If you’ve ever deeply wanted to become a parent yet struggled to conceive, you probably know that the inability to have children can be devastating for couples who want kids so badly. However, sometimes a miracle happens when you least expect it and that’s exactly what happened to Joby and Annie Johnson, a young couple who desperately wanted children. Joby and Annie had been trying for more than five years to have a baby and they were nearly ready to give up. It seemed that no matter what they did, and regardless of how many expensive surgeries, treatments, and procedures they had, being parents just wasn’t in their cards.
To make matters more confusing, Annie’s doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with Annie that would keep her from conceiving. According to the doctors and Annie, she was perfectly healthy and the doctors said that “on paper, everything looked great.” However, it seemed that destiny had something completely different in mind for Joby and Annie Johnson. After their first in-vitro cycle failed, Annie’s twin sister stepped up to the plate and announced that she was going to help her sister have a baby. Chrissy made the astonishing offer to surrogate Annie and Joby’s baby for them. This isn’t an easy decision to make.
Keep in mind that surrogating a baby is just like having a baby. Surrogates go through the long months of pregnancy and all that it entailed. Chrissy already had children so she knew all about what pregnancy entailed. Any pregnancy can have lifelong implications and health issues because pregnancy is hard on a woman’s body. However, for Chrissy, she knew that she would do anything for her twin sister. Chrissy was heartbroken to see her sister feeling so helpless and going through what she was experiencing. With two beautiful sons of her own, Chrissy was eager to undergo surrogacy to help her sister fulfill her dream.
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Because Chrissy and her husband live only seven houses away from Joby and Annie, it made things even simpler. To Chrissy, it all made perfect sense. The two sisters had always been close and Annie gratefully accepted Chrissy’s offer of help. Annie’s doctor placed two of Annie and Joby’s embryos into Chrissy’s womb, and at the same time, he placed two embryos in Annie’s womb, hoping that out of the four embryos, something would click. Doing it this way, Annie and Joby had a 14% chance of ending up with one set of twins. What ended up happening, though, was that all four of the embryos remained viable.
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The doctor had amazing news: both Annie was pregnant with twin girls and Chrissy was pregnant with twin boys. A quadruple blessing was going to happen for this family. The two sisters gave birth on the same day via planned cesarean sections. Chrissy gave birth to the little boys first so that Annie could have the unique experience of watching her sons being born. Then she went to birth her little girls. These babies are all fraternal twins by birth and fraternal quadruplets by circumstance. Watch the video below.
