Bless the Broken Road

I am thrilled to have received the okay from S & B to share their story and how we came to meet. I cannot use their names, for it is illegal in France to conceive a child via surrogacy, so that is why I will always address them as S & B. 

Their story - This wonderful couple have been together for 12 years and have such a sweet love story. In March 2012, they became pregnant with their first son. Everything was magical and it inspired them to get married to officially seal that bond as a family. They wed in late October, and a week later, S suffered from placenta previa. She hemorrhaged severely and lost 100% of her blood by the time they arrived to the hospital. Their son, so unfortunately, did not make it. As B held their angel, he was told that his wife would also not make it. After 2 cardiac arrests, the removal of her uterus, and experimentations on S, she slipped into a coma for 2 days. Miraculously, S survived and has since then, made a full physical recovery. However, the wound of losing their son is still very fresh. They took a year to grow closer to one another and find peace in their life together. Since S & B come from large families, they wanted to pursue surrogacy regardless of the legal matters that occur in France. S & B looked at 4 other surrogate mother profiles before coming across mine. I am very honored that I am the one that they chose <3

How we came to be - Like I have said before, I had not even finished my surrogate profile before I received an email from the agency saying that a couple from France wanted to meet me. Honestly, I went into this experience thinking that I wanted to help a same-sex couple that lived in the US. I wanted to keep my options open and for some reason in my gut, I knew that I should open their profile.  Right away, it hit me like a freight train. This lovely woman who has been through so much loss and agony, looked identical to a friend of mine that had lost her battle to aggressive cervical cancer not even a month before. For me, signs from the Universe are everything, and I knew that this was a sign from her. D lost her life, leaving behind a 13 month old son, and was bringing this woman to me that had lost a son but has hope to have another. I lost sleep over the next few nights just thinking of all of the emotional heartache that everyone around me has suffered, while I have my health and happy children. I knew this was it. I knew I had to meet them and help them complete their family. For them, and for D. 

I told the agency to set up the meeting and to not send me any other profiles. The connection we had in our first meeting just solidified that everything was going to be perfect!