OUR SURROGATE STORIES

August 14,2020

 My friends journey

My delivery. Having the Mom there and seeing her light up seeing her son born made it all worth it.

When I was given a weight restriction before I had a confirmed pregnancy so my job put me out on medical leave at that time.

Very quickly. Smooth. I was comfortable with the intended mother immediately

Nothing hurt. It was more of anuncomfortable feeling. It was just like getting a pap smear.

They dropped by my house. Meet my family and brought lots of food.

They were sweet and asked a few questions. They seemed to have liked that my husband was in the Army and was stationed in Seol, South Korea.

My husband and mother helped me out by giving me my shots.It got hard when I was traveling with my

daughters cheer team and didn’t have anyone to give them to me.I got lucky one of the moms was a nurse and was able to give them to me. The worst part of the meds was the side effects.I had gotten a migraine that didn’t stop or go away no matter what tell I stopped my meds.

The embryo transfer was easy. Relaxing. The parents weren’t able to make it. 

I am looking forward to more pictures of the twins. And being able to help another family.

The IM would check in on me every so often and after doctor appointments.

She would even show up and wait in the car outside of my doctors for a few of my appointments.

She originally wanted to be there for every appointment but because Covid hit just weeks after the transfer it changed all of her plans. She was able to attend the birth however.

Very simple. No one seemed mean about it. They had questions like anyone would. IE is it my eye, do I feel an attachment to the baby, will it be hard to let the baby go. 

I told my kids I would be helping out another family have a baby that is unable to have babies.

They didn’t really seem to notice or cared the entire time I was pregnant and didn’t even realize I gave birth.

Delivery went smoothly. Felt like any of my other pregnancies. Post-pregnancy was a bit weird to handle at first.

I felt lazy because I only had to worry about myself and I felt like I recovered a lot faster because of it.

 I felt pure joy. She was so happy she was crying. 

  Adult diapers 

 I check in every once in a week and ask how they are doing.

The IM is still out here with baby and wants to plan a visit once her husband is able to fly out here.

My husband didn’t have much to say. He was more concerned about me and my feelings.

He didn’t believeI was taking it as well as I was and I had to reassure him I was ok.

My children have any seen photos of him and say he’s cute.

The family dynamic. They are so close and local to me that it makes it easy to get a hold of someone.

They have lunches for the surrogates and before covid had get togethers with the surrogates and their families.

I wanted to work with someone that would be involved with the pregnancy in some way.

I used mine to purchase my house

 Get a small baby animal. I got a baby kitten right before I delivered and all my maternal instinct just went to the Kitten.I feel like it helped me out a lot emotionally to have something I needed to take care of that needed my full undivided attention at that time since my kids were older and I wanted to do their own thing. 

I had such a great experience the first time around that I would love to bless another family.

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