One Good Turn Deserves Another

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." ~ Earl Nightingale

I was checking my Yahoo email account and, as so often happens with me, I got pulled into an article with the following headline:

Surrogate Mom Gives Birth to Baby Girl with Serious Birth Defects Despite Parents' Order to Abort: 'She Is Everything I Believed She Would Be

I read that article only to be attracted - while reading it - to the headline of another article on the same website. That headline was: 

Parents Shockingly Back Out on Surrogate Mom Pregnant With Twins: 'It's Your Problem Now'

I read with curiosity but then it ended up being interesting for a couple of different reason. 

For one thing, it says that the surrogate Susan Ring is 54 and gave birth to the twins towards the end of 2001. So that would put her around 39 years old when she was asked to carry a pregnancy! But then it says she went on to be a surrogate for three more families... which would lead me to believe she was acting as a surrogate well into her 40's. And further, the article says that she had her last child in 2012... that would be when she was 48!

But interesting on top of interesting... the final thing she says in the article is that she now is the one looking for a surrogate, "A lot of women know when they're done having babies and I never got that memo."

Good for her!