We had questions regarding the possible difficulties that come with hiring a surrogate to carry your baby but we really didn't expect Kim Kardashian to open up about them. The now mom of three got especially real in a new post for her website and app on the realities of gestational surrogacy and apparently it was far from easy!
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Kim started off by sharing why she chose to hire a surrogate in the first place.
I have always been really honest about my struggles with pregnancy. With my past pregnancies, I suffered from both preeclampsia and placenta accrete," she wrote. "Preeclampsia and placenta accrete are high-riskconditions, so when I wanted to have a third baby, doctors said that it wasn't safe for my – or the baby's – health to carry on my own. After exploring many options, Kanye and I decided to use a gestational carrier.
Kim and Kanye's third baby was born on January 15, 2018 at 12:47 a.m. at 7 lbs and 6oz.
Kim wrote about misconceptions people have around the term surrogate.
“Although I have used the term surrogate in the past, a gestational carrier is actually the technical term for a woman who carries a baby that she has no biological relationship to. A traditional surrogate donates her egg, is artificially inseminated with the father’s sperm and then carries the baby to term. Since we implanted my fertilized egg in our gestational carrier, our baby is biologically mine and Kanye’s.”
But as comfortable as Kim and Kanye felt about their gestational carrier, it was still really hard.
“Having a gestational carrier is definitely different, but anyone who says or thinks it’s the easy way out is completely wrong. People assume it’s better because you don’t have to deal with the physical changes, pain or complications with delivery, but for me it was so hard to not carry my own child, especially after I carried North and Saint,” she wrote.
We can’t help but appreciate Kim being so honest about her gestational carrier experience.
As rewarding as it, it certainly doesn’t seem easy. And like she says “it’s not for everyone.”
