Fertility Inc.: When the Surrogate Gets Left With the Bill
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The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Over 10,000 times a year, someone in America says yes to carrying a child that isn't theirs. |
| 0:12.0 | Nia Trent Wilson was one of them. |
| 0:15.0 | Every time I tell somebody my story, like I guess people are taking aback because it's not every day that you meet a |
| 0:21.8 | surrogate. |
| 0:24.7 | Nia lives in Houston and has her own 14-year-old son. |
| 0:28.6 | She's also been a surrogate three times. |
| 0:32.3 | The first experience was nothing short of amazing. |
| 0:35.6 | The mom and the dad were at all of the appointments, |
| 0:38.3 | and then I delivered the baby. |
| 0:41.0 | They named her after me. |
| 0:42.5 | Her middle name is my name. |
| 0:46.4 | What Nia remembers most from that time |
| 0:48.7 | was how well the intended parents treated her. |
| 0:52.2 | The delivery had been a complicated C-section, and the parents supported her during her recovery. |
| 0:58.3 | They had it to where they paid out of pocket for me to have my own hotel slash recovery room |
| 1:05.8 | with my own nurse, my own maid, my own chef, my own everything, and I'm just like, what is going on here? |
| 1:13.6 | They really wanted to take care of you, it sounds like. Over the top, I've never had, like, I was not allowed to move. |
| 1:22.0 | Like, it was almost unheard of. |
| 1:34.6 | It's been a few years now, but Nia is still in touch with that first family. |
| 1:42.1 | I go to a lot of the birthday party still. I go to a lot of family functions. I'm treated like family more than anything, and it's just an amazing experience |
| 1:45.4 | for me. Nia sent his videos of her hanging out with a baby that shares her name. |
| 1:50.6 | Carried. Say Carrie. I love you. I was able to create a family single-handedly, and to me, |
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