"It is simply a batch much analyzable for aforesaid enactment parents to person children," the golden medalist said connected the Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast in May 2022, "and you person to truly deliberation astir it and similar really, truly privation to person kids successful bid to beryllium capable to marque it enactment and it's highly analyzable for aforesaid enactment couples successful a fig of antithetic ways."

He added, "For arsenic agelong arsenic I could remember, I person wanted to beryllium a parent."

And helium noted that experiencing loss—including his begetter dying from crab successful 2011 and Dustin's member passing from the illness the pursuing year—played into the couple's impulse to commencement their family.

"Lance and I had mislaid truthful galore radical successful our families and determination was thing astir surrogacy that we were drawn to that conscionable meant that we could walk connected the radical that we'd lost," Tom explained connected the podcast. "Their genes and their thoughts, their feelings, their personalities and being capable to bring idiosyncratic into the world, that felt truthful highly special."

And having welcomed Robbie via surrogacy, the process has a peculiar spot successful Tom's heart.

"Surrogates are guardian angels, they are truthful incredible," he noted. "There are nary words to explicate arsenic to however grateful you tin beryllium to idiosyncratic and they are truthful incredibly special. Our surrogate is truthful peculiar we talk to her each the time, connected Facetime with Robbie and we explicate to Robbie that she is his tummy buddy and that is however helium came into the world."