Melanie Lyn McGuire (nee Slate) was born in 1972 in Ridgewood, NJ. She has lived in New Jersey all her life. Melanie graduated from Middletown High School South in 1990 in the top 5 % of her class as a member of both the National Honor Society and the Spanish National Honor Society. She obtained a baccalaureate degree from Rutgers College, Rutgers University in 1994, with concentrations in statistics and psychology. In pursuit of her dream to help people, Melanie obtained her nursing diploma from the Charles E. Gregory School of Nursing in 1997, graduating second in her class.

As a nursing student, Melanie became interested in the OB/GYN field, specifically, the field of infertility. As a professional nurse coordinator for two of the largest infertility programs on the East Coast, Melanie has functioned as coordinator/recruiter for all different forms of third party reproduction, including ovum donation, and most notably, gestational surrogacy. Melanie’s compassionate yet direct, approach to patient care is still known throughout the gestational surrogacy community, and she has even been termed, “the mother whisperer” by patients. She was and continues to be respected professionally and personally by patients and colleagues around the nation and the world.

Melanie’s greatest love of all continues to be her family, especially her two young sons.