Sofia Vergara and her fiancé, Nick Loeb, are getting ready to have a baby via a close pal who’s acting as a surrogate mother and suffered a recent scare when the woman was rushed to the hospital with fears she'd miscarried.

“Sofia’s surrogate had developed pain and went to the hospital, fearing that she was going to have a miscarriage,” a source told The Enquirer of the Feb. 22 incident. “Sofia thanked God that everything was OK.

“After several hours, it was de­termined that the baby was fine, and so was the surrogate mom.”

Sofia hand-picked the surrogate mom, the magazine reported, because she's "one of her healthiest and closest friends."

Loeb, who's been dating the Colombian beauty for three years had long pressured Vergara to have children with