Our Surrogacy Story: The High-Stakes Babysitter & “The Dad”

LadyGang

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Comedy, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.6 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Becca Tobin is sitting down with the woman literally carrying her baby… and yes, it’s as emotional, complicated, and jaw-dropping as you think. Katie, Becca’s surrogate, gets real about why she signed up for this, the judgment no one talks about, what it actually feels like to grow someone else’s child (spoiler: it’s not what you think), and all of the ups & downs of the journey (including the failed transfer and miscarriage). They talk “high-stakes babysitting,” delivery day, family, and “the Dad” of it all!

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to the Baby Gang series, sponsored by BetterHelp. It's the world's largest online therapy service 100% online because we love convenience. We love taking care of our mental health. And we are busy, busy, busy people. I am your host, Becca Tobin, and this feels very weird because I have been part of a podcast
0:25.2	trio for a decade.
0:27.3	And right now I feel like I am swimming without floaties.
0:31.7	This is terrifying.
0:33.8	But I'm going to get over it because I have been wanting to have these conversations.
0:40.1	A lot of us in the lady gang are mothers, soon to be mothers, parents, aunts, uncles, whatever,
0:44.6	or just curious about what it would be like to have a kid.
0:47.8	We'll try not to scare you off.
0:49.3	But I am doing this because four years ago, my son was born.
1:14.7	And I just was able to have access to a lot of incredible experts, conversations that I found to be really interesting among friends. And I wanted a place to share all of this. And so here I am. I also have exciting news. Zach and I are welcoming a baby girl at the end of the summer, be a surrogacy. And we are thrilled. We are
1:22.8	scared. We've had a singleton, is that what you call him? Singleton for four years now. It's been
1:33.0	incredible, wonderful, magical, and we are doing it again, round two. We have not told our son yet,
1:41.3	so if you see him on the streets, please don't, don't ruin this for us.
1:45.9	We have no idea how we're going to tell him. Open to suggestions. So please DM me.
1:52.8	Anyway, he was born via surrogacy. She will be born via surrogacy. And like I said, over the last
1:58.3	several years, I've just had a lot of conversations in this
2:03.3	space. And we're going to talk about a lot of this will be fertility. Some of it will be
2:09.0	trying to conceive while you're pregnant, conversations with parents about parenting,
2:14.7	just meeting some of my friends. And I don't know, this is what we're doing.
2:20.4	And my first guest is my surrogate, Katie. She is carrying our daughter. The first time around when
2:30.1	Ford was coming, we were really private and very secretive about him coming because a few things.
2:40.5	The world is a shitty place sometimes and people really like to insert their opinions on how you
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