mnjen

When asked how I felt giving the babies "away", I would answer "I'm not giving them away, I'm giving them BACK."

:)

I was a gestational surrogate and gave birth to twins in 2009. Hands down, the most amazing, awesome thing I've ever done! I have 3 kids of my own as well, but there's certainly nothing like helping create a family for someone else.

A little piece of advice for after the delivery...make sure you have someone to come visit you while you're in the hospital and when you first get home. You may be perfectly fine knowing that you're going home empty handed but your body and hormones could make you very sad. When I had the twins, they had to be in the special care nursery for a bit and the parents were with them, understandably. When my family couldn't be there with me, I was pretty sad and the hormone dump was no fun! I kept a blog of my entire process for the friends & family of the parents to read and keep up with what was going on. If anyone is interested in reading, PM me and I'll share the link.

Thank you for doing such an amazing thing! Yes, the money is nice but if its not something you REALLY wanted to do, no amount of money would make it worth it. Its physically/emotionally demanding and you are an angel for helping to create a family!