April 10, 2021 Pexels To be a surrogate and help couples who cannot conceive by themselves is perhaps one of the most selfless acts. However, it can often be a difficult time for prospective parents who may not know how to go through the gestation period, just as it happened with this mum. A Reddit user shared her experience of being a surrogate mother to her sister’s child. But the problem here wasn’t so much about how the surrogacy would affect the child. It was more on the lines of how the surrogacy has affected the prospective mother. Because while this woman was actually pregnant, her sibling decided to “live like she herself is the one pregnant”.