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Baby Bake Off is a brutally honest, darkly funny memoir about what happens when grief collides with the desperate desire to create life. When Lukas' father died, something shifted. He and Greg had never planned on having kids, but mortality has a way of changing your perspective. As gay men in Australia, surrogacy was their best path to biological parenthood, but they had no idea what they were signing up for.
What followed was five years of navigating Australia's altruistic surrogacy system, where you can't pay surrogates and finding someone willing to carry your child becomes an exercise in vulnerability, hope, and sheer persistence. Baby Bake Off documents the medical procedures, the emotional toll, the relationships tested under impossible pressure, and the final trimester under COVID-19 lockdowns. But more than that, it's about what drives people to extraordinary acts of love, both in creating family and in helping others create theirs.
Baby Bake Off is a brutally honest, darkly funny memoir about what happens when grief collides with the desperate desire to create life. When Lukas' father died, something shifted. He and Greg had never planned on having kids, but mortality has a way of changing your perspective. As gay men in Australia, surrogacy was their best path to biological parenthood, but they had no idea what they were signing up for.
What followed was five years of navigating Australia's altruistic surrogacy system, where you can't pay surrogates and finding someone willing to carry your child becomes an exercise in vulnerability, hope, and sheer persistence. Baby Bake Off documents the medical procedures, the emotional toll, the relationships tested under impossible pressure, and the final trimester under COVID-19 lockdowns. But more than that, it's about what drives people to extraordinary acts of love, both in creating family and in helping others create theirs.