How Gestational Surrogates Tell Their Children

Wondering how a Gestational Surrgogate explains her pregnancy to her own children?  Every family and every child is different and so, too, should be the approach to telling why Mom's tummy is growing.  Different ages will have a varying degree of understanding and information should be shared appropriate to the listener's age and maturity.  And, in the end, every Mother knows her own child best. 

Here's how Gestational Surrogate Cori Borjan did it.  This is from The Organization of Parents Through Surrogacy (OPTS) website:

  My youngest was nine at the time. I explained that my intended parents weren't able to get pregnant, but really wanted a baby. I told him that the doctor would take an egg from the intended mom and sperm from the intended dad and would put them inside me until the baby was born. I told him that the baby would grow inside of me, but when the baby is born, it would go home with the intended parents. My nine year old son looked at me and said, "So, it's kinda like you're babysitting." I was so proud of him. He understood perfectly!