While many couples struggle with fertility issues and spend years trying to get pregnant, their doctors are usually able to pinpoint the problem. For one Nashville couple, however, doctors could never figure out why they couldn’t get pregnant.
Whitney Britt and her husband Drew have been trying for the past five years to start a family, and knew after the first two that something was wrong. Doctors performed every test they could on the couple, but found no reason why they couldn’t get pregnant since both were perfectly healthy. The only diagnosis doctors could give them was ‘unexplained infertility.’
“It made everything worse,” Drew said. “There wasn’t a level of closure that other people can get when they know why. There was no answer.” For the next few years, the couple tried everything from artificial insemination to IVF, which all failed. “I was so mad,” Britt said. “You are always searching for an answer. You are always searching for a reason. Since they couldn’t find anything wrong with me, I thought ‘It’s got to be God.'”
Britt’s best friend from childhood and mother of two, Jamie Howell, watched as her friend struggled and exhausted almost all of her options, but when Britt started considering surrogacy, she knew it was her opportunity to help her friend.
Howell asked Britt to join her for dinner one evening, where she decided to break the news. “I found someone to be your surrogate,” Howell said. And when Britt asked who it was, Howell simply responded “It’s me.”
Howell began fertility treatments right away. “It’s a hard world to be a part of and she threw herself right in there,” Britt said of her friend who learned of the devastating loss after a failed IVF treatment and a miscarriage. “She opened her mind, her heart and her soul to welcome all this chaos.”
Howell convinced her friend to try one last time, and incredibly, the last attempt was successful. She became pregnant with Britt’s healthy boy, and gave birth to baby Crews Asher Britt on June 2nd.
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[Featured image: Whitney Britt]
Woman Gives Birth To Best Friend’s Baby is an article from: LifeDaily