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Katherine was told by friends and colleagues that it “goes against nature.” Still, the 30-year-old was determined to give her mother a sixth child.


The loyal daughter would cease sexual relations with her husband and become artificially inseminated with her stepfather’s sperm to become her mother’s surrogate. Her mom, Jacky, acknowledged how unusual the situation was.

“As a nurse I’m very used to being matter-of-fact, but it was gross. Paul would go in the bathroom and do his business, and I would help him,” Jacky told SWNS. “Then I would put it in a syringe, run it through to Katherine who was lying on the bed, and she would inject it into herself.”


Needless to say, the process brought the family closer together. See Katherine and Jacky’s journey below.