Hugo: the baby a gift of love from one woman to another

BABY Hugo does not know it yet, but he came into the world in one of the most unusual and wonderful of ways.

He was nurtured in the womb of a woman who was not his biological mother.

Before Hugo’s birth, Jess Junkeer and Fiona Clothier were just acquaintances, but they would soon share the most intimate experiences by becoming one of just a few dozen Victorians undertaking a local surrogacy arrangement.

It began four years ago, just months after Jess, now 30, married her husband Geoff.

She was exhausted and bloated, and losing weight and blood. Within a week of seeing her doctor she was confronting cervical cancer and surgery.

“Our life was turned upside down so quickly,” Jess said.

But the worst was yet to come. When she woke from surgery to take out the tumour, doctors told her that the cancer had spread so they had to remove her cervix ... Read More

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