Us surrogates & egg donors go through many discomforts that come along with pregnancy and having our ovaries bursting at the seams with eggs for retrieval. 24 eggs, the egg donors dozen! 
While we love being surrogates & egg donors, don’t kid yourself, we have had our own (sometimes hilarious) experiences with it. Please enjoy some of the confessions that surrogates and egg donors have been so sweet to share with me. I laughed pretty hard at some of these, I hope you get as much entertainment from them as I did. 
“I became a surrogate because I was unfulfilled by the lack of excitement from my own partner over our natural children. I wanted to vicariously live through people who would be thrilled about the baby I was carrying for them.”
“every time I need to pee I think ‘ I should have bought more tests!”
“I boiled a crochet hook to sterilize it and used sterile gloves I had acquired from a hosp to try and break my own water. I could reach my cervix with my hand, but I just couldn’t get the hook anywhere near where it needed to be. Needless to say, it didn’t work!”
“I’m excited to not to have to stay up nursing a newborn and listening to my IPs tell me how tiring their first days as new parents are”
“after big meals I look in the mirror and stick my ‘food baby’ out and look at my husband and say ‘I MUST be pregnant! Look at this stomach’. He kindly reminds me that there’s no way a little embryo would be the size of my supper that night… men 
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“I enjoy pregnancy, labour and birth but I don’t want anymore of my own children. I found a pretty cool way to satisfy this desire.”
“During my surrogate pregnancy, my farts got so bad that some nights, my husband slept with an actual gas mask on. According to him it was the only solution for survival.”
“The best thing about surrogacy is helping grow/make a family and watching these people become parents. I never understood why I enjoyed being pregnant until I became a surrogate!“
“While going through screening I logically knew nothing should come up, I was worried results would show something I was unaware of.”
“There were days near the end where I skipped my PIO because I just couldn’t take the thought of another.“
“Traveling for transfer was suppose to be a break from my kids. Instead I ended up bringing them with me”
“Those pregnancy hormones do a lot of things to you. MAke you feel up and down. For me, OMG my sex drive was CRAZZZYYY. I felt I could not get enough of sex and foreplay and was always horny.“
“I spent nearly $300 trying to induce labor. I was done.“
“My surrogacy journey was the only time I was excited to have morning sickness and constipation.”
“I wish I could have breastfed in the hospital to kick start my milk production. Exclusively pumping is hard and maintaining a supply without a baby is even more difficult.“
“My siblings and in laws don’t know I was a surrogate“
“Never thought I would gain friends from this experience that would become like family.“
“I feared going for my ultrasound recently. I knew they shouldn’t find a baby already on ultrasound but I had been sexually active. I mean I knew I shouldn’t be pregnant but WHAT IF. NOW, I’m stressing. Like am I the only one who fears ultrasounds and all the things they COULD find. What if…”
“My husbands favorite thing was to tell everyone that his wife was knocked up…and it wasn’t his. Then he would sit & watch their reactions. For fun.”
“I felt the IF wasn’t onboard with the whole journey and that the IM forced him through everything and even the week the baby was born he didn’t fly in until 2 days before the scheduled c section and the IM was here for a week and a half. She was excited but she tried to “cheap” out on everything“
“Having to fly to another province for the transfer was a mini vacation for me. I visited friends, went sight-seeing, and ordered room service at the hotel. It was a nice break from my kids.“
“I never had hemorrhoids with my own kids, however, I had mild ones after the 1st journey and mild to medium with 2nd journey. I had no clue how to handle this.”
“I stole the hook [for breaking the water] from the maternity ward but couldn’t get to through the cervix!”
“When I signed up to be a surrogate I thought it would be easy with no issues. It turned out be harder on my body than I thought it would be.”
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