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World's Prolific Surrogate Mum-Had 13 Babies Gave Away OWN Son
World's Most Prolific Surrogate Mum Who Has Had 13 Babies Gave Away Her OWN Son
Carole Horlock gave birth to the 9lb 4oz baby in June 2004, but six weeks after the birth the couple she gave the baby to carried out a DNA test and discovered the baby was Carole's and her husband Paul's Daily Mirror 13 JAN 2022 https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...E-BIRTH-TO.jpg Carole Horlock holding the first surrogate baby she gave birth to Carole Horlock is the world’s most prolific surrogate after having 13 babies for other people. But there is one child she is desperate to see again, the boy who turned out to be her own son by her husband Paul. Carole gave birth to the 9lb 4oz baby in June 2004, believing he was another couple’s child, created from her egg but with the sperm of the other husband. But the couple carried out a DNA test six weeks after the birth and discovered the baby was by Carole’s husband Paul. Carole and Paul agreed they could still adopt him, a decision Carole does not regret, but she was devastated when contact with the couple broke down, and now thinks of her son “all the time”. She is now on the Adoption Contact Register hoping he would like to meet her when he turns 18 this year. Carole, whose achievement has been entered in the Guinness World Records, says: “I am immensely proud of my surrogacy career and having 13 babies who are loved by their families. “Surrogacy has brought me and the families I helped immeasurable joy, but also led to the darkest times of my life. “Surrogacy is the ultimate gift that one woman can do for another. “But there is a darker side when it goes wrong – the heartbreak, emotional roller-coaster and acrimony are devastating.” https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...ruary-1997.jpg Babies number two and three, two girls born in February 1997 Sadly that was the case with her ninth surrogate baby. She says: “This little boy was accidentally created with an act of love between my partner and I. We didn’t know it when we handed him over. “We agonised over what to do, but in the end decided to let them keep him. “People have asked, ‘How could you give this baby away as this one is yours?’, but many of the surrogate babies I have given away have been mine biologically. “The difference was he was also Paul’s. We have never stopped thinking about him. We live in hope he is aware of us and, when he turns 18, he’d like to see us. https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...March-1998.jpg In 2003, Carole agreed to become a surrogate for the UK-based mother and self-inseminated with sperm from the businessman husband. https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...eJuly-1999.jpg Baby number five, a girl born in July 1999 Surrogates were advised not to have sex at all until they were pregnant, but Carole thought that was unrealistic. She says: “I never promised that I would never have sex, but my husband and I took precautions.” When she became pregnant the couple were overjoyed. They attended scans and the birth and Carole stayed with them for a week afterwards. But six weeks later the furious father phoned the surrogacy agency to tell them a DNA test showed the baby was not his. A second test confirmed it. Carole says: “It was just a terrible situation for everyone. I remember repeatedly saying to the surrogacy agency, ‘Do they want him?’ “As a surrogate you are having a baby for someone else – you don’t bond, you haven’t prepared for a child, in fact for nine months you are mentally distancing yourself from the baby. https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...tober-2000.jpg Baby number six, a girl born in October 2000 https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...nuary-2002.jpg Baby number seven, a boy born in January 2002 https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...-June-2004.jpg Carole with baby boy number nine, born in June 2004. After his birth, she discovered he was her own son |
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