When the Rev. Dr. Joel Muñoz was growing up in his native Indiana, he frequently visited his relatives for holidays in Colotlan, Jalisco.
As an undergraduate at Purdue University, he was an exchange student at the Tec de Monterrey university campus in Cuernavaca. He and his husband, Indiana native Kyle Fultz, Ph.D., have vacationed a bit in Cancun, Cabo San Lucas and Puerto Vallarta.
But when Muñoz and Fultz decided to to start a family using the services of Cares Surrogacy, an inclusive agency in Puerto Vallarta, their holidays in Mexico morphed into medical appointments and ultrasounds with their surrogate.
“We got to know our surrogate very well,” said Muñoz, by way of in-person and video appointments. “That way she could see our active role in all of this. She wanted to help someone have a family.”
Finally, in early 2025, as the scheduled birth date came nearer, Muñoz came to Guadalajara, followed a few weeks later by Fultz—whose arrival was rushed, since the twin babies arrived March 19 at 33 weeks, a bit earlier than planned, necessitating they spend 37 days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Hospital San Javier in Guadalajara. Baby Selena was born at 1.9 kilos (4 lbs, 2 oz) and Fabian at 1.8 kilos (4 lbs).
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