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“I never imagined, and I think most people don’t, that you’re going to be one of the couples that will struggle with infertility,” Welker, 45, says in the latest issue of PEOPLE. “And yet, there we were.”
After three years and multiple rounds of failed IVF treatments, theWeekend Todayco-host got heartbreaking news. “I consulted with four different doctors. The lowest moment was when that fourth doctor called me and said, ‘We’ve run all the tests. We’ve looked at everything. We just don’t think that you are going to be able to carry a child.’ I thought, ‘How is this ever going to happen?’ "
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Still, Welker did not give up hope. “It was just a matter of how we were going to do it,” she says. “Once you get beyond the ‘Okay, it’s not going to be in the traditional way,’ then you start looking at the other options. Surrogacy felt like the right decision for us.”
Welker and Hughes were matched with their surrogate in 2019 andwelcomed daughterMargot Lane Welker Hughes on June 12.
“I was the first person to catch her and to hold her, I felt the most incredible bond with her, and that maternal instinct kicked in immediately,” she says. “And all of my doubts and fears went away, and then all of the focus was just on her and this beautiful being.”
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source: people.com
