Ep 187: We flew with my mom to meet our surrogates’ family in a whirlwind baby tour day!
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Hilary Rushford
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Sadly, much of a surrogacy journey is bracing for disappointment. However the positive side of that, is when things are easy you feel so incredibly lucky.
This week Jeremy, myself, and my mom all flew out to meet our surrogate’s family, our doctor, do a hospital tour, and have our 20-week anatomy scan.
All in a whirlwind 6 hours!
It was hilarious (y’all, our doctor is both an angel and a SNL character), a bit awkward, slightly triggering, and super heartwarming.
May it bring you more compassion, all the good feelings, and make you want to watch Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin this weekend! (wink)
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So grateful you’re here!
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| 0:00.0 | You're welcome. |
| 0:05.0 | welcome. |
| 0:06.0 | What was that? |
| 0:08.0 | You're welcome. |
| 0:09.0 | With Hillary Rushford. |
| 0:10.0 | Say it again. |
| 0:11.0 | You're welcome. |
| 0:12.0 | In advance. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello friend. We have just gotten back from the most whirlwind personal trip over the last week and you know I've been sharing with you |
| 0:27.5 | over the last few weeks that we're just going through a really hard time personally |
| 0:31.2 | right now and I know so many of you are as well. |
| 0:34.0 | But I've also just been thinking about how life is about that balance, right? |
| 0:39.0 | That we want to be honest when things are hard because it makes us feel less alone to hear that other people are struggling |
| 0:47.0 | as well and to know that we are not the only ones. |
| 0:50.3 | And then also because things are hard, at other times we just want to focus on joy and happy stories and escapism and just |
| 0:59.2 | Here's someone else share positive things so that it takes our mind off of it and it reminds us of the joy and the |
| 1:06.1 | positivity that also is present in a beautiful life, like the yes and. |
| 1:11.2 | So I feel like we've been holding space for each other in the hard for quite a few weeks and now I just want to spend time enjoy and so I wanted to share this really personal day with you that in the midst of this incredible |
| 1:28.0 | whirlwind week that Jeremy and I were out of town, in the midst of it, there was one day that was really six hours from like 1 a.m. to 7 p.m. |
| 1:38.9 | where we got to focus on the joy of the baby and this surrogacy experience and my mom was with us which |
| 1:47.4 | I'll explain was just made it even so much more magical. |
| 1:51.5 | Even in the midst of this day though, we were juggling calls. Like we had to drive |
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