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I call it a publicity stunt. :)

I couldn't imagine being a chef and surviving the first trimester. All the smells would do me in!

I am with Anon on this one.

Why would they need a publicity stunt, these seem to be two normal women who most likely both wanted to experience being pregnant.

Perhaps it's just the best time for both of them to add on to the family, would you say it was a publicity stunt if a celeb was having twins?

I think this sounds lovely.

Yes, Allison, I would. I don't think it is just coincidence that so many celebs are having multiples. It is in style right now.

It DOES sound lovely!

Two parents who love each other and want to share love with 2 new additions to their family? Wonderful!

By carrying each other's eggs, they are protecting each other's parental rights.  One is the biological mother, the other is the mother on the birth certificate.  I can see not wanting to have both women recovering from childbirth at the same time but presumably they have the means to get some extra help around the house.  Hooray for them!

By carrying each other's eggs, they are protecting each other's parental rights.  One is the biological mother, the other is the mother on the birth certificate.  I can see not wanting to have both women recovering from childbirth at the same time but presumably they have the means to get some extra help around the house.  Hooray for them!

I think it's such a good idea to carry each other's embryos too. There's just something sweet about it.

How very exciting!! Congrats to them!

How stupid.  They could have used IA, cheap and safe,  but went to the expense and risk to carry each other's embryos by using IVF (20K for each try).  Reads like a cheap romance novel.  Yuck!  What a couple of doofwads.  

By the way Larissa, they are not protecting each others parental rights.  By law the person who gives birth is the biological mother, not the egg donor.  They are just being attention hogs with money to burn.

IVF costs around 10K not 20K. I know, because I've priced it in the last year. If they've got the money, who are we to say how they spend it?  

I think one being the bio mother, one being the birth mother is actually nice.

I'm sure if challenged, a DNA test would prove that the non-birth mother was just as biologically related as the one that gave birth if they needed to prove it for any parental rights.

Yikes, Alice, you are awful judgemnetal and cynical with little information to base it on.  These are grown ups who made their own decisions about how to conceive/raise a family - have no idea how you made the jump to "attention hogs" or "doofwads".