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I’m world’s most prolific surrogate and want my 16th baby aged 58 – docs fear I could die this time but I’m not worried

Published on May 05, 2025 at 08:08 PM

CAROLE HORLOCK has contacted doctors to try to have a 14th surrogate baby at the age of 58, admitting “I’m broody”;.

, who also has two daughters of her own, is ready to risk her life after getting in touch with experts in and Cyprus.

Portrait of Carole Horlock, the world's most prolific surrogate.
Carole Horlock hopes to carry one more child
In March 2008, triplets, one boy and two girls, were born after having IVF treatment
Photo of three women, two young girls and an older woman, sitting together in front of pink flowers. One girl has butterfly face paint.
Carole with her own kids, daughters Stephanie and Megan when they were younger

have previously warned that giving birth again could kill her, but she claims her body has never let her down.

In an exclusive interview she revealed: “I’m broody. Despite my age and giving birth to 15 — two of my own and 13 surrogate children — I still would love the feeling of growing one more baby inside of me and bringing life to this world.

“I have contacted fertility specialists in including Greece and Cyprus as a lot of British couples fly there for IVF and they have good results.

“Right from the first child I gave away I didn’t feel any regrets.”;

, who is the for having the most babies for other people, gave birth to her first surrogate baby — a boy —  at home in 1995.

She went on to have twin girls for the same couple in February 1997 and they continue to have a close relationship to this day.

‘Confident I’m fit enough’

Carole, from , , said: “While some embryos were implanted in me, meaning the baby wasn’t biologically mine, for many I used my own eggs.

“I don’t reveal which are biologically connected to me or not as it’s the right of the parents to share that information with their child.

“It doesn’t worry me that my genetic offspring are being brought up by someone else as they were very wanted and are loved by them.

“I have always felt there’s one more baby left in me.”;

Being the world’s most prolific surrogate, Carole revealed: “I get contacted by couples several times a year asking if I will carry their baby.

“I’ve not chosen one yet, as I want to get all the checks first. But I’m confident I’m fit and well enough.

“If there’s a chance of getting pregnant and having a healthy baby to help someone who can’t have a family of their own, why wouldn’t I?”;

However, this time, she will definitely use a donor egg.

She explained: “Because I’m older now, I’ll need some help with IVF and whatever I can as my eggs are too old to be viable so I’ll need to use donor eggs.”;

But she admits she has been warned by doctors of the risk of haemorrhage due to her age and the extraordinary number of she has already given birth to.

She said: “The surgeons that did my last caesarean were surprised at how quickly my uterus shrunk back. It’s only when that doesn’t happen that you can get complications.

Pregnant woman in pink shirt and black pants.
Carole pregnant with her 13th surrogacy child in 2012
Portrait of Dawn Brooke, the oldest woman to give birth naturally.
Dawn Brooke conceived naturally at the age of 59

“It’s normally around the fourth or fifth delivery that postpartum haemorrhage becomes a bigger risk. I’m way beyond those figures frankly. It’s never happened yet, and I don’t think it will.”;

The only time her life as a surrogate didn’t go to plan was when Carole had her ninth baby in 2004.

Controversially, she unknowingly gave away her and her husband’s son.

Carole said: “Most of the babies were my eggs but the difference was, that while my husband Paul and I always used protection, something unexpected happened — I’ll never call it a mistake.

“As when the couple did a DNA test following his birth it turned out he was Paul’s.

“There was a lot of soul searching. In the end, we agreed they could keep him.

“But there was a huge public backlash. I think about him all the time. He’s 20 now. He’s free to contact me if he ever wants to. I hope he will one day.”;

After that Paul, who is now 73, had a vasectomy so couldn’t strike twice.

She went on to give birth to , two girls and one boy, in 2008 using a new couple’s embryos, followed by a 13th baby in April 2013.

Carole said: “With that one, I had an emergency caesarean section and I was advised not to get pregnant again as there was a chance I might haemorrhage which could kill me.”;

But she has kept going. Carole was last pregnant in her early fifties but the failed as the embryo wasn’t viable.

But she was spurred back into action after being sent a video of one of Britain’s oldest mums Sandra Henderson, who gave birth at 59 in 2005.

The scars of being a mother are something to be proud of, not something to avoid.

Carole Horlock

Two others were older: Elizabeth Adeney of Cambridgeshire who gave birth aged 66 in 2009 and of Lewes, East , who

She said: “If a British mum gave birth at 66, there’s still hope for me.”;

Explaining why she would love to have another baby Carole said: “I love being pregnant, I love the feeling of a baby moving inside me.

“But, also, I love being involved in somebody’s dream coming true.

“With my last surrogacy I didn’t bond with the mum. I felt like a paid employee.

“That’s why I have wanted to do it again. It was devastating to have had three since.”; Carole has also slammed the culture of surrogate babies for convenience sake.

She said: “I would never name names, as for all we know they may have a secret medical condition, but I do feel is the greatest gift.

“Why would you pay someone to do something as important as having a child if you didn’t have to?

“The scars of being a mother are something to be proud of, not something to avoid.

‘My daughter is furious’

“So I do think surrogacy for convenience sake is wrong.”;

When she told her daughters Megan, 31, and Stephanie, 34, they asked her not to do it.

She said: “Megan, my youngest, is furious. She is against it. But ultimately, she has grown up with me being a surrogate and she knows how much it means to me.”;

And Carole said people’s perception has changed for the worse since she first did it.

She said: “Before people would say, ‘What an amazing thing to do’. Now it’s more a view of ‘Oh, you are selling your baby’. That is not what it is.

“Most men go, ‘S**t, I wish I had a womb’ when they hear there is up to £15,000 in expenses.

“But when you tell them about all of the hospital visits, scans, and checks — it’s a 24 hour job — as well as the inevitable toll on your body . . . you are not doing this for the .

“My reply is, ‘Would you have a baby for £15,000?’

“All say an unequivocal ‘no’.”;

BABY No1

Newborn baby boy sleeping in a blue blanket.
December 1995 – Carole’s first surrogate baby, a boy via UK surrogacy organisation Cots, was born

BABY No2 & 3

Twin baby girls in white dresses.
February 1997 – twin girls arrive to complete the first couple’s family, who Carole still visits

BABY No4

Newborn baby girl in white onesie.
March 1998 – Carole has a baby girl for a couple who had suffered the agony of multiple miscarriages

BABY No5

Sleeping baby girl in white outfit.
July 1999 – a baby girl for a couple who had one child with a different surrogate. They remain in touch

BABY No6

Photo of a baby girl in a pink outfit.
October 2000 – baby girl completes the family for the parents of baby No4

BABY No7

Newborn baby sleeping in a car.
January 2002 – a boy for a mum who had tried to have a baby for 23 years

BABY No8

Baby girl in white outfit lying on a light teal surface.
April 2003 – a girl was born for a couple whose previous surrogate kept the baby

BABY No9

Woman holding a baby.
June 2004 – a boy who turned out to be my partner’s. I still think of him

BABY No10, 11 & 12

Woman holding her newborn triplets.
March 2008 – triplets, one boy and two girls, were born after having IVF treatment

BABY No13

Sleeping baby in a tiger outfit.
April 2012 – a boy was my biggest baby ever, weighing 9lb 14oz

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