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My Surrogate Home Birth Story: Part III

Giving birth in my bathroom into the arms of the baby’s parents

Kim Barrett
Kim’s Surrogacy Journey
13 min readMar 3, 2023

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A close-up photo of the author sitting on the toilet, with only their torso visible. They are wearing a t-shirt that says ‘surrogate’ on it and holding their partner’s hand, who is holding a TENS machine in his other hand. They are both out-of-focus and, in the foreground, the scrubs and arm of a midwife frames the shot.
The author labouring on the toilet © Kim Barrett

To read about the first stage of my labour as a surrogate, click for Part I or Part II.

At around 8am on Sunday morning, 25 hours after labour first started, we heard that the midwife who had been caring for me throughout the…

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