Surrogacy is a new profession

45-year old Liz Stringer, a single mother of two children, a cook from north Wales (Great Britain) considers herself a professional surrogate. She has given away five babies. Liz admits she's addicted to the emotional rush she feels in that instant when the baby is handed to its parents for the first time.

She's undergone eight IVF cycles and suffered sciatica, morning sickness and the agonies of five labors - not to mention having to cope with the changes the pregnancies have wrought on her body. Despite spending nearly four years of her life pregnant, Liz gets no payment for her services, although each time she has received an undisclosed sum for expenses to cover loss of earnings, travel, childcare and maternity clothing.

So why do it? Liz's desire to be a surrogate started when she was just 20. A friend was diagnosed with cervical cancer and told she would be left infertile.

"She was devastated, and I witnessed her grief first hand," Liz says. "I vowed then that once I'd had children of my own, I'd help a childless woman have a baby".

She never forgot her vow. After she'd had her two daughters, and her marriage had broken down, she joined a surrogacy group and soon afterwards hooked up with a childless couple. Liz is planning to be a surrogate for another several years till she enjoys good health.

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