A Brighton woman is pregnant with her ninth and tenth children.
After serious complications while expecting her eighth child, Jill Hawkins vowed to stop being a surrogate mother.
But Miss Hawkins is due to give birth to twins in August, three weeks before her 48th birthday.
And despite previously vowing to stop having babies she is not planning to stop there.
The legal secretary, who last gave birth in 2010, wants babies 11 and 12 before she reaches 50.
She said: “My parents were concerned during the last pregnancy because it could have been life-threatening.
“But I have forgotten about the terrible bits.
“I just decided to go for it again. I find being pregnant very fulfilling.
“I’m a naturally giving person and to be able to give babies away is what I do.
“I was absolutely ecstatic when I found out I was pregnant with twins. It was like being pregnant for the first time again.”
She is 14 weeks pregnant with twins from frozen embryos produced by a 42-year-old teacher and his 40-year-old wife from Britain.
The couple have a nine-year-old daughter who was born naturally, but have been unable to have any more children because the woman’s body has rejected all subsequent embryos which have been conceived.
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