Last year, I carried a child as a surrogate for a couple I met through a surrogacy organisation. It was a wonderful experience that I am proud and honoured to have gone through, but current laws around surrogacy made it much more complicated than any of us wanted it to be.
I had a beautiful home birth, which both parents attended. The baby’s mother had the first skin-to-skin contact with her new daughter, then the family bonded together for a few hours before they introduced the baby to me. We all spent the rest of the day together and I got my first cuddle, then the baby went home to live with her parents.
