If you have kids, you know the weird struggle it is to find a way to announce a pregnancy on social media. What's too much? Too little? Too cliché?
Ariel Taylor knew exactly how to announce her most recent pregnancy. The catch? Well, the baby isn't exactly hers.
She's a proud surrogate who has brought babies into the world for couples in Ontario, Canada.
She started her Instagram account, @carried.with.love, to help educate others on surrogacy and share her pregnancy journeys!
This includes answering the question she gets asked the most: doesn't she want to keep the babies she carries?
Short answer: No! They're not hers, and in her mind, she's giving the babies back to their parents when they're born.
Seriously, Ariel has such a fun, cute, and approachable outlook to pregnancy. No question is off limits, and there's no shame in sharing how crazy pregnancy can be!
Her next baby, a boy, will be a sibling for a baby she carried a few years ago. This is her fifth pregnancy and fourth surrogate baby!
She posts updates about her "surro-babe" on her Instagram, where she tracks its size and its health! The baby boy is right on schedule and growing strong.
"There are many things in my life that I am proud of, but being a surrogate is at the top of my list," she wrote in her now-viral post.
"My daughter Scarlett was only 18 months old when I gave birth to surrobabe “R” and now she will be 6 when I give birth to his little brother or sister next year," Ariel said.
"I am so proud of how loving and caring she is and I hope that by watching me grow these babies for others, it teaches her the many ways families can be created and that every journey to parenthood is beautiful and special."
"No matter how you become a parent; surrogacy, donor, step, adopted, foster or naturally, your family is beautiful and you are so deserving of love and happiness."
h/t CafeMom
