Leanna Ortega, a single mother, decided to become a surrogate after watching a TikTok video about a woman experiencing surrogacy. She found purpose in helping another family build their dreams.
Leanna Ortega was scrolling through TikTok one night when she came across a video of a woman who was eight months pregnant sharing her journey as a surrogate carrying another family's baby.Something about her story resonated with Ortega and what she was feeling.'I think it was more so me just wanting to have some type of purpose or something,' she said.Ortega is a single mother of two.
She said she had easy pregnancies and, while she is done having children of her own, she has always considered fostering or adopting. She saw surrogacy as another way to give back by carrying a baby for another family.She filled out an application for Surrogate First, a surrogacy company in Southern California founded by Jeffrey Hu.Hu said he and his wife struggled for years with infertility to create their family of five, going through half a dozen rounds of IVF.'We went to four different countries, and eventually we were able to have our children through surrogacy,' Hu explained.Their experience inspired the couple to found their company, which has welcomed 300 live births over the last six years.Hu said only 3% to 5% of applicants make it through their process, which involves finding a compatible match and asking questions about everything from termination to COVID-19 vaccination and whether they would want to be a surrogate for an international or same-sex couple.Ortega was approved, and it did not take long for her to find a match. She received a profile of a couple from Southern California.'I was like, Yeah, I'll do it for them,' she said.Ortega was required to take hormone shots, and then the couple’s embryo was implanted. On the first try, she was pregnant. It was once again an easy pregnancy, except for one very important difference.'From the very beginning, I like really prepared myself,' said Ortega. 'This is not my baby. It's somebody else's.'Her kids knew she was doing it to help another famil
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