Feb 18, 2025
In this heartfelt episode of Girls Talk Healthy Aging, Shawna Kaminski and Alli Kerr sit down with 2 guests today. Laura and her sister-in-law, Jenna Stevenson are here to share an extraordinary journey of love, resilience, and unexpected miracles.
Laura always dreamed of carrying her own child, but due to a chronic cancer and the treatments keeping her in remission, pregnancy posed too great a risk to her health. Just when hope seemed out of reach, Jenna made a life-changing offer—to carry Laura’s child as a surrogate. Though Laura continued exploring every possibility to carry a child herself, she and her husband ultimately embraced Jenna’s incredible gift.
Three years later, on Valentine’s Day, baby Rose was born—one of the many miracles in this journey. But the surprises didn’t stop there. In the third trimester of pregnancy, an ultrasound revealed an abnormal growth on Jenna’s kidney—leading to a diagnosis of kidney cancer. Because of the pregnancy, her cancer was caught early, allowing her to undergo treatment and have her kidney removed just six months after delivering Rose.
Together, Laura and Jenna reflect on their surrogacy experience—the legal hurdles, the emotional and physical toll of hormone treatments, and the sacrifices made along the way. Jenna shares the unexpected challenges of surrogacy, including the difficult side effects of the medications, and what she wishes she had known before starting the process.
At its core, this story is about love, family, and the strength of women supporting each other. Don’t miss this inspiring conversation about the power of generosity, resilience, and the little miracle named Rose who changed everything.
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