My Miracle Experience
I had about a 2 year journey with Miracle which overall was excellent. I want to specifically call out my coordinator team of Alejandro, who onboarded me and got me through embryos and Juan Carlos, who saw me the rest of the way. I felt held, supported, and taken care of by them. The coordination for sperm donation and Miracle’s desire to make it right after an egg donor backed out was recognized, and I was grateful for it. The payment scheme was fairly straightforward, though it would have been nice if invoicing could all be paid by credit card as opposed to wires. I also, at times, felt a bit more like a customer than an intended parent. I didn’t love the pushes for reviews and permissions to repost on social media. I was asked to review my overall experience the day of my children’s’ birth while waiting for news…not the time.
Perhaps my biggest struggle was the communication pathway: email. It was extremely impersonal and lagged in time too much. I especially did not care for all of our emails being one long thread making it impossible to find important attachments and content. I would suggest using the MS teams platform or something similar to help better organize the experience for Miracle and IPs. I also would have loved a much clearer escalation process. Once or twice I did feel the need to escalate, and I should not have had to go through my coordinator to do so. Even towards the end there were some real time developments going on, and I would find out about them 3-4 hours earlier from my surrogate’s coordinator before I heard from my team at Miracle, which I did find to be unacceptable when dealing with such huge things.
Another aspect I would ask Miracle to
consider is the gift of 90% of the paperwork for citizenship (which comes from them anyhow) being presented to the IPs upon arrival in Mexico. I was a bit flabbergasted that I had to sort through emails and ask for copies of, for example, invoices only to be told “oh we don’t have those.” If they already sent them once and provided things like clinic notes and contracts, why not just put it all in a binder and ask the IPs to bring the rest to add. How nice would that be? I did, however, appreciate Selene sitting down with me to go through my binder before my Consulate appointment.
Overall, I would wholeheartedly endorse anyone I know using Miracle, but I would need to be honest with them about what the struggles might be. I would encourage Miracle to push themselves to modernize and standardize further. I also would remind them that though they are a business, the IPs shouldn’t feel that during a highly emotional and stressful time in their lives. I thank them for aiding me in making and securing the greatest gifts, and I know they will only get better and make others’ dreams come true in the future.








