Hey ladies! Being a surrogate sounds like a wonderful idea. To be able to give someone such an amazing gift would be awesome. But I know that I could never do it. I have already been an egg donor for my aunt and for me it has been an emotional roller coaster. When she was pregnant it was okay but once the baby was born it got harder. It was hard to see a baby who looked just like my daughter, then it was hard not to think every time I look at the baby that she was really biologically mine. Not only that you have to think about the process as a whole, like all the monitoring, fertility drugs, needles that you have to give yourself everyday, your emotions all out of whack, plus here in Canada they do not put you to sleep when they do the egg retrieval so for me it was really painful when they took the eggs from my left ovary because my left one is exceptionally higher than the right.
Well anyways I could go on forever about these topics but I won't bore you
My point was that being an egg donor was hard for me and I didn't even bond with that baby like my aunt did. I could not imagine caring the baby for nine months then having to give her up even if it wasn't my egg.
And please don't get me wrong I am happy that I gave my aunt such a wonderful gift and I don't regret it but it was a lot harder then I thought it would be. Especially when you have to sign the paper that terminates any parental rights, that was when it became reality for me.