Imagine having to adopt your own baby :

“When Tanis Mauws and Sean Lancaster brought their bubbly baby boy Keelan home, all they wanted was to experience the joys of being new parents.

But Manitoba laws meant that Keelan wasn’t legally considered their baby.

“[At] one Heartland [fertility clinic] appointment they told us we’d have to adopt our baby,” Mauws said.”

“‘We have to prove he is ours’: Manitoba laws give rights to surrogate rather than biological parents”