When Ria Pawlow gives birth in March, the baby will be the seventh she has brought into the world for another family. She has two children of her own but has spent the past eight years carrying babies — she calls them “lodgers” — for other couples.
“I had a boy and a girl and I knew that I was done having children for me and that I wanted to have children for other people,” said Pawlow, 40. “I love giving birth and I love the whole pregnancy experience. It’s amazing, but I don’t want 10 billion kids.”
Even nearly dying during her fifth surrogate birth — she needed intensive care and a transfusion of four litres of blood — has not put her off.
