Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Sunday, August 5, 2007

Trusting another woman — a perfect stranger no less — to carry her baby may be the most difficult challenge of Jerri Christensen’s life.

“I do trust that she’ll do the best thing for the pregnancy,” she said of her surrogate. “But you still wonder, ‘What are they doing today ?’”

Like a number of prospective parents struggling with infertility, the Kansas City, Kan., woman found a surrogate mother in Arkansas, just outside Little Rock.