Annie and Joby Johnston became parents in 2013 to quadruplets after years of trying. Two of their babies were carried and delivered by a surrogate mother, who also happens to be Annie’s sister, Chrissy.
When Annie Johnston and her husband, Joby, both 34 at the time, received a call from their doctors saying the latest round of fertility treatments had failed once again, it seemed like the fight was over.
But then Annie’s sister Chrissy decided to step up with a unique solution. With some research, Chrissy found that she would be able to act as her sisters’ surrogate mother, an option which she offered to Annie and Joby. After some thought, the couple decided to take Chrissy up on her offer, and Chrissy was inseminated with Annie’s fertilized eggs. After a few weeks, Chrissy was pregnant with twins.
Just when everything seemed to be taking a miraculous turn, the situation started to get even more blessed. According to fertility doctors, when a couple who struggles to conceive stops trying, they have a greater chance of conceiving. And that was exactly what happened to Annie and Joby. But wait, that’s not the best part – as it turned out, she, too, would be giving birth to twins.
In response to the news, Joby told the doctor that they were “ready for a new problem“.
“We haven’t been able to get pregnant for five years, so if the outcome of this is two twin pregnancies giving us quadruplets, bring it on. If the worst problem he can give us was now there would be four babies, we were ready.
As if their story was not amazing enough already, both sisters went into labor on the same day. Chrissy delivered first so Annie could be present to witness the birth of her two twin boys, Charles and Thomas. Then she went off to deliver the two twin girls, Grace and Hadley.
All four quadruplets – despite being born of two different women, were born extremely healthy.
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