In California, Jessica Allen, a mother of three who is 31 years old, decided to become a surrogate in 2016. She already has a lovely family of her own. She, therefore, made the decision that she wanted to make other couples happy who either weren’t able to or didn’t want to conceive on their own. J successfully had an embryo implanted after deciding to become a surrogate mother and match with another couple, but a weird event occurred a few weeks later that would change her life forever.
Jessica and her partner Wardell pair up with the Chinese Liu family, and Jessica was to get $30,000 in exchange for having their child. This would enable her to save money for a new home while also assisting another couple to have a kid.
Discovery Of Twins
After undergoing IVF procedures, the surrogate mother discovered she was carrying Liu’s child. or even better, infants. They were twins. The family for whom she was a surrogate mother, had already increased her fee when they discovered they would be having two children rather than just one. Allen happily carried out the surrogacy and gave birth to both children by c-section on December 12, 2016, at Riverside Community Hospital. The twins were identical, and the physicians said the embryo split in two. Jessica delivered her babies by C-section nine months later, but before she could even see them, they have whisked away (even though she was supposed to have an hour with them before saying one final goodbye).
Conduction of DNA Test
The following day, Mrs. Liu emailed Jessica a picture of the twins, but Jessica was struck by how unlike they were. The Lius opted to conduct a DNA test as their anxiety about how differently the babies seemed intensified. Surprisingly, the results of the test revealed that while one of the infants was biologically a member of the Lius family, the other infant belonged to Jessica and Wardell. Jessica, the surrogate mother became naturally pregnant with her child after becoming pregnant through IVF with Liu’s embryo due to the highly unusual pregnancy condition known as superfetation.
Allens’s Realization of Twin’s Dissimilarity
Allen talked openly about the day she gave birth to what she believed to be a pair of identical twins and the several twists and issues that followed in an interview with the New York Post. “I was permitted an hour with the infants before discharging them from the maternity unit,” Allen said. “That was included in my $35,000 contract.” She was only shown a picture of the babies because the biological parents for whom she had served as a surrogate mother did not permit it to happen. Allen then realized how dissimilar they appeared. It came out that their disparities went well beyond just how they looked. According to The New York Post, the two infants were not identical twins but rather two individuals with different ancestries. While the other child was biologically related to the other couple, one was born to the surrogate mother.
Additional Compensation and Adoption
When dating service Omega approached Jessica, the surrogate mother, she got to know that Max (the child), she and Wardell had together, was being cared for by someone else because the Lius did not want anything to do with him. The Lius additionally anticipated receiving between $18,000 and $22,000 in compensation. Jessica and her boyfriend prioritized getting Max back even though they had already spent most of the money they received from the surrogacy arrangement. The Lius were still his legal parents, but an agency caseworker had already lined up parents to adopt him and ‘absorb’ the money they owed the Lius.
The organization also claimed that Jessica and Wardell owed them an additional $7,000 for the costs they incurred dealing with the bureaucracy and caring for their son, in addition to the $3,000 they spent on legal representation. The agency finally paid Lius’s ‘fee’ in full, and Omega’s CEO declared that the business would probably give Lius some compensation for its resources.
Wrapping Up
Therefore, on February 5, their kid, whom they called Malachi, was given to Jessica and Wardell. Whenever she was granted custody of her kid again, Allen became quite emotional. She uttered: “I began embracing and kissing my son because the situation was very emotional. Malachi has been with us for about nine months and is doing well. He is gorgeous. He’s in good health, and his personality cracks me up. He is learning to walk and is beginning to communicate, and he adores his big brothers.” Jessica and Wardell cherish Malachi dearly even though they had no intention of growing their family so soon. Jessica urged other women considering surrogacy to take her experience to heart in a piece for the New York Post, but she’s glad that something positive came out of this ordeal.
According to Legalize Surrogacy, the lawsuit stated that Jessica, Wardell, and most crucially Malachi were left to deal with the long-lasting effects of the defendants’ wrongdoing against them.
