I Had Babies to Pay for My Baby by Anna Sale | Audiobook

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Title: I Had Babies to Pay for My Baby
Author: Anna Sale, Sarah Short
Format: Original Recording
Length: 30 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-18-17
Publisher: Death, Sex, and Money, WNYC Studios
Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Summary:
Sarah Short remembers being 19 years old, staring at the bill from the hospital where she gave birth to her daughter. It added up to about $10,000. "There's the anesthesia, the hospital stay, and the doctorand I just laughed," she tells me. "I was like, 'I can't pay this.'"
Sarah had health insurance, but it didn't cover obstetrics. And she'd waited too long into her pregnancy to apply for Medicaid. She felt guilty about bringing so much debt into her new marriageshe married her boyfriend right before her baby was bornand when the bill went to collections, the dollar amount climbed even higher.
"I would just get so overwhelmed and I would be like we're never going to be able to get out from under this," Sarah told me. "And it felt like it was all my fault." So, she started researching ways that she could make money to pay off her bill. She tried to sell her eggs, but says she wasn't what the clinic wanted in an egg donor. "But you're a great candidate for surrogacy," she remembers being told. Soon after Sarah filled out an application at a surrogacy agency, she met the parents she'd be working witha lesbian couple who turned to surrogacy after years of trying to adopt.
Sarah ended up having twins for the couple, although this pregnancy and childbirth were very different from what Sarah went through giving birth to her own children. "When my son was born I looked at himand it was a huge profound moment in my life that I remember," Sarah says. "When the twins were born they didn't look like me, and they weren't mine. I wanted them to get to their parents."

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