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Family Fronds

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Family Fronds is the podcast for independent surrogacy and egg donation. We bring honest conversations to intended parents, surrogates, egg donors, and the professionals who support them all. Produced by Pineapple Family, the platform helping families navigate independent journeys without traditional agency fees, Family Fronds covers the real side of surrogacy and IVF: the costs, the decisions, the challenges, and the things no one tells you until you're already in it. Each episode, we welcome a new "frond of the family" to the table. Reproductive attorneys, fertility specialists, experienced...

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The Cost of Falling Into the "Good Surrogate" Trap 12.06.2026 45:03

Surrogacy contracts are negotiated long before anyone knows how the story will unfold. Before the pregnancy. Before the delivery. Before anyone knows what support might be needed later on, down the line. And for many first-time surrogates, the hardest questions aren't the ones they ask. They're the ones they never knew to ask in the first place. The conversation covers Amanda Jones' experience as...

Trailer 20.05.2026 2:11

Family Fronds is the independent surrogacy podcast that tells the truth about independent surrogacy and egg donation journeys — what it costs, what it takes, and what the agency model doesn't want you to know. Real voices. Real experiences. From the people who have lived through it. A Pineapple Family Original.

We Paid $45,000 to Learn the System Was Broken 20.05.2026 22:04

"We Paid $45,000 to Learn the System Was Broken" In 2019, Daniel Malak and Joshua Brost started the surrogacy process the way most people do: they hired an agency and trusted the system. Six years later, they have two kids, a failed match, a $45,000 lesson, and a family-building platform built on what they learned. This is the episode where they tell the full story — joined by their co-founder and...