The first I want to offer comes from my own experience and my husband's experience as we battled our way through infertility ourselves, and our three daughters are the great blessing of our lives. But because we battled our way through infertility, it made me think about the nature of what it is to be a parent, and I think we can separate parents out in many ways. There is a genetic parent, the person from whom the DNA comes, and then there is the gestational parent, the woman who carries a child and the person—usually a man; sometimes someone else—who supports her, who is also a gestational parent as they support, go through a pregnancy. And then there is a social parent, the parent who raises a child. 