Sadly, the tumours returned, and grew more aggressively. Her physical condition meant that carrying a child would be impossible. Then, Laura's best friend of 24 years Kara Stetson stepped in to offer one of the most amazing gifts we've ever heard of. The married mother of two offered to become a surrogate for her beloved pal.
On Saturday, July 27th of this year, Laura’s friends hosted a baby shower for her at the Yohos’ house, with Stetson five months into her pregnancy and carrying Laura and Nate's child. The following Tuesday, cancer finally won Laura's long-fought battle, and she died
This month, little Caralyn Yoho was welcomed to the world by an adoring father, five months after the mother who so desperately wanted her passed away.
Before Laura died, both she and Nate wrote letters and filmed videos to tell their daughter all about the mother she would never meet.
"It's such an amazing gift," Nate told
the Des Moines Register. “Part of it's having a little bit of my wife back, I can see her when my daughter smiles. It just makes me content with everything.”
