As part of my job, I am often meeting with women who have acted as a gestational carrier (less often a traditional surrogate), when they sign their consent to a declaration of parentage naming the intended parents as the legal parents of the child she just carried, and a declaration of non-parentage re her parentage of this child. Twice in the past two or three weeks, I have met women who altruistically acted as gestational carriers...and then just kept on giving. While chatting with each of these women, they both informed me that after delivering the babies, they were pumping milk for babies who for one reason or another did not have access to breast milk (note that this was not for the babies these women carried). I continue to be truly humbled by the generosity of these women - yes, they are generous with their bodies, but also with their time, energy and their souls. You want to restore your faith in humanity? Chat with these ladies...
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