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Kayla Jones, 29 fromTexarkana, Arkansas, just wanted to start a family with her husband Cody. Unfortunately, she had undergone a partial hysterectomy aged just 17, which made her dream very difficult to realize, with grave pregnancy complications possible.
The solution was to find a surrogate mother. “My ovaries did not have to be removed so I am still able to have a child biologically mine, but I am unable to carry the child myself,” she told Love What Matters. “That’s why my husband and I had to use a surrogate pregnancy.”
Having tried unsuccessfully to find a suitable candidate, the couple decided to look a little closer to home. “My husband and I married in 2012 and my mother-in-law always joked about being our surrogate,” Kayla explained. “After a couple of our surrogate options did not work out, we started to take my mother-in-law more seriously.”
After a lot of tests, research and skeptical doctors, Cody’s mother Patty was cleared to carry the couple’s child. It didn’t work out the first time around. “We were devastated but decided to give it one more try,” she said. “In May 2017 we found out we were pregnant!”
7 months later, their baby boy Kross Allen Jones was born, delivered by C-section. “I am so amazed at this sweet miracle. Having him via surrogacy was not always easy, and definitely not easy for Patty, but having him here makes all the hard days worth it.”
Things have worked out so well, is there a temptation to go through the process again and get a brother or sister for Kross? “Right now it is hard to say if we will have any more, I would love a big family, but affording the process again will be tough,” Kayla told Bored Panda. “We have also discussed adoption in the future, but that is also expensive. We will just lay it in God’s hands and he will show us the way.”
The reactions to the family’s happy if a slightly unusual story has been interesting for Kayla. “For the most part we have had great reactions to our story,” she told us. “Some people find it ‘weird’ but if they understood the process it might not seem so weird to them.”
And finally, what about the hero of the day, Grandma Patty? “Patty is doing great! She starts back to work next week. She says she feels blessed to have been able to do the journey. She has been so great.” With Kross healthy and sleeping well, the story has a truly happy ending. “I would like to add that our whole family has been wonderful,” Kayla said to Bored Panda. “They financially and emotionally supported us. I love seeing Kross with all his grandparents.”
Scroll down to see Kayla, Cody, Patty, and little Kross’ pictures, and let us know what you think in the comments!
(h/t: Love What Matters)
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This would seem like an ordinary family photoshoot until you notice the signs
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Kayla and Cody had been searching for a surrogate mother with no success
Image credits: Kayla Jones
Until her mother-in-law, 50-year-old Patty Resecker, volunteered for the challenge
Image credits: Kayla Jones
“After much testing, my mother-in-law was cleared to carry our baby!”
Image credits: Helms Photography
Here is the fateful moment when the plan finally took off
Image credits: Kayla Jones
The next to know was the mother-in-law herself
Who, 7 months later, was expecting a healthy child
Image credits: Helms Photography
An occasion that they marked with a heartwarming photoshoot
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“My ovaries did not have to be removed so I am still able to have a child biologically mine, but I am unable to carry the child myself”
Image credits: Helms Photography
“My husband and I married in 2012 and my mother-in-law always joked about being our surrogate”
Image credits: Helms Photography
“After a couple of our surrogate options did not work out, we started to take my mother-in-law more seriously”
Image credits: Helms Photography
“In May 2017 we found out we were pregnant!”
Image credits: Helms Photography
“I am so amazed at this sweet miracle. Having him via surrogacy was not always easy, and definitely not easy for Patty, but having him here makes all the hard days worth it”
Image credits: Kayla Jones
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Devin Robinson 7 years ago
I support that the parents wanted a surrogate, but choosing the mother-in-law seems a bit weird to me...
fckucarol 7 years ago
ikr just like shes gonna be a grandmom? mom/grandma
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Alusair Alustriel 7 years ago
From one hand it strucks weird at first, but when you think about it... I'd rather havea family member do that for me, than a complete stranger whom despite what they write or say about themselves, I do not know. I get there are legal arrangements, but I'd still feel more secure if it was someone close to me. And also mind, that bearing a baby triggers all tons of emotions, inlcuding the "I wish this baby was mine, I do not part with it after all I went through" that might happen. This can cause all sort of difficult situations with a stranger in the future.
Jeni Leigh 7 years ago
My biggest concern would be my MIL later deciding that she has the right to butt in about how we raise the child, etc. That could get pretty ugly.
