January
14
  3:36:21 PM

British surrogate to give birth to her eighth child

Jill HawkinsIf any should know what surrogacy is all about, it is 45-year-old Jill Hawkins, a British woman who is pregnant with her eighth child – which she will give away as she has done 7 times before. After the last one, she resolved to give up employment as a womb for hire. But she couldn’t resist the buzz of being pregnant again when a 32-year-old woman and her partner approached her. This will be the first baby which was not created from her own eggs. "I love being pregnant," she told the Daily Mail. "It's a compulsion, I suppose, and I really miss it when I'm not pregnant." There is also a financial incentive -- 12,000 pounds for this child. 

Surprisingly, Miss Hawkins does not hold the record for UK surrogacies. The laurels apparently belong to Carole Horlock, a British woman who moved to France four years ago. She has carried 12 surrogate children in 13 years. ~ Daily Mail, Jan 6

 




 

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