Welcome to the Birthful Podcast. I'm Adriana Lozada, and today we will be looking at

Brits stories from the unique perspective of a surrogate mom. Susan Fuller has had three

children of her own and has been a gestational surrogate seven times. Her stories include two sets of

twins, two C-sections, three water births, two home births, four V-backs, three inductions, and four

unmedicated births. Stay tuned to learn more.

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Hello, Mamas and Mamas to Be. I want to thank you once again for all the love you're giving the show.

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it takes is one link and three clicks starting from birthfall.com slash review and I will be forever

grateful. So today we're doing a different kind of birth story telling because we

have Susan M. Z. Fuller here to talk to us about her surrogacy pregnancies. And Susan struggled to get

pregnant with her first child, and while researching fertility treatment

options, she came across this idea of surrogacy.

About a year later, she and her husband did end up getting pregnant without intervention,

but the idea of surrogacy stuck with her, and within 20 minutes of giving birth for the first time,

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