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Prolific surrogate mother retires after 10 babies

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Friday, September 07, 2012 | 0 comments

What sort of woman offers to be a surrogate for a childless couple?

An incredibly altruistic one, of course.

And what sort of person goes on to offer three more women the chance of a baby they could never have naturally?

I think we'll agree that when she did just that, Jill Hawkins, a 48-year-old legal secretary from Sussex, entered the realms of living sainthood.

"When couples meet me, they're often taken aback by how normal I am," she smiles.

"What I do is unusual, but a great many people do unusual things.

I'm very fertile, I get pregnant easily and I pop out babies like shelling peas, so it seemed obvious that surrogacy was a way of listening to my biological clock while helping others."

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About Catherine: I am mom to three grown sons, two grandchildren and two rescue dogs. After years of raising my boys as a single mom, I remarried a wonderful man who had never had a child of his own. Unexpectedly, I found myself pregnant at 49!
Sadly we lost our precious baby at 8 weeks, and decided to try again. Five more losses, turned down for donor egg, foster care and adoption due to my age and losses - we have accepted there will be no more babies in our house.

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