Emotional photos and video document birth of twins via surrogate
by Melissa Willets posted in Pregnancy
A surrogate, named Nicole, recently helped couple David and Ann realize their dream of becoming parents when they welcomed twins James and Olivia.
As photographer Haley Lent told BabyCenter via email, the hopeful parents "tried for several years to have a baby with no luck, so they decided to try surrogacy."
On her Facebook page Haley shared an emotional video documenting the births, and explained, "David and Ann, rushed to the hospital [from halfway across the country] as soon as they heard the babies were coming. She added the excited parents-to-be arrived "just minutes before the first baby was born. It was magical."
The road to this long-awaited moment was fraught with challenges. "Nicole had preeclampsia toward the end of the pregnancy, so she was constantly in and out of the doctor?s office," Haley told us. Luckily, the births went pretty smoothly, despite the fact that early on, it seemed David and Ann would miss their babies' arrival. "During the last little bit, labor started slowing down just a little, and the parents were able to walk into the room as [Nicole] was pushing," Haley recounted. "It was probably just about ten minutes later that the first baby was born. It was just so crazy how it happened. It?s like the babies waited for them to arrive."
About being in the room for the deeply-moving births, Haley tells BabyCenter, "David and Ann just seemed completel...
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