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I'm super surrogate who's had 10 babies in 14 years… I love creating families but there's a question I'm always asked
SHE'S the super surrogate who has delivered ten babies in 14 years – but Becky Harris admits she still sobs every time she hands a child over.
Dubbed 'Supermum' by the families she helps, Becky says that despite the emotional toll she is still desperate for more, admitting: 'I'm still broody and I'll have another ten if I can'.
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Becky, 38, from Sudbury, Suffolk, carried her first surrogate child in 2011 after she split with her husband Rex.
She said: 'I first heard about surrogacy in my twenties as my sister-in-law Bex carried a baby for a childless couple.
'My split from Rex spurred me on to fulfil my dream of becoming a surrogate too, because family is everything to me and I've always wanted to bring that joy to others.'
The first couple she helped were unable to conceive, and she had their daughter in 2011.
'It broke my heart'
She said: 'After I handed her to them, I had a real sense of handing a baby back to its rightful parents.'
Becky went on to help six other families, including having siblings for one family.
She said: 'I always cry when I hand the babies over. But it is tears of happiness — it's such a special moment as I've helped to create a family. I think of it as a vocation.'
She admitted there is one question everyone asks her when they discover she's a surrogate.
She said: 'Everyone always wants to know whether I have done the deed with the dad or if I used a turkey baster. The answer to both is no!'
Unusually, Becky, who uses a syringe for home conceptions, claims she enjoys every pregnancy.
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She said: 'Mostly, I get pregnant first go. I just seem to think about it and I'm pregnant!
"People often think of pregnancy as morning sickness, mood swings and swollen ankles, but I get none of that. I breeze through every pregnancy.'
Her most recent birth was a little girl last year and she's already planning for baby number 12.
The world's most prolific surrogate is Carole Horlock from Colchester, Essex, who has had 13 surrogate babies as well as two daughters.
Becky said: 'I'm broody — going by NHS advice I can try again from next summer. I'll keep having beautiful babies for as long as I can.'
She said her fourth pregnancy was heartbreaking because she miscarried — a baby called Tinsel who was due at Christmas in 2013.
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She said: 'It broke my heart for the intended parents. We went on to have another baby, but we have never forgotten her.'
While Becky has handed over seven of her surrogate babies, she also kept two — Jensen, six, and Gray, three, after a gay father she'd helped agreed to be a donor so she could start her own blended family.
Jensen and Gray are brothers to Levi, 15, her son with ex-husband Rex, and she is planning to have another child with the same gay dad.
She said: 'Our children call him Papa, while his son calls me Aunty. We're the ultimate modern family.
'There's two gay dads, three babies, and a whole lot of love.'
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