This just seemed to be the perfect day to share this article from Celebrity Baby Scoop

Not everyone can conceive a baby, which makes the option of surrogacy so rewarding.

We’re taking a look at 13 celebrities who have used surrogate mother to expand their families. From Ellen Pompeo, to Jimmy Fallon, to Giuliana Rancic, to Sarah Jessica Parker, let’s hear how gestational carriers have helped change the lives of some high-profile families.

Ellen Pompeo

Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo is the latest celebrity to welcome a child via gestational carrier.

In a surprising announcement last week, the actress, 44, revealed the arrival of her second child – daughter Sienna May – via surrogate with husband Chris Ivery.

“Sienna May Ivery welcome to the world,” Pompeo wrote on Instagram Thursday, October 2. “We love you more than words can say.”

The new mom-of-two and Ivery, 46, kept their impending baby joy completely under wraps.

The actress took to Twitter to announce that Sienna was born by a surrogate mother.

“Sienna was born via surrogate & I would like to thank my whole @ShondalandTV family for helping us enjoy these first few weeks privately,” she tweeted.

Later revealing that Sienna was “born two months ago,” Ellen went on to talk about the miracle of using a gestational carrier.

“This is an incredible thing to do with your life, to give the gift of carrying someone’s child, so I am forever grateful and feel very blessed and grateful to her—she who will remain anonymous,” Pompeo said. “I was there with her when they inseminated her and we held hands.

I looked into the microscope and I saw the embryo, I saw the baby, and they put it in a thingy and they inseminated her. And then we held hands and we prayed, we talked to God, and if she was meant to be. He said he was going to try to help us out and now we have a gorgeous baby girl.”

Nate Berkus

Hot dads-to-be Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent recently shared their exciting news.

Berkus, 43, and Brent, 29, are expecting a baby, they announced last month.

“Wanted to share some exciting news….We have had the most special year and its JUST become even more beautiful,” Berkus wrote. “We are happy to announce that we are expecting our first child! While we can’t share much, we can say that thanks to a surrogate and the support of those we love we will officially be a family in the spring of 2015!”

The American Dream Builders host and Rachel Zoe’s former assistant were wed in May at the New York Public Library.

Ryan Murphy

Glee and American Horror Story creator, Ryan Murphy, and his photographer husband, David Miller, welcomed their first child – son Logan Phineas – on Christmas Day 2013 via gestational carrier.

The couple recently welcomed their second son, Ford, on Friday, October 3. No word if baby Ford was also born by a surrogate mother.

He came home today — I’m so excited!” the proud papa gushed at the recent Hollywood premiere of American Horror Story: Freak Show.

“It’s so emotional,” he added. “I’m always so stunned how emotional it is. As a gay guy, growing up I never thought I’d have a family. So the fact that I have two children … that I’m married … it’s very overwhelming for me.”

Jimmy Fallon

The Tonight Show star Jimmy Fallon and his wife Nancy Juvonen welcomed their first child – daughter Winnie – via gestational carrier.

“My wife and I had been trying a while to have a baby,” the new dad revealed. “We tried a bunch of things — so we had a surrogate.”

He added: “We said, ‘We’re not going to tell anybody.’ It’d be just more fun if it’s just private between me and my wife. And then we get to introduce her to everybody. When it happened we were in shock. We were like, ‘Alright, who do we tell? Who’s going to be mad at us if this gets out,’” he shared. “We had to call everybody and it’s so emotional!”

Elton John

Sir Elton John and David Furnish welcomed their second son Elijah on January 11, 2013. The doting daddies used the same surrogate mother for their older son Zachary.

“She is a wonderful, kind and loving woman,” Elton said of their surrogate, who thinks of her as “part of our family.”

The couple used the same egg donor for both boys and have chosen not to find out either of their son’s paternity.

Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban welcomed their daughter Sunday on July 8, 2008. But after a “roller-coaster ride with fertility,” the couple used a gestational carrier for their second child, now 3-year-old daughter Faith.

“Having given birth and then being there to see my child born in that way, I felt so much love for our surrogate, gestational carrier,” Nicole said.

The Academy Award-winner went on to discuss why she uses the term “gestational carrier” as opposed to “surrogate” – something she was criticized for in the days following the announcement of Faith’s birth.

“We were trying to be accurate,” she shared. “The term ‘gestational carrier is used if it’s your biological child and if it isn’t, then you use ‘surrogate.’ I mean, who knows what it is. But she’s the most wonderful woman to do this for us.”

Elizabeth Banks

What to Expect When You’re Expecting actress Elizabeth Banks and husband Max Handelman have welcomed both sons – Felix, 3, and Magnus, nearly 2 – via surrogate mother.

“Like Felix, Magnus was born via gestational surrogate,” she shared. “This experience has exceeded all expectations, taught us a great deal about generosity and gratitude, and established a relationship that will last a lifetime. I am also so very thankful to our family and friends for their support throughout this process, as well as the Center for Surrogate Parenting for helping make all this possible.”

“It was a womb issue for me. Embryos wouldn’t implant,” she said of her fertility issues. “It’s a big leap, inviting this person into your life to do this amazing, important thing for you. And it’s hard losing that kind of control. But our surrogate is so extraordinary, and she’s still in our lives. She’s like an auntie.”

Neil Patrick Harris

How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris and partner David Burtka are dads to 4-year-old twins Harper and Gideon. The Doogie Houser alum opened up about welcoming the twins via surrogate mother.

“We really, really wanted kids,” NPH said. “We really had thought it through financially, emotionally, relationship-wise. We didn’t just accidentally get pregnant and decide that now we need to make this work. These kids come into our world with nothing but love.”

