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Rohan Silva: Rewriting the Rules of Modern Parenthood

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Rohan Silva, founder and chief executive of Second Home & Libreria Bookshop, told VOICES attendees how he and his wife, Katie Silva, spent years navigating infertility before having their first child in 2018. A long effort to have a second baby ended in heartbreak in 2022, when their daughter Zola, born at 31 weeks, died shortly after birth. When they tried again in 2024 through a surrogate, they ended up with two children: one carried by the surrogate they had enlisted, and another by Katie, who unexpectedly became pregnant soon after.

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