My journey to surrogacy

The question most people ask first is "what made you decide to be a surrogate?". This post is pretty much an extended answer to that question.

I vaguely remember about five or so years ago seeing a special on surrogacy and remember thinking how awesome that was. Fast forward to my first pregnancy with my son. It was super easy and I actually enjoyed being pregnant. I remember thinking back to the special/article and thinking that maybe I should look into it a little more since my pregnancy was going so well. Then came probably the toughest experience of my life. And honestly this going off of what was told to me, because sadly I don't remember it all that well. Long story short I had a really rough delivery of my son and lost a lot of blood. He was a perfectly healthy baby boy, mommy just had some issues. So after that I kinda put thoughts of surrogacy on the shelf.

A couple of years after the birth of my son I got pregnant with my daughter Zoe. My birth experience with her was worlds a part from the one I had before. I was so thrilled to learn that my body could handle birth as well as it did. After a couple of months surrogacy started weighing heavily on my heart again so I started researching again. One of the things I learned while researching was that my BMI was a little on the high side so I decided that once I dropped the weight I would apply with an agency.

I had been matched with another couple before being matched with E^2 (if they decide they don't mind their names being mentioned I will say them later) and things just didn't feel right. So to anybody out there thinking about becoming a surrogate please trust your gut feeling. Because I almost went trough with my former match and I am SOOOO happy I didn't. I love E^2 and I haven't even met them face to face yet. Whenever I talk to E(Intended Mom) on the phone I feel almost like we've been friends for years. I am beyond exited to go on this journey with E^2, I seriously couldn't have imagined a better couple.