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When you became a mom, how did that experience affect how you wanted to be a mother and present for your children?
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I was so excited.
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Yeah.
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I became a mom very young.
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I was 22 at the time.
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And so I was so excited.
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I was so excited.
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My ex -husband, he was really scared.
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He wasn't the most excited, but I didn't care.
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I was so excited.
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and so um we were both young but yeah he came around finally
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and um i mean he's my ex -husband
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but um hopefully he doesn't see this and gets upset with me
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but it's the truth i mean we were so young
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and stuff but that's okay i mean my dad didn't want kids
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when my mom told my dad
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that she was pregnant he was not happy about it he was like
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but the playboy parties and the orgies
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and all this stuff it's all gonna end but then like
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when i was born my dad was like this is the best thing
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that ever happened to me like my father loved me like we were super close
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but yeah you know he i mean my parents were not
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that young my mom was 32 my dad was like 36
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but yeah yeah my dad were like he he wasn't he wanted to like party
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and like go to work like he didn't want kids
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but then when he had kids he was like oh this is amazing yeah i was
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so excited and uh i was just And then when I just I love being pregnant.
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And when I was pregnant, I realized like I really loved being pregnant.
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But also I think it's because I had never experienced something where I felt love like that.
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And so I ended up becoming a surrogate after that too, because I just really loved being pregnant.
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And I was a gestational one.
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So I wasn't the biological mom.
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They used donor eggs and eggs embryos they created from those donor eggs.
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And then I had another one after the surrogacies because I was ready to have another one on my own.
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But I also did egg donations too for gay couples.
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Yeah.
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I have a friend who did a lot of those too.
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Yeah.
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Those were fun.
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And then those babies, they look just like me.
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Oh my God.
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So I have a question for you about that.
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So being a surrogate, when you gave birth to the to the baby was it difficult at all to like hand
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that baby over to this other couple or did you really just feel like
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and like recognize like this is not my baby like how was
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that feeling for you it felt uh kind of weird
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because the baby that i had was chinese i feel like this is definitely not my baby i
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and even though you know you can feel a connection to the baby.
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I knew when I went into it that this was not mine.
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So you never like struggled with the connection.
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I was so excited to help somebody have a baby.
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And then I loved that experience.
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I wanted to do it again.
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And so I did it again for a single guy.
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And I just I love being pregnant.
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I wish I could have an I talked about how I wanted to go to fertility clinic
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and use donor sperm and i would create embryos and have one more but because i've had so much surgery
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that's the only reason i don't want another one but
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if i did i would be really excited about it
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because it would be on my own terms you know i don't have to have anybody else
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that makes like any kind of decision
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because it's a donor sperm yeah yeah i have a friend
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that used to work for me she did that she went out
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and got she wanted to have a kid
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and you know just like she's getting to an age where
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she's like i'm not gonna find the right guy in time
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and she got a donor sperm and she's she's a beautiful boy
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and i see him like every week
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and you know she just did it on her own yeah
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what about being a donor egg like do you have contact
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with um those kids at all like does it feel strange to know
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that there's like versions of you running around
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that like aren't yours they still the parents contact me they send me photos here
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and there and then And I'll send them photos of my family.
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And so I do contact them here and there.
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But no, it's not weird.
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I mean, I see the one of them that looks just like me.
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So it's kind of cool.
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Would you be open to meeting them if like down the line, when they were older, they like wanted to meet their biological mom?
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Do you guys have that sort of like set up?
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I've never really discussed that with them.
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I mean, if they wanted to, they know everything about what I do for work.
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So I always feel like I don't want to make anybody feel uncomfortable.
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Like, oh, this is your biological mom.
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She does or she does porn.
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And I think the first family that I carried for when they had found out about what I did.
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That's the last time I ever heard from them, and that was in 2022, and I would chat with them regularly.
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So, that doesn't bother me, though, because, I don't know, it just doesn't bother me.
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Yeah.
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Not my biological child.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But if, like, the egg donor babies, if the parents didn't want me in the picture, it wouldn't bother me.
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But I don't know.
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I haven't really been in that situation where I felt rejected with them.
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But, yeah, the first family just stopped talking.
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They never said anything, but I have a feeling they stopped talking to me because they found out what I do.
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Yeah.
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Which is whatever.
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Whatever.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Wisconsin Tiff Was a Surrogate Mother”. Las palabras que más se repiten: excited, donor, mom, baby, egg. Este vídeo tiene 99 frases y 1022 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:41. El hablante habla rápido, unas 180 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 85 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

13 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
donor sustantivo/ˈdəʊnə/donador, donante
biological adjetivo/ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/biológico
egg sustantivo/ɛɡ/huevo, aguautle
bother verbo/ˈbɑðɚ/molestar, agobiar
clinic sustantivo/ˈklɪn.ɪk/clínica
uncomfortable adjetivo/ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/incómodo
scare verbo/skɛɚ/asustar, atemorizar
donation sustantivo/doʊˈneɪʃən/donación, donativo
fertility sustantivo/fɝˈtɪləti/fertilidad
embryo sustantivo/ˈɛmbɹi.oʊ/embrión
surrogate sustantivo/ˈsʌɹəɡɪt/sustituto, substituto
orgy sustantivo/ˈɔɹd͡ʒi/orgía, borrasca
surrogacy sustantivo/ˈsɝəɡəsi/gestación subrogada, maternidad subrogada

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
come around verbo/kʌ.məˈɹaʊnd/entrar en razón
end up verboterminar, ir a parar
find out verboaveriguar, anoticiarse
go out verbosalir

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

  • He wasn't the most excited, but I didn't care.
  • Do you guys have that sort of like set up?
  • I've never really discussed that with them.

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 24 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, didn't, doesn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: biological /ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, fertility /fɝˈtɪləti/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: biological /ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/, orgy /ˈɔɹd͡ʒi/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como donor, biological, egg.

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