Where it all began

Being a surrogate is definitely not something you wake up morning, sit up quickly in bed, and say "hey carrying someones child sounds like a great idea"! However, my story is actually something similar. I was sitting on the couch one night after I had put my children to sleep just scrolling through Facebook like most of us do. For some reason a sponsored page was in my feed about becoming a surrogate had popped up. I made a joke to my sister in law Kelly about how I should do it. Little did I know that being a surrogate is EXACTLY what god had in store for me.

After clicking on the link and doing some research I went to bed thinking nothing would come of it. The next day I woke up and it was all I could think about. I did more research on it and brought the topic up to my husband that night. I was caught completely off guard when he thought it would be a great idea. I spent a few weeks praying about it and I felt more sure about it then ever.

Beginning of November I decided to make some calls to a few reputable agencies for more information. I must have talked to a dozen agencies which all asked me the same question in the initial interview process: Are you willing to terminate a pregnancy? My answer every time was NO. This was the end of the conversation with them all as they would not take me on as a client. I WAS SHOCKED.

At this point I figured this journey had come to an end. I kept praying about it and decided if an agency wouldn't take me on then maybe I should try to do this on my own. I joined an online surrogate site where you build a profile and intended parents can search for possible surrogates. Within a few hours a received a message from an agency through this page. I responded to the message with one simple sentence. I refuse to terminate a pregnancy for any reason, will this be a problem? Their response was "No, this will not be a problem. However, it is going to be a much longer process to match you with a couple".

I filled out the application immediately to be entered in the database expecting it to be a few years before I found a match. Within an hour I received an e-mail from Chris (the one i had been conversing back and forth with) He said you are not going to believe this but we just had a couple leave our office looking for someone just like you! I literally starting crying.

So at that moment my journey had began. Gods timing is perfect. there wasn't a doubt in my mind that I was being called to do this.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens