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First baby born via surrogate mother: Celebrated her 40th birthday this month, here's what she looks like today
Jill Bray, the world's first baby born via gestational surrogacy, celebrated her big 40th birthday
TL;DR
- Jill Bray, the first baby born through gestational surrogacy, celebrated her 40th birthday.
- Her mother, Sandy, had her fallopian tubes removed and was told she couldn't carry a pregnancy.
- The family explored options after the birth of the first IVF baby in England in 1978.
- Jill was born on April 13, 1986, via an emergency C-section after her mother's uterus ruptured; the baby born from that pregnancy died at two weeks old.
- Jill's father, Eliot, conceived the idea of surrogacy, initially called 'crazy' by Sandy.
- Jill, now a mother of three, is a brand director at Pvolve and lives in New York.
- She experienced some media attention in her first year but her mother desired privacy thereafter.