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Society & Culture:Personal Journals
We live in a pretty amazing time. Private citizens are going to outer space, cars are able to drive themselves to places without a human, all kinds of crazy things that our grandparents would never have imagined. I love hearing about the advances in science and technology.
And what we’re talking about today might seem like it’s always been around, but it’s actually fairly new. We’re talking about the idea of surrogacy. Being a surrogate mother means you carry someone else’s baby for them. And the first surrogate pregnancy just happened in 1985. Scientists and doctors just figured this out recently, during my lifetime!
We’re talking today with Emily. She lives in Canada, and she was a surrogate. I could tell when we first spoke that she was kind of an upbeat, positive person. I wanted to know how surrogacy works, why she wanted to do it, if she got paid for it, all those things. She answered my initial questions, then we got into her story.
So today, we’re going to chat with Emily as she takes us on this journey of when she decided to be a surrogate mother for a young couple there in Canada. She had never done this before, but she had some basic expectations of how it was supposed to work.
But what actually happened was not what she expected at all.
Emily on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emilyf_27/ Emily email - emilyf_27@hotmail.com
Resources:Surrogacy.ca (Canada) Surrogate.com (US) PAIL Network - https://pailnetwork.sunnybrook.ca/BabyStepsFoundation.org
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75: Woniya was alone in the Arctic
74: Daril was shot as a rookie policeman
73: Matt crashed his plane in the wilderness
72: Bonus episode - Q&A
71: Deneen dodged a derailing train
70: Aaron survived a tsunami
69: Kira was attacked by a serial rapist
68: Dan was mauled by a grizzly bear
67: Steven was hit by a truck
66: Mariah lost her brother
65: Brandon was dragged by a horse
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63: Liz discovered a suicide
62: Terri witnessed a murder
61: Robin drove the Wienermobile
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58: James was crushed by a tree
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