Surrogate Mom Gives Birth to ‘Twins’ — Then Learns One Baby Is Her Own Biological Child

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While carrying a baby as a surrogate for a Chinese couple, Jessica Allen became pregnant with her own son – launching an “emotional” battle to get her baby boy back.
During an interview with ABC News “I didn’t even know I was pregnant with [him],” Allen, from California, said through tears. “I carried my own child and I didn’t know he was mine.”
Due to a medical phenomenon known as superfetation — when a woman continues to ovulate after becoming pregnant, Allen, a mother of two, was surprised to learn that she had gotten pregnant with her own child while carrying as a surrogate.

The babies were initially believed to be simply twins.

“The chance of an embryo splitting is very small, but it does happen,” Allen told ABC. “I was very surprised.”
Last December, she gave birth and handed the babies over to the couple. However, seeing a photo of the growing boys, Allen was perplexed.
“I did notice that one was much lighter than the other,” Allen said of the babies — one is Chinese and the other is black and white. “You know, obviously they were not identical twins.”

She and her husband, Wardell Jasper, later learned that one of the boys belonged to them, with a DNA test confirmed the news, ABC reports. They then fought to get their son back in a legal battle they described as “emotional.” In February, they were finally granted custody of the little boy in February.
Allen told ABC of the baby they named Malachi “He’s just so smart, so intelligent”. She continued “He’s learning fast. He’s got two big brothers to run after and learn from.”
Allen first shared her story with the New York Post, telling the outlet that “Wardell and I, who got married in April, weren’t planning to expand our family so soon, but we treasure Malachi with all our hearts.”
She added “I don’t regret becoming a surrogate mom because that would mean regretting my son”. She continued “I just hope other women considering surrogacy can learn from my story.”

Mom’s Post Nails What Real Love Looks Like — And It Isn’t Fancy

She took to Facebook to preach after her husband stepped up.
You can keep your baes and your Tinder and your boombox serenades. A happily married woman took to Facebook sharing what love looks like in your forties.
As you get older, expressions of love change, and sometimes rose petals on the bed is not as great as leaving work to rescue your wife when she forgets her wallet.

Amy Midtvedt is a blogger, mom, and a wife at Hiding in The Closet With Coffee. The Facebook page describes the blog thusly: “We drink coffee. We hide from our kids. We’re nicer and hug them a lot when we come back out. We write about all of it. We never stop looking for the joy.”

Amy doesn’t have far to look, based on a post earlier this week that has over 500 shares, thanks to her husband Todd. She said:
“Yes, that’s my amazing husband who is arriving on the scene with his credit card because what you can’t see is me, standing next to a cart super full of groceries that I couldn’t pay for because I couldn’t find my wallet.”

In her picture she shared about her husband: “Not sure you can tell, but he’s smiling at me. Yup…he had to leave work and he is smiling. His only words of admonishment were, ‘You’re not supposed to be grocery shopping I said I’d go this week.’”
After she found herself at the register without any legal tender, arriving at the grocery store to save the day. Occurred in the middle of the work day, it was an embarrassing moment for her, and surely no less an inconvenient one for him, but you wouldn’t know it.

All he could muster is an admonishment that she shouldn’t even be bothering to run the errand he promised he would do, even though everyone’d expect him to throw a little shade at his wife. Boss threw shade at himself.
It sounds like par for the course for this man, based on the rest of her post.
“Love also looks like me coming downstairs to a full pot of coffee every morning because coffee is love. Love looks like all the lunches being made already so I can enjoy that aforementioned cup of coffee. Love looks like someone washing the dishes while his wife catches up on This is Us while plopped on the couch not helping at all. Love looks like a super patient dad doing the 5 year old’s homework with him every morning so I can get to work on time. Love looks like running to the store before bed after your wife has forgotten to buy milk because you know the morning will be easier if we can serve up some cereal.”

Apparently, this “knight-in-armor” routine has been there ever since college!
She wrote on her page “In college this love looked like boyfriend Todd running to the store for a danish I was craving or watching me and my friends on the dance floor long after he wanted to leave the bar or him being known across campus by the flower backpack he was carrying which of course was mine.”
After defining that when you’re older, those prosaic displays of love become just as momentous as showy proposals and expensive gifts, Amy took the chance to provide some advice to the youngsters on dating.

“Do not be fooled by big, showy promposals and giant cards with candy bars glued to them with some cute saying or by your name spelled in pepperoni by a boy who’s asking you to homecoming.” She wrote.
And of course she’s right. Passion and lust may get all the press, but love is more about an the steady middle – the long haul – than an explosive beginning. And what happens behind the scenes.
She continued “Watch how he treats you when Instagram isn’t looking.” And how he responds when you forget your wallet.”
Amy said that she was beyond gratified by the response her post is getting. “It’s rare to have a piece reach this far and be so positive…so that’s amazing to me.” But what really moves her is seeing other women praising their husbands the same way.

“So far the best part about this post is all the positive comments and wives tagging their husbands to thank them,” she continued. “The specific comments thanking their knights in shining armor for the ways they are loved are bringing me to tears.”