Posted on 03/09/2024 3:23:15 PM PST by Ennis85
Oh boy! Meet Elvis, 10 weeks, and his 11-day old brother Ezra, who have made British history along with their mums Emily Patrick and Kerry Osborn.
The babies, pictured here for the first time, were born to the lesbian couple via IVF. Elvis was created from Kerry's egg which was fertilised and implanted in Emily so she could be his birth mother.
Ezra, meanwhile, was created from Emily's egg and implanted in Kerry so she could carry and deliver him.
It's the first time the procedure, known as simultaneous reciprocal IVF, has been attempted in the UK - and it has led to a joyous and unique Mothers' Day for the new family of four.
'It's been very emotional seeing both our boys arrive and watching each other become mothers in the space of a few weeks,' said Emily, 38, a creative producer. 'I was always the less maternal one but I've found a whole different level of love, like a new chamber in my heart, for our babies.'
'I still can't quite believe they're both here, that we made our dream of a family a reality,' said Kerry, 35, a teacher. 'We never set out to be pioneers but we hope we've shown other people in the LGBTQ+ community that this is achievable.'
Elvis with his big eyes and button nose looks like his biological mother Kerry. Ezra, with his tuft of ginger hair, resembles his biological mother Emily. Interestingly, the women say that while they love their sons equally, they each feel a greater sense of parental responsibility towards the baby they carried rather than the one who shares their genes.
Emily and Kerry have been together for seven years and started to discuss simultaneous reciprocal IVF during one of the Covid lockdowns.
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It's been bad enough that mentally ill men can breed with mentally ill women but now we have mentally ill women playing Gaia and breeding by artificial means.
Bark works. LOL
You're right. Then it's a personal opinion that I'll keep to myself. I've evolved on abortion, FWIW. I'm a realist.
I believe that if you're unable to conceive, its because you waited too long. Idiocracy, a great movie, pointed this out.
That’s it, I want to be a woman and have a vagina, but retain my penis with testicles as well, which I want mounted on my forehead.
Totally normal, don’t judge, love is love!
I’m still thinking about what this new gender will be called, what pronoun you must use, and what my flag will look like.
You’re probably right, sadly.
It’s all right, don’t worry about it.
Why would the Houthis do this? We must bomb Sana more.
As someone who was only able to have one child due to fertility issues, that is not true at all-My male sibling also has fertility issues-he and his wife had a child with hormone treatments after 10 years of trying, starting when he was 27 and she 25. You seriously need to read up on fertility issues before you post something like that-Idiocracy is a sci-fi movie-not a scientific study...
I do not think lesbian or homosexual male couples should have or adopt kids, because that is not a healthy environment to raise a kid in, but that is my opinion-being Catholic, I don’t like the idea of surrogacy, either-it is too much like outright buying a kid-as if they were a pet. or livestock.
My only cub’s father had no interest in being a parent, and our marriage not legal-he went back to Fla. The guy I married a few years later adopted and adored the cub as his own.
Hubby and I wanted at least 2 more cubs-I wasn’t getting pregnant, so we went to a fertility clinic immediately. I learned I had fertility issues that may have been inherited. My husband, an only child had fertility issues as well. We tried all the tricks and treatments-other than IVF or sperm from a donor, because we did not believe in that, but no baby. We gave up eventually. We were both 23 years old when we first went for fertility treatments-not old...
Nothing about the fathers of these two babies?
So, to be clear, two girls had babies.
There had to be a dude there...David Crosby?
Ancestry-c will have a hell of a time soon.
And your mom was ?and we’re what?
OMG!
Choose your sex. Parents are letting that happen after they’re born, of course.
What a world!
Yeah...I think they left out something
Fathers? Maybe just one sperm donor. That would be kind of like inbreeding, right?
My neighbors in San Francisco were two lesbians, they had a boy and then twin boys. God has a great sense of humor.
They can't go on as three...
Sad.
Barforama!
As in “bark alert” in the title...
Haha!
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