What’s With The Birds?
You may have noticed this image of a little bird throughout the website:
It’s a puffin!
Brownstone adopted the puffin as its mascot not just because it’s cute, but because it’s a symbol of what we’re working to achieve here:
- Puffins live a long time and use their pre-breeding years to learn about feeding places, choose a mate, and identify a nest site.
- Surrogacy takes a lot of planning and our parents and surrogates are committed to the lengthy process.
- Puffins dig nesting burrows in the soil and defend their burrow fiercely. Puffin parents share equally the duties of sitting on the egg and rearing the puffin chick (called a puffling!).
- Our parents have put a lot of time, effort, and emotional energy into having their baby and our surrogates help care for and protect the baby in utero.
- When a puffling is growing up, they go through a process called imprinting and learn to identify and remember a specific place or animal.
- Our Brownstone babies form incredibly strong attachments with their parents, who have moved heaven and earth to bring them into being.
Brownstone Surrogacy is licensed as a surrogacy matching program by the New York State Department of Health. Our license number is GS221023. We are proud to be among the few agencies licensed by a governmental regulator.
“Gestation is a marvel, no matter how it is accomplished. But gestation isn’t the real magic. Love is the magic. Love is the only magic.” – Early: An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What It Teaches Us About Being Human by Sarah DiGregorio