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Melissa: We had said that we wanted to transfer the embryo into a surrogate.
So we; they sent us profiles. We got our profile; we liked it. But we didn't want to take the first one we saw; we wanted to really look at profiles.
And I think it was like the third or fourth profile that we really liked and then from that point on, everything started rolling.
We had a phone conference, we flew the surrogate in, we had a marathon day. We went to a psychologist. We went through all the levels that you needed to go through.
And we had flown the surrogate in March for the transfer.
We were looking for someone who had children of their own. We preferred someone who was married. We really were looking for someone who wasn't a smoker.
And married and had children. Because I knew that she had gone through being pregnant and knew exactly what she needed to do health-wise.
That she needed to eat, she needed to go to her doctors' appointments. She needed to take it easy for the first couple of months.
I wanted someone who knew what it was like to be pregnant.
This would be her first time being a surrogate, but that really didn't matter to us because she had children of her own. She was pregnant, so she did understand what it would be like to be pregnant.
When choosing a surrogate, you might want to look for someone who's not that far away. Someone who maybe is, like, two hours away.
Because Illinois, yes, it was a two and one-half hour flight, but it was also a two and one-half hour flight to one place, and an hour layover and then getting on another plane. And that was nerve-wracking.
When you're looking at the profile, the surrogate sets the price. So, with our surrogate, in the profiles each surrogate sets her own price for carrying. There's a price for single and a price for multiple.
So, that's kind of another thing that you look at.
God has seen me through, has seen what we've been through, and gave us Sean, which is our embryo. Our miracle.