*Olivia*

Driving to see Dr. Schmitz, I felt finally ready to begin the next steps of the surrogacy process. Meeting Elena for lunch had done so much to alleviate my concerns. Knowing that she really just wanted to help people like Giovani and me made me feel much better about everything.

I didn’t need to worry that she was going to try to steal him away from me or anything silly like that. I was still glad that we had taken our time in exploring the surrogacy ...