It is 7 o'clock in the morning and half an hour ago we got the call. It is Adam and I's 12th wedding anniversary today and Jess this morning called us. We're laying in bed and Adam just starts hitting me because my phone's going off and my phone I tuck it like at the top of the mattress and I literally fell off the bed trying to get the phone I'm'm like, hello? And she said, hey, Jess called, she's like, do you want to have a baby today?
And she's like, my water broke. No, not my water broke, my labor started. Everything's in God's hands. It didn't like totally feel really real until about 10 minutes ago when I was standing in the shower.
So...
12 years ago here. And today's the day on our 12th wedding anniversary. Like... Adam and I didn't get each other gifts because we've just been so frantic and stuff and we're getting the best gift ever. So, update soon!
Oh, here we are. It's real it's true I'm a mommy you saw the title of this video yeah we missed the birth of our son uh but we're gonna get into all of that in this video and I'm gonna try not to just bawl the whole time because I've just been I just been doing that I've just been constantly doing that. So if you're new to this game and you're like, hey, who's this girl and what's going on here?
My name is Selena Myers, known as Selena Spooky Boo online. And my husband and I have been dealing with infertility for 12 years. We've lost two pregnancies in the past, Ellie and Charlie. And we had given up, we'd given up. We'd gone through everything, found out that I had a corneate uterus,
came, got, you know, found peace. Found peace in the fact that we probably weren't ever gonna be parents. Then we linked up with CFC Families, which is a surrogacy agency here in Canada. And they introduced us to Jess,
and Jess ended up being just the best. And she carried our sweet little baby. So back in November, Adam and I went through IVF, had eggs taken out. A lot of people always wonder how that works. So my eggs came out and Adam's stuff,
put that together and made an embryo, put it in Jess. And nine months later we got to meet our son. Oh my God, just saying that is so crazy. I keep just bursting into tears. It's such like a, and everyone says like you'll understand when it happens,
but you literally can't understand it until these moments happen. But it's just been such a whirlwind because he was born on Sunday and I'm filming this now on, I don't even know what day of the week is apparently that's how it's gonna run it's it's Wednesday right now but he was born on Sunday feels like he was born 45 minutes ago but it has been the
most extreme time of my life filled with so many emotions and I'm so thankful but I want to tell you guys the story because it's insane um our son's name is Remy. So name drop. It's been on social media. His name's Remy. It's the only name we ever agreed on. We both like such different names, but there was like some like hardcore hunter dude and Adam was like, his name is Remy and it's really cool. And I'm like, it's cool. And I, I Googled it and it means oarsman. It's like the oar man on a boat, I guess, from the olden days. I like it.
I like it and I love it and I think it really suits him. But the story of his birth is insane. I'm gonna be honest, I'm probably gonna mess words up, truly, because I have not slept. I've probably slept three hours ever since. I actually want to back up.
Let's talk the night before the night we got the call. I had food poisoning. I have this, like, I love this restaurant, but I've gotten food poisoning twice and I just was like, no, I'm going to be fine. And I ate there and I, Chris is snapping me. Chris has been great through all this. And I got food poisoning. And I was, so the night before he came, so Friday, Saturday, Friday night, I was so sick.
Oh my gosh, I literally thought I was gonna have to go to the emergency room. We thought, well, we honestly at a point thought we were gonna call an ambulance, but everything finally started to settle, which was good. The next night, I still wasn't well. I had been asleep for maybe two and a half hours at 6 AM because we knew, Jess said, as soon as I start labor,
do you want me to call? And I said, yes. And at this point, we're past his due date. His due date was August 27th. At this point, it felt like he wasn So we're rolling into Sunday morning. It's 6 a.m. Okay. It's our wedding anniversary, which I find weird because listen to this August 31st, 2000 something. We bought our first house August 31st, 2013. We got married August 31st, 2025. Our son was born. That date is like very, very something for us. Very there. Can't even think. I'm so tired, but in the best way. Adam hits me. Very, there, can't even think. I'm so tired, but in the best way.
Adam hits me. He's like, phone, phone. I put my phone at the top of my bed. I like shove it in. I'm like trying to pull it out by the charger. It falls on the ground.
