Babies: 9 - 12 Months
could you be a surrogate?
I know I couldnt do it.
There is NO WAY I could carry a baby for 9 months and give it up. I understand that it isnt your baby from the begining but I still dont think I could do it.
whats your opinion?
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Re: could you be a surrogate?
For my sister, yes.
MAYBE for my SIL.
Yes, but I'd prefer it be a couple I don't know beforehand. I wouldn't use my own eggs, though.
I've had lengthy discussions about it with my friend who was a surrogate for a gay couple. I know everyone's different and would feel differently but she says it's much different than carrying your own child. She is still in contact with them and gets updates/pics of the little boy so I'm sure that is fun, too. She's planning to carry another baby for them early next year (they tried twice this year but one didn't take and one was a chemical pregnancy so hopefully third time will be the charm).
if i had a sister i would make this exception
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Only reason I'd get pregnant again would be for my immediate family. My health is at too big of a risk to carry a child for someone else.
Even if my health while pregnant wasn't a concern, I am not sure that I could do it for logistical reasons. So much time is invested in prenatal and postnatal care (thinking along the lines of c/s)... my lifestyle couldn't support that. It's hard enough to plan for having a child of my own.
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I could. I really enjoyed being pregnant, it didn't start to affect my life until 3rd tri either time, but I know I can't handle raising a third baby. That doesn't mean that I think it would be easy to give that baby to its parents after it was born, but when I think about how easily I was able to have and complete my family (we got pg on our 2nd cycle off birth control each time), it doesn't seem fair that others have that much trouble, so I would do what I could.
My SIL and BIL have been trying for over a year and are just starting down the road of interventions. She has a bunch of underlying medical issues (at 22!) and the sad thing is, I don't think she would accept my offer if I offered to be a surrogate for her.
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I'm with you thought it would be cool to walk around a la Phoebe and tell strangers "I'm pregnant with my brother's triplets!"