Lisa Messenger sold her house and pushed her body to its limits trying to conceive. In one phone call, her best friend Sarah Megginson changed her life with a 'phenomenal' gift.
abc.net.au/news/best-friends-surrogate-pregnancy-ivf-struggle/102370118There were few limits to Lisa Messenger's perseverance and willingness to push her body's capabilities in order to become a mother.
But it was ultimately the gift of surrogacy from her best friend, Sarah Megginson, that was able to fulfil Lisa and her fiancé Stevan's dream of having a baby.It seems fitting that Lisa and Sarah's friendship began with talk of a baby more than 12 years ago. Fast forward seven years and Lisa was a few rounds into her IVF journey when Sarah — now a mother of three — offered to be a surrogate.At the time, Lisa was still optimistic about carrying her own baby.
Sarah said she loved being pregnant and while her fertility experience had been very easy and straightforward with her husband David, they had many friends' whose experiences were vastly different."So when I came to him and said I was talking to Lisa and I might carry her baby for her — it wasn't a total surprise.
"Just the injections and the hormones involved with one round of IVF is significant enough, let alone 16.Stevan Premutico, Lisa Messenger, Sarah Megginson and David "Christo" Christopher say they will be bonded forever.
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