I throw my body onto the ground. I rip the phone up. I go, hello? goes, do you want to have a baby today? And I was like, are you serious? And she said yes, that she had just had a shower because she got up, she felt what she thought was like some contractions, didn't know if it was Braxton Hicks, she was just gonna have
like a little shower, see how she was feeling. And lo and behold, things were getting more extreme. So I said to her, I think some were like 11 hours, some were like 24 hours, but the more pregnancy she's had, and I think this is like the seventh or something, they're longer.
So she was expecting this to be like, like a 20 hour kind of labor. That's what it seemed like. Didn't go that way. So she felt kind of dizzy and she ended up calling the midwife to come check her and the midwife wasn't sure if she was going to come and check her because, you know, the
history of her past labors and stuff like that. Because we were planning to go to a birthing center with a midwife in Markham. That's what Jess wanted to do. So the midwife came to check her and at this point it took us an hour to pack up the whole car, get ready, get on the road. We are now driving to where she lives,
which is just about a little over two hours from where we live. But we're thinking we're gonna get there, we're gonna get a hotel room, let her labor at home like she, you know, she wanted to labor at home,
let her have her time, be ready there on call because we were the ones who were going to take her to the hospital. So now I want to go to this interesting point where I had a dream a few months ago that this baby was going to come very fast. And I got actually really scared about it and we had talked about it and I was nervous about it and it was funny because when we left, because I knew we were going to drive to the hospital, I packed a bunch of fresh towels in the truck just in case which I'm sure a lot of people do but I was just I was like I need to I need to
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the world. So we are driving. We're driving a normal pace. We're like breathing. We're like, oh my God, today's the day. He's going to come on our wedding anniversary. This is so special. When I get a message from Jess, she said, you know, midwife checked. She said, I'm three centimeters. Cervix is still really thick. We're thinking everything's fine. Everything is going to be totally fine. Mm hmm. I'm going to sprinkle some clips in here.
Next time we come home, what's gonna happen?
You mean next time we all come home, all three of us? Yeah. Let's go, buddy. Are you ready? We got shit to do, places to be.
It's the first time I think I've ever seen you frantic.
I'm not frantic, I'm excited.
Excited, okay.
So she sent that message at, I think it was 7 51 a.m 7 minutes later. I get a message and she goes waters broken They're calling an ambulance and she told me earlier that she had contractions like every two minutes But that was like super normal for her to have the whole time and that all of her All her labors were super long and super intense. So like props to her for being a freaking rock star for just raw dogging these pregnancies for
people. Like it's just amazing that, you know, she's, she uses her body to like in this purpose to like help people build families and like, like just being humbled by watching her do this and what she's done for us and just seeing her look at us after she like hands us this baby. I'm getting ahead of the point here. Let's back up.
Let's back up. She says they're calling an ambulance. I tell Adam, we start, we start doing a buck 65 on the 401 in kilometers, not miles, still too fast. Adam's like, you're on cop watch. And I'm just like trying to call my parents
and trying to call people. I'm still not understanding that this means things are happening now. I still didn't understand that we weren't going to the birthing center. I didn't understand how crazy things were
about to absolutely fall apart. So I get a phone call, phone starts ringing, it's Jess. I pick up, I'm like, hello, hello. All I hear her in the background is, ah, like she is in pain. She is uncomfortable. She is not having a good time.
It's not a good time. The midwife picks up the phone. I'm so glad she went to check her. I'm so glad she was there. She goes, Selena, I've called an ambulance. We are going to the nearest hospital. I'm like, oh, so not the birthing center.
She's like, no. She goes, Jess is going really quick. Like this is going really quick. And I'm like, holy shit. Cause here I am kind of like this psychic person. And I was like, I felt like this was gonna happen.
I'm like having terrified, right? So at this point, I'm putting the GPS because this hospital is closer to her. It's not, you know, Markham where I thought they were heading. We're an hour away or not an hour. I think we're like 47 minutes away at this point.
