A former surrogate came out of retirement at the age of 48 to carry a baby for the head of Radio 1 Aled Haydn Jones and his partner after "instantly bonding at an event. By the time Dawn Allen, 49, met Aled, 45, and his partner Emile Doxey, 43, in January 2019 she was working as a Surrogate Applications and Agreement Coordinator at Surrogacy UK.
Mum to Sam, 28, and Alex, 15, with her archivist’s assistant husband Matthew, 50, she relinquished her role as an active surrogate when she turned 43. But when a strong friendship developed between her and the two men, Dawn of Matlock, Derbyshire, decided to reprise her surrogate role and had a son for them when she was 48.
She said: “I did wonder, ‘Can I do this again? Am I too old?’ A lot of clinics won’t take a surrogate over 45, though most women can do it at select clinics until they’re 55.”
