t expecting anything anymore. Then someone handed them a small gift. Inside was a pregnancy test. Positive. Not fireworks. Not certainty. Just a plus sign that quietly changed the direction of their lives. |
If you’re in the part where nothing is working yet—I won’t give you toxic positivity. Your exhaustion makes sense. And you deserve a process that doesn’t ask you to break yourself to build a family. |
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