We're going so fast. I'm losing my mind. It's like seven, eight o'clock in the morning. Holy shit, Adam, like our baby's coming and now I'm panicking now. I'm like, you know what? I don't care if I'm there when he's born as long as he's okay. I just need him to come into this world safe I just need just to be okay. I just want everyone to be okay Like just as long as everything goes smooth, I can't cry. I can't laugh. I'm just like Staring I'm just feeling this insane wave over way too high I can tell that my pulse is way too high to be expected it's a it's a crazy experience that
we're going through okay we just got a really scary call um the midwife went to go and check Jess and she was three to four centimeters which was having contractions every like two minutes and then her mucus plug went and then her water broke and now she's four to five centimeters. So Jess sent me a message, she's like we're calling an ambulance. We are 54 minutes away from the hospital. At the midwife, Jess called me and the midwife talked to me and she said
things are going fast, she's going to go really fast. This is it, we're going to a different hospital. I hope everything's okay, but also... He's coming really fast. She's never had a labor that wasn't like 24 hours. And it just started, uh, two hours ago? Okay. Okay. The whole entire time, what's crazy is, I've said the whole time I thought he was gonna come really, really fast,
and I thought he was gonna be born in a car And I literally put towels in the back of our truck because I had this weird intuition And now we might literally miss We might literally miss his birth We're not going to he's gonna wait As long as like
I don't care if we miss it. It's just that he's healthy and he's safe and he's fine and that's all that matters So at this point all communication has stopped between me and Jess The midwife I'm not hearing from anybody. I'm just I'm power messaging her saying I'm so sorry. I'm not there I'm so sorry that I can't support you through this because my plan the whole time she had a wonderful doula She was like the coolest chick ever but like I wanted to be there to support her because she's just been through so much and I just really wanted to be as
Like a wall for her and to like help her labor through this and help her help her get through all of this
but and to help her labor through this and help her get through all of this,
but it didn't play out that way. And things just started, things just started to happen really, really fast. And we're flying down the 401, and there's no more messages. And I have this wave over my body,
and I'm just like, oh, we're not gonna see him be born. I'm like, he's coming and as long as he's okay. Like I just need him, I need him to be okay. And this whole pregnancy, like it's felt real, but it felt like too good to be true. It felt like I've been through so much loss.
I was just like, something's wrong. Like I felt like something was wrong and I was trying not to cry I was trying not to lose it and Adam was just like I can't even explain you guys Adam is like I'm gonna just talk about it He is just like he's been through so much of his head injury and like he's still sick and he is just the strongest
most level-headed person in the world and he was just like we got this and you've got this and you know what a fun story and I'm like think of the title of the YouTube video when I get to tell this story we missed the birth of our son, which we did. So I have the hospital, which is in Oshawa, and it's so far away. I call them, I say, hey, our baby is coming. Our surrogate's coming by ambulance. I think we're gonna miss it maybe.
Like, we don't know at this point. All we know is she's going. Like, we don't know anything, right? Like, we have not been through labor ourselves with a live baby. We've never been through that. So they tell me how to get there So we make a plan that when Adam drops me off
I'm gonna run in Adam's gonna park and we are going to go and he's gonna meet me up there I just came in from filming that video. My mother-in-law's letting me have a nap But I forgot to tell you one of the funniest things that happened on the way to the hospital. So sorry for just throwing this clip in there. But we're near the hospital, we're at our last left turn.
Oh my God, look at my bags.
We hit a red light, one that we had to wait at because we might've safely gone through a few of them. There was a homeless man on the corner and Adam goes, do you have any money, do you have any money? money because I'm just that kind of person and I'm like looking my bag I'm like I don't have any cash he goes into his wallet he opens it up all right my husband takes out three hundred and forty dollars and gives it to this
homeless man and the man's like oh thank you and then I go we're having a baby and he's like do you know what you're having and I'm like it's a little boy and he's like congratulations I just a little boy and he's like, congratulations. I just thought it was so funny that like in this crazy moment of panic, Adam was still like, how can we help someone else? But that I needed to be up there. So I go in the emergency doors, there's a security guard, he was like, hey, hey, because I run in, I say, I need to get to labor right now. My baby's being born right now and I'm going to miss it. He says go out the front. He tells me the absolute wrong wrong wrong wrong instructions. They told me to go into emergency. They said go here here. I thought he would take me. He
gives me the wrong instructions. I run to the other side of the hospital. I have the worst dry mouth of my life. My heart is pounding. I'm convinced I'm about to have a heart attack. I'm running through hallways. It's so early. No one's there. It literally becomes the back rooms It is endless hallways I keep going in different elevators But I must have gotten into some different access area because none of them would go anywhere without a badge. I'm like hitting buttons.
I'm like screaming. I'm like, no, like I need to get there. I'm just yelling to myself, but nobody's there. And I, and I'm, and a lot of it is just me running around. So I ended up seeing this guy. I go, Hey, who are you? I'm like, my baby's being born right now. I can't find labor and delivery. I'm like, please take me.
