The Baby Machine ; Femailmagazine Convinced She'd Never Find a Man to Father Her Own Children and Desperate for Motherhood, Jill Agreed to Become a Surrogate. Now, Six Babies and 14 Years On, She Realises - Too Late - the Terrible Price She's Paid for Being ...

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EXHAUSTED but blissfully content after a short two-hour labour, Jill Hawkins lay on her hospital bed and watched as her baby's father, Oliver Rosenwasser, cradled their new daughter in his arms.

Tears filled his eyes as he gazed down lovingly at their sleeping baby girl, and, leaning over to kiss Jill on the cheek, he mouthed the words 'thank you'.

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The Baby Machine ; Femailmagazine Convinced She'd Never Find a Man to Father Her Own Children and Desperate for Motherhood, Jill Agreed to Become a Surrogate. Now, Six Babies and 14 Years On, She Realises - Too Late - the Terrible Price She's Paid for Being ...

A familiar scene, played out in delivery rooms across the world and yet, in this particular tableau there was an additional character - Oliver's wife, Sue, who kissed the baby girl as though she had given birth to her herself.

For Jill it was another job well done.

As one of Britain's most prolific surrogates she has given birth to six babies for five infertile couples since 1992.

Having baby Alexandra for the Rosenwassers - both scientists from Cambridge who had tried unsuccessfully for a child for 18 years - was, she felt, a fitting finale to a remarkable career.

Approaching her 40th birthday, she felt that her surrogacy days were inevitably drawing to a close.

'I'm the perfect surrogate mother,' she had told each of the parents. 'I ...

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