Couples ‘lining up’ to avail of surrogate pregnancy service

IRISH couples are “lining up” to avail of surrogacy pregnancies after it emerged that two sets of twins were born to surrogate mothers after fertility treatment at a well-known Dublin clinic.

It’s believed that these are the first surrogate pregnancies initiated at a clinic in this country — with large numbers of Irish couples previously travelling to Britain and the United States for help and paying up to e100,000 for the service.

One woman is now the proud mother of twin girls after her older sister offered to carry her babies. The 31-year-old woman couldn’t get pregnant as a rare syndrome meant she had no womb at birth. The babies, born last September, are now five months old. The clinic used the 31-year-old’s eggs and her husband’s sperm to create the embryos.