The shower was lovely...huge luncheon, nice guests, beautiful gifts, nursery looks like a designer did it.
Only this is a surrogate pregnancy, and the surrogate mother was there as well. And I was informed this cost the couple $50,000.
I am just so old-fashioned. I tried really hard to not be creeped out.
Hmmmmm. I dunno. I have to think about this awhile. I don't know what I think.
The surrogate mother / buy-a-baby thing is a tough one. Recognizing the desperation of infertile couples on one hand and the obvious moral/ethical/legal considerations on the other. Adoption wasn't an option it seems?
$50K is quite a chunk of change and I'd be concerned about the surrogate's future involvement and claim on the child.