He gets me to the right elevator. He tells me exactly where to go when I get there. When I get up to the floor, the doors open, I look, I see the labor and delivery doors. It's like one where you need to like get beeped in. I can see Adam running down the hallway.
So in the amount of time that I was lost he parked and got all the way up to labor delivery I see him I start banging on the door the woman's like you need to buzz in I hit the buzz they open the doors and listen to this Oh, um, the sign for the hand sanitizer is right. Oh, God, thank you.
Hi, welcome. Thank you.
Hi, which way- that was my husband.
Oh, room 26.
26, thank you.
Hey! Thank you. Hi. Hey.
3 5 9 0.
Hey.
Come see your baby.
Oh my God.
Sorry, hi.
Hey, hey, hi.
Oh my God.
I was so lost.
Did you?
She wants to have the baby back and pass the baby to her. Is she okay?
Yes, of course.
Of course.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
7 15. and passed the baby to her. Is she okay if I just do a set of vitals?
Yeah, she'll be fine.
I want to check on you.
I'm so sorry.
You just missed it.
The guy knows there's going to be the wrong thing and I was running all over the hospital. I couldn't find this. Do you have a penis? I thought it was going to happen. Are you okay? I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I'm so fast. Oh my gosh. He's here. He's our baby.
Good job.
Oh my gosh. Good job.
How are you feeling? Crazy?
I'm so happy.
I'm so happy.
I'm so happy.
I'm so happy. Oh my god! Good job! How are you feeling?
Crazy?
Still hurting?
Very surreal, eh? Just like, that went really quick. That was the fastest thing ever.
Just now.
I heard him say that just now.
Maybe like...
What time is he born?
I saw you walking and I slammed on the door. So Adam made it in, and at first he thought he was in the wrong room because he didn't see Jess, but he saw that there was a baby and he was like, oh my god, wrong room. And I am like, I am in there less than 10 seconds behind him, and then you hear him say like, meet your baby. And I see him and then I'm like looking at the baby
and time is going so fast. And then I'm just like, oh my God, Jess. And I go over to Jess. It was just such a big moment and he was out. I remember being like, wow, his balls are so huge. And he was crying and I guess, so on Jess's perspective,
she's gonna tell her story too. Make sure to follow her on Instagram and she has her YouTube channel there and stuff but I'm just so overwhelmed. I like this. Oh I'm like crying but I can't even cry cuz I've just been crying for days like you can see the redness like out of happiness so I'm like talking to Jess, but she was at home. They call an ambulance. She's already like feeling like she has to push.
She's going through like crazy contractions. The ambulance shows up. They're like trying to get her on a stretcher. She's like having contractions in the front lawn. They get her there. She's like asking for an epidural
once she gets to the hospital. They're like transferring her from the stretcher to the bed and she's like wants an epidural and they're like, oh no, there's no time They're getting her hooked up baby's heart rate is dropping So like this baby has to come out right now, like he has to come out right now So she is there the doula made it like just in time She was there just before the baby was born. The amazing part was is the midwife was there She met Jess at the hospital. She was so nice. Obviously she didn't have rights at that hospital.
So he had to be delivered by a doctor who I don't even remember talking to. I don't remember talking to him. I don't remember talking to him at all. I remember what he looks like kind of. I just know that right when they got there,
she immediately had to start going. They're like, wait, wait for the doctor. no like he's coming out right now um when we came in like he was over getting cleaned up like they had just like we missed his birth by four minutes it was four minutes and it's like hard but i think everything worked out the right way because if i heard them saying his heart rate was low like i know that my blood pressure and my pulse was way too high. Like I'm scared I would have died.
Um, and like seeing Jess in a lot of pain without being able to get an abdural. But I'm looking at Jess, Jess is in so much pain. I'm so scared for her. Her lips are blue, she's white. Like everything is just going, everything's open, everything's going on. The umbilical cord is out. We really wanted to delay clamping. It was white, which is great, obviously. It didn't take long, I guess, because they put them on her chest for a few minutes,
then took, like, they had just put them over when we came in. And at this point, you know, the whole plan was for Jess to hand them to me because that's what she wants to do and I wanted that too and so they put her put him on her chest so she could deliver the placenta easier and I just got to stare at him and I'm just like this and I could just feel
Adams hands on my shoulders and he was just holding on to me and I felt him like shaking which is not Adam and I just remember looking at him and he was just like enamored and he just kept going like oh my god like baby So everything's done and she's feeling better and And she picks him up and he's so small and she gives him to me and I look at him and he's Adam He looks just like Adam and he's perfect and he smells good and he's
pink and he's crying and he's beautiful and he's, there were so many people in the room and everyone was like, everyone was so good about us. Like everyone was so good to us. And it was such a, like a crazy situation.
