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Every once in a while I mention Getupgrrl, who has been keeping a weblog ever since she first started infertility treatment a long time ago. I'm only one one hundreds and hundred of people who have followed her story, which has been consistently thought provoking and funny, but otherwise spanned the emotional gamit from frightening and tragic to this newest chapter, in which a healthy child is born. He was brought into the world by a good woman who agreed to be his gestational surrogate. She will forever be his birth mother, though the egg and sperm that created him came from Getupgrrl and her husband.
Getupgrrl's story isn't there for you to read in its entirely. She's had trouble with people filching her stuff without permission, and so she only leaves one or two posts up at a time. I'm hoping she'll turn the whole thing into a book at some point, because it's a story that deserves to be heard by a wider audience.
In the meantime, you can read her post about the day her son was born.
What a lucky boy he is.
August 19, 2005 02:47 PM
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I started reading getupgrrl because of you. She is always making me laugh and cry. Thank you!
Posted by: sarandipity at August 19, 2005 03:37 PM
I have been reading her blog for a long time, having found her through you, and I have to say, it's a very happy/sad thing that she is ending her story, after so long. I don't know that I've felt the two emotions so strongly at the same time before.
Posted by: Simonne at August 22, 2005 04:14 PM
Please tell me how to find more of the story on getupgrrl and her family. I have just discovered your site and learned of her story and would like to read more. Thank you.
Posted by: Angela at August 23, 2005 08:15 PM
Angela -- I can't help you, I'm sorry. It's up to Getupgrrl to decide if and when she's going to make the archives for her weblog available so that new visitors can read the whole story. You could email her (the link is on her weblog page) to say that you're hoping she'll do that one day soon.
Posted by: sara at August 24, 2005 01:26 AM
I just read in a comment on Blogging Baby in a post about Copyrights and infertility that GetUpGrrl is writing a book. Don't you think that's deceptive since she always appeared to be writing her blog to help other women. Writing a book for money is helping herself and it's my feeling that she wrote her story and left her readers hanging so that she could sell them a book to get the ending.
Posted by: ow at October 24, 2005 10:20 AM
Pardon, but we *did* get the end of the story. The story of her son's birth was quite lovely.
Posted by: akeeyu at October 27, 2005 07:39 PM