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Christine B. 7 years ago
I get it, I really do. When you want to have a biological baby, you'll make anything work. But ..... Can you imagine the problems that this will cause with the family. When the daughter in law decides that she wants to home school and the mother in law opposes, or when the MIL becomes and anti-vaxer and the DIL is pro, this could lead to the MIL feeling like she has more of a say in how to raise the child. I'm not even going to go into the fact that this might be an awkward conversation for the child to have with his/her parents in the future, which I'm sure they could work out, but since they made this so public, it's not going to be fun for the child to explain it to his/her friends who might see this archived on the internet. All that being said, if for some biological reason the mom was the ONLY option, I guess.... I get it? Question, are the parents going to be in the delivery room, because that is something a son can not unsee.
Zenozenobee 7 years ago
1)surrogate isn't the mother, the ovule didn't come from her so the comment about incest are gross. 2)kids want to know their history and in France there are a lot of people fighting to know who is the sperm donor that helped their parents or biological mum in the case of a childbirth under X. In this case there is no stranger to find and this will not remain a taboo in this familly or they wouldn't have make the photoshoot. 3) I would gladly surrogate for one of my sisters or cousins, I wouldn't feel "mother" of their baby, I would do it because I love them, this woman doesn"t have to be a possessive MIL. She is probably a good person loving her son. 4) I'm less confortable about the stranger surrogate. It looks like an uterus rental. Doesn't anyone remember about the people going to rent a Thaï woman uterus and not taking the child because his dawn syndrome? Using woman's poverty to make them carry your child sound really better to me than asking some relative that just want to help?
Monilip 7 years ago
1) she is baby's bother because she carried baby for 9 month. Baby used her body to grow. Baby used her blood. She is not genetic mother but she is a mother.
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Hari Onago 7 years ago
I mean this is lovely and very generous but I still feel weirded out by the fact it was her mother in law… Like Phoebe being a surrogate to her own brother and his wife.
Devin Robinson 7 years ago
I support that the parents wanted a surrogate, but choosing the mother-in-law seems a bit weird to me...
fckucarol 7 years ago
ikr just like shes gonna be a grandmom? mom/grandma
Load More Replies... Alusair Alustriel 7 years ago
From one hand it strucks weird at first, but when you think about it... I'd rather havea family member do that for me, than a complete stranger whom despite what they write or say about themselves, I do not know. I get there are legal arrangements, but I'd still feel more secure if it was someone close to me. And also mind, that bearing a baby triggers all tons of emotions, inlcuding the "I wish this baby was mine, I do not part with it after all I went through" that might happen. This can cause all sort of difficult situations with a stranger in the future.
Jeni Leigh 7 years ago
My biggest concern would be my MIL later deciding that she has the right to butt in about how we raise the child, etc. That could get pretty ugly.
Load More Replies... Christine B. 7 years ago
I get it, I really do. When you want to have a biological baby, you'll make anything work. But ..... Can you imagine the problems that this will cause with the family. When the daughter in law decides that she wants to home school and the mother in law opposes, or when the MIL becomes and anti-vaxer and the DIL is pro, this could lead to the MIL feeling like she has more of a say in how to raise the child. I'm not even going to go into the fact that this might be an awkward conversation for the child to have with his/her parents in the future, which I'm sure they could work out, but since they made this so public, it's not going to be fun for the child to explain it to his/her friends who might see this archived on the internet. All that being said, if for some biological reason the mom was the ONLY option, I guess.... I get it? Question, are the parents going to be in the delivery room, because that is something a son can not unsee.
Zenozenobee 7 years ago
1)surrogate isn't the mother, the ovule didn't come from her so the comment about incest are gross. 2)kids want to know their history and in France there are a lot of people fighting to know who is the sperm donor that helped their parents or biological mum in the case of a childbirth under X. In this case there is no stranger to find and this will not remain a taboo in this familly or they wouldn't have make the photoshoot. 3) I would gladly surrogate for one of my sisters or cousins, I wouldn't feel "mother" of their baby, I would do it because I love them, this woman doesn"t have to be a possessive MIL. She is probably a good person loving her son. 4) I'm less confortable about the stranger surrogate. It looks like an uterus rental. Doesn't anyone remember about the people going to rent a Thaï woman uterus and not taking the child because his dawn syndrome? Using woman's poverty to make them carry your child sound really better to me than asking some relative that just want to help?
Monilip 7 years ago
1) she is baby's bother because she carried baby for 9 month. Baby used her body to grow. Baby used her blood. She is not genetic mother but she is a mother.
Load More Replies... Hari Onago 7 years ago
I mean this is lovely and very generous but I still feel weirded out by the fact it was her mother in law… Like Phoebe being a surrogate to her own brother and his wife.
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