Superfetation is so rare, there have been less than 15 reported cases.
When Jessica Allen delivered twins last year as a surrogate, she was unaware one of the babies was her own biological child.
In a personal column, the California mother recently wrote her story for the New York Post, claiming she was asked to pay US$18,000-$22,000 to get her biological son Malachi back in her custody.
“We’d already spent most of the money we earned from the surrogacy contract, but now we were apparently on the hook for thousands of dollars,” she wrote. “To my disgust, a caseworker from the agency lined up parents to adopt him and ‘absorb’ the money we owed the [couple]. Or, if that didn’t work out, the [couple was] thinking of putting [Malachi] up for adoption, as they were still his legal parents.”
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Path to surrogacy
Last year, the 31-year-old mother-of-two agreed to be a surrogate for a Chinese couple through the agency Omega Family Global for US$35,000. When an ultrasound revealed she was carrying twins, Allen thought both of the babies belonged to the couple.
In December 2016 when she gave birth, she said both children were quickly taken away, but later that night, the biological mother sent a photo to her of the “twins.” Allen quickly noticed something was off.
“His skin tone was much fairer than the other. One looked full Chinese, the other didn’t look full Chinese,” she told People. “It was very clear that they were not identical … but I didn’t ask questions.”
Weeks later, the mother had reached out to Allen again via text messaging, and told her one of the babies continued to look “different.”
“She told me that she was having doubts that one belongs to her,” she continued.
Allen and her husband eventually took a DNA test, and tests confirmed one of the babies was in fact Allen’s biological son. Although Allen was told by doctors not to have sex until she was confirmed to be pregnant (which she followed), it turns out she was ovulating early into the pregnancy.
“We had no idea how this came about and we had no idea how we were going to prepare for a child overnight. We just moved into a new house, we didn’t have any more money.”
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