The handsome couple talked about the science behind the birth of the fraternal twins, revealing each father fertilized one egg and the twins were carried and born via one surrogate.

Burtka explained that the twins were conceived by “two eggs, two embryos, one of mine, one of his.”

The couple knew the surrogate, whom Burtka described as “more like the oven.” And they found an anonymous egg donor through a donation bank where they were able to research her personal and medical history.

Ricky Martin

Ricky Martin welcomed his twin sons, Valentino and Matteo, via surrogate in August 2008.

The Livin’ La Vida Loca singer recalled his path to fatherhood, saying that he first felt the urge to start a family many years ago.

“OK, what are my options? Am I going to adopt? I just sat in front of the computer, doing research, until I found surrogacy, and I was like: ‘Woah! This looks really interesting,’” the sexy singer said. “I interviewed so many people that were part of this beautiful world, and I decided this was going to be my way.”

And what about more kids in the future? Saying that he’d love to have “a daddy’s girl,” Ricky said he plans to go the surrogacy route again soon. “I’ll be steady in New York, and then, after I do the play

Chris Daughtry

American Idol star Chris Daughtry and wife Deanna welcomed fraternal twins Noah and Adalynn via gestational carrier in November 2010. The couple used a surrogate to carry their twins due to Deanna’s partial hysterectomy.

“Our family is overwhelmed with joy by these two precious gifts from God,” the Grammy-nominated singer said. “The babies are both healthy and resting. Thanks to everyone for their love and prayers.”

The twins joined the couple’s teen children, Hannah and Griffin.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick welcomed son James Wilkie in October 2002. But the couple struggled to conceive again.

“[We] tried and tried and tried and tried and tried to get pregnant, but it just was not to be, the conventional way—I would give birth as often as I could, if I could. I cherished all the milestones, the good and the bad,” SJP shared.

The Sex and the City star spoke very highly of their gestational carrier, calling her “strong, bright, independent, thoughtful, caring, gracious and generous.”

She went on to talk about meeting her daughters – now 5-year-old twins Tabitha and Loretta – for the first time in the delivery room.

“Meeting your children rather than giving birth to them, it’s as if, um, it’s—suspended animation. The gestational experience is gone,” she said. “It’s as if everything else disappears for a moment, and the world goes silent and—I can’t explain it except to say that nothing else existed.

I don’t remember anything but the blanket on the bed that they were lying on and my husband’s face and their faces and my son’s. It’s literally as if sound is sucked from the room. Time stands still. It’s so different and equally extraordinary. I am very poor at describing it. But it’s amazing.”

Michelle Stafford

Emmy Award-winning The Young & the Restless star Michelle Stafford is mom to daughter Natalia thanks to a surrogate mother.

“After a three-year journey through hell, I’m elated, ecstatic and feel ultimately lucky to be able to announce I’m expecting my own child via surrogate in December,” Michelle shared before Natalia’s arrival in December 2009.

After unsuccessful attempts to conceive with several failed surgeries for egg retrieval, artificial insemination and invitro fertilization, the star said the process of trying to become pregnant was “the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life.”

Giuliana Rancic

After a long road to parenthood, Bill and Giuliana Rancic welcomed son Duke in August 2012 via gestational carrier.

The proud new mom gushed to Celebrity Baby Scoop about the experience.

“We had an amazing gestational carrier that we cannot thank enough for all that she has done for our family,” Giuliana said.

After Giuliana’s battle with breast cancer and subsequent double mastectomy, her chances of carrying a child has been delayed.

“We’d have to go down the surrogacy path again,” she said. “Thankfully, before I went on my medication, we did another round of [in vitro fertilization], so we have embryos ready to go.”

After such a positive experience with their son‘s gestational carrier, Delphine, they chose her again, but the pregnancy did not last.

“Unfortunately our surrogate Delphine, who we love very much, had a miscarriage,” Giuliana said earlier this year. “It’s something that we didn’t see coming. We were devastated. She was about nine weeks pregnant. We were pretty close to getting into the safe zone.”

Marissa Jaret Winokur

Broadway actress of the famed musical Hairspray, Marissa Jaret Winokur underwent a hysterectomy at the age of 27 after being diagnosed with cervical cancer. Surrogacy was her “last chance” to become a mother and she has spoken on the decision to use a gestational carrier.

“For people out there who don’t understand surrogacy, it’s very important that they understand it’s not about someone in Hollywood who doesn’t want to gain weight. It’s not like Sarah Jessica Parker didn’t want to have her own baby,” she said. “For everybody that has a surrogate, that was their last chance. That was their last option – that was their only option.

It’s the most amazing, wonderful thing, but it’s also a really hard decision to make because you’re trusting the most important thing to somebody. For me, that was the only way I was going to have a baby, so I was like ‘I’m in, let’s go.’ There was no looking back. But for a lot of women, there are lots of different options, so it’s important to figure out what’s the best option for them.”

Mom to 6-year-old son Zev with husband Judah Miller, Marissa said they hope for another baby one day soon.

“We keep trying! We’ve tried a few times now but it’s not working as easily as we thought it was going to,” she opened up to Celebrity Baby Scoop in October 2011.

“We’ve been working with another surrogate and it just hasn’t been going easy,” she added. “But we’re not giving up yet. It’s a weird thing — now I’m even more grateful for Zev! I always knew it was such a miracle to have a child through surrogacy. It’s such a complex, mad-science thing. But when you have a child, you’re like, ‘See, it works and it’s all meant to be,’ and you forget about all the trauma and all the problems that led up to it. But now we’re going through it again and I’m thinking to myself, ‘Oh my gosh, we were really lucky!’