{"id":18784,"date":"2026-05-09T17:49:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=18784"},"modified":"2026-05-09T17:49:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:49:47","slug":"our-surrogate-gave-birth-to-our-baby-the-first-time-my-husband-bathed-her-he-shouted-we-cant-keep-this-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=18784","title":{"rendered":"Our Surrogate Gave Birth to Our Baby \u2013 The First Time My Husband Bathed Her, He Shouted, \u2018We Can\u2019t Keep This Child\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"75\" data-end=\"177\">After 10 years of infertility and heartbreak, we finally brought our baby girl home through surrogacy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"179\" data-end=\"280\">During her first bath, my husband suddenly froze, dropped the cup, and said: \u201cCall Kendra right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"282\" data-end=\"348\">Then he looked at me and whispered: \u201cWe can\u2019t keep her like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"350\" data-end=\"443\">I rushed over and saw it\u2014a small surgical scar on our newborn\u2019s back. We had never been told.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"445\" data-end=\"623\">At the hospital, we learned she had emergency surgery right after birth to prevent a serious infection. Doctors couldn\u2019t reach us, so they got consent from our surrogate instead.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"625\" data-end=\"714\">We were relieved she was safe\u2026 but devastated we were left out of such a critical moment.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"716\" data-end=\"768\">That night, I held her tighter and made one promise:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"770\" data-end=\"816\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">No one would ever question if I am her mother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; After 10 years of infertility and heartbreak, we finally brought our baby girl home through surrogacy. During her first bath, my husband suddenly froze, dropped the cup, and said: \u201cCall Kendra right now.\u201d Then he looked at me and whispered: \u201cWe can\u2019t keep her like this.\u201d I rushed over and saw it\u2014a small surgical &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18786,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784\/revisions\/18786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}