WELCOME To 2DADs

Hi, we're Sven and James.  We’re a gay couple living in Sydney, Australia. We've been together for 15 years and are both originally from South Africa. It’s been our lifelong dream to be parents and have a family of our own.  Finding our path to becoming parents wasn’t easy. I’m mean, where do you start!?!  

Very few people have done it and the local laws (in Australia and New Zealand) are confusing and complicated making you feel it is risky having children through surrogacy locally.  Some gay couples have been fortunate to receive support from friends and family who choose to be part of their journey and offer to be their surrogate. We didn’t have these options - it’s not because we don’t have great friends – just saying! So, we chose international surrogacy.

As we started our journey, exploring the options, at the outset, it feels like there is very little information out there for gay men to have children.  It was daunting for us and felt as if it is still seen as new and unusual (our experience) thing to do. We were inspired by the few couples openly sharing their journey online, which was invaluable and helpful in showing us that we could achieve our dream of having a family and wanted to share our experiences.

We seem to find more in the way for gay women, but for men, it still feels new. 

When talking to friends and family, we noticed that many people have opinions and it can feel like a real uphill push with respect to all aspects of the journey.

Having started our journey, I'm starting to understand more and more what gay couples go through in order to achieve their dream, how much they wanted a family and what it takes to reach that awesome goal. 

After 3 years of exploring options, meeting agencies, interviews, medical checks, finding donors, surrogates and getting our team together to help make our dream a reality… we fell pregnant on our first transfer in late 2019. We couldn’t believe how lucky we were! Even though we were advised  not to get ahead of ourselves, we did! In our excitement we told friends and finally and sadly, that was not meant to be, and we had a miscarriage.  We continue our journey... 

 We decided to start “2Dads” who by the nature of its name makes you feel at home as a” 2-dad family”.  

Through our  journey we realised there are no brands out there making gay dads normal. Our motivation is to share and support gay dads, intended gay parents and their families by sharing our story and creating products we feel celebrates having children - making us feel ‘We Belong'. 

It’s just the two of us behind the brand, while we also hold down full time jobs. We're keeping it real and hope our story and the products we create,  inspire  people to support gay dads and intended parents.