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If you’re a guy, you can supply half your baby’s DNA, but you still need someone to supply the other half. This is true whether you’re a single guy alone or if you have a partner who’s also a guy. In either case, your first order of business will be to find someone who can donate an egg to you. Unfortunately, donating eggs isn’t nearly as simple as donating sperm, so finding a friend or someone altruistic enough to donate to you might be difficult. In that case, many fertility clinics have egg-donor programs in which carefully screened women of childbearing age go through the donation process in exchange for a monetary fee.

The legality of this gets tricky from one state to the other, so make sure you know what your state’s regulations on egg donation are before going too far into the process.

If just finding the right egg were all you needed to do, this process wouldn’t be so difficult. But, you also need someone to carry the baby for nine months and give birth to them. You also want to make very sure — as sure as is humanly possible — that the person you choose will want to give your baby to you at the end of nine months. States have regulations on surrogacy as well, but this is the kind of sticky mess you want to do everything in your power to avoid.