Like I had big, I had big baskets ready for these nurses to give them, to like go through the labor and like, do you know with all this stuff, sorry. The lights are so bright. I feel like I can't even tell I'm crying. It's kind of nice
But none of that was even up we were just I just had my cell phone I didn't have my ID Like they weren't being like stingy about it, which was great They said like some hospitals can be like kind of weird about it Because obviously the baby comes in and it says baby It's Jessie's name because she carried it and she gave birth and stuff which is fine but she just hands me this baby and I'm just sitting there and
I'm holding him and I'm looking at her and she's looking at us and I Had just never felt so much Immediate peace in my life. Sorry. I'm just so used to hold a go, but I had never felt so much Thankfulness. Because I really gave up on it. And I really thought, I really thought he wasn't coming. I really thought we'd never have this.
And if it wasn't for social media, and I just said that, but literally if it wasn't for social media, I wouldn't be able to afford this, which it's expensive to do stuff, lawyers and all that kind of stuff. And I never would have met Jeff, Jess and I never, Jeff. I'm really tired. I never would have met Jess and I never would have met CFC.
I never would have met Jess and I never would have met CFC. I never would have went to create I never would have met dr. The rock. I never would have done any of this and I never would have had The strength to do it So I was broken for a long time like when I was little all I want to do is be a mom and I am now.
Oh, big stretch. Are you tired? Oh. Tired? Oh, tired. I'm tired.
It's just crazy, because I never thought we would miss it, but I'm just glad after everything that he's okay and he's here. But I'm just so thankful for Jess, she does such a good job. And I've never felt love like this.
And I know it's crazy and people explain it and you try to understand it and I know so many of you guys watching these are parents. But I look at him and I'm just like, this is what I was always supposed to do. I was supposed to be his mom. And I'm gonna be the best mom, and I promise that to him.
And I'm gonna, I wanna make a legacy for him, and I wanna set his future up, and I want him to be exactly who he wants to be. And I want him to chase every dream, and I don't want him
to go through hard things none of us want that for our children but like I just want him to be free and the world scares me like I come to so much peace with not having kids and and I listen all the people who don't have kids, which is absolutely valid if you don't wanna have kids. But I had it and I had this moment, it was the middle of the night and I'm gonna be honest,
he cluster feeds, he's up about every hour doing 60 mils at four days old and this dude rolls on his side all night. So we have the Owlette monitor to make sure he doesn't die. But all I do is sit there and stare at him because he just keeps rolling over how could a four-day-old roll over on his side oh it's crazy anyways even in like these
throws and these hardest moments I'm like I wouldn't change everything I wouldn't change it I hate even having to like leave him right now I just keep looking at the house like I had to get ready I had to do my hair and makeup to come out here and like I do my hair and go look sit with him and do my makeup and go back out and check on him and put on my clothes and go check on him but this has been a whirlwind but it feels like exactly what I'm supposed to do and I just want to
say such a big thank you to CFC to Create to Jess. She's done so many of these journeys for people and she's been through so much and she has filled the hole that I didn't know was so empty and I can't wait to see Remy grow. He looks just like his dad and I'll put some pictures at the end here, but just Thank you for coming on this journey I'm going to show him for now as he's a newborn, but I think as he becomes a person I don't want to share him because I do want to respect his privacy and
I do want him to like I already know his life is gonna be different because of my job and stuff and I want to keep him for us and I think it's really important for me to still have me. Like yeah, I'm his mom and I'm Remy's mom and Remy's my baby but I'm also Selena and Selena Spooky Boo and I want to keep making spooky content but I'm sure there'll be sprinkles of him in there. But right now I'm just, I'm soaking it in and I'm overwhelmed and I'm excited and I'm in love. So I love you guys and that is Remy's story
and thank you for being such a big piece of it, big part of it, puzzle piece. big part of it, puzzle piece. And I love you mom till next time
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