Don't know if this one was posted before, but it includes video, so I figure this is the right spot in the forums. 

Pretty sure it isn't JUST to help others ( ).  But I can get behind a woman like this.... any time.

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1. Old news, but still sexy to think about.

2. "Addiction" may be a strong word to use in the general sense, but this is not an uncommon sentiment among surrogates. My wife is one of them, and was a surrogate and connected with a bunch of other current and former surrogates. They love being pregnant. Like, L-O-V-E being pregnant. Like, many of them would rather go through the rest of their lives pregnant than not pregnant. One lady my wife became friends with had been a surrogate SIX times. She carried twins during her second surrogacy and loved it so much that with her subsequent surrogacies she only sought couples that wanted twins. She would carry twins twice more, and with her last surrogacy they implanted two embryos and both of them split - quadruplets. She carried those suckers to 33-34 weeks IIRC, gained 75 pounds, and was on bed rest for the last two months, but she said she had never loved her body more than she did when she had a "heavy clown car belly" (her words). Pretty incredible.

I would say if they're on their third or later surrogate pregnancy, they love being pregnant. if they're on their 7th or later surrogate pregnancy then yeah it would be fair to say might be addicted.

Due to a variety of factors, there can be limits to how many times a woman can be pregnant. For example if the pregnancy ends in a C-Section, that puts a hard cap on how many more times she can have a C-Section birth. My understanding is the limit is four max due to buildup of scar tissue. For a VBAC (Vaginal Birth After C-Section), you're advised to wait 2 or 3 years to allow your body enough time to recover unless you're in excellent health.

This is to say nothing of complications that could also fuck things up for several pregnancies. A doctor could make the call for you so...yeah. It depends.

I like this article. Especially where she describes feeling empty and "broody" whenever she's not pregnant.

I also really loved a blog someone linked on here, about a woman who fetishized pregnancy to the point of becoming pregnant twice, only to suffer severe depression from the repercussions (motherhood). I felt I related to her fully, in ways that still seem strangely forbidden for most women to come out and admit.

What's wrong with you if you truly want someone's baby in your bod, but only to experience lugging it around inside you as a vital aspect of your sexuality, and not because you want to be saddled with it afterwards? Most people would choose to see something wrong with that, especially in the age of Facebook moms. As if god forbid, motherhood was not the be-all-end-all of being a woman.

I take too much pleasure in hearing said the things you're not supposed to say. One of my favorite novels is Girl on the Train. The main character would give anything to have a baby, and feels less of a woman due to her infertility (plus she's become a depressed drinker and lost her husband). Another woman lost her baby by falling asleep and neglecting her, and falsely admits to just not having any maternal feelings at all ("Soon as I get home [from babysitting] I wash the smell of that baby off me..." I love it!). A third woman hates having to pretend in front of her coffee friends that she feels guilty about steeling the first woman's man (and proving that she COULD carry a baby from him), because nothing would please her more than for everyone to know she feels no guilt at all (even though she's also lying to herself because she probably feels guilty).

(January 1, 2019, 11:16 pm)AndreSerizawa Due to a variety of factors, there can be limits to how many times a woman can be pregnant. For example if the pregnancy ends in a C-Section, that puts a hard cap on how many more times she can have a C-Section birth. My understanding is the limit is four max due to buildup of scar tissue.

There is no such limit. I mean, if you have four C sections and then get pregnant a fifth time, what are they going to do, force you to VBAC?

The risk of complications does increase with each C section though.

My grandmother had 16 children (including 5 sets of twins) and as far as I can tell, she didn't have any complications. Although there were a few stillborns, it's still impressive given the fact that this was in the late 1940s-early 1960s.

(January 2, 2019, 6:19 pm)doubleintegral

(January 1, 2019, 11:16 pm)AndreSerizawa Due to a variety of factors, there can be limits to how many times a woman can be pregnant. For example if the pregnancy ends in a C-Section, that puts a hard cap on how many more times she can have a C-Section birth. My understanding is the limit is four max due to buildup of scar tissue.

There is no such limit.  I mean, if you have four C sections and then get pregnant a fifth time, what are they going to do, force you to VBAC?

The risk of complications does increase with each C section though.

I thought it was bullshit myself when I first heard about it from a few people who had several kids via C-Section. They were told by their OB/GYN they limit how many C-Section births they will allow because of the complications associated with having more than two. You gotta keep in mind during the last two decades there was a sharp increase in elective C-Section births. Research has shown C-Sections need to go back to their original purpose: Only when necessary. 

Anyway yeah the health factor can't be ignored with some women and that's what I was talking about.