The Stork Finds A Way

Sometimes, Plan B works best!

Here's the story of a couple of couples who couldn't have babies, but helped each other have babies. 

Neva Benton has a friend named John Cardenas. Neva and John and their respective spouses were on vacation six years ago when the topic of wanting to start families came up.

Neva is married to a woman named Kelsey, so you can see that situation. And John is married to Amy, who couldn’t handle a pregnancy because her endometriosis resulted in a hysterectomy.

The plan was hatched, so to speak: “Just give us your sperm,” Neva said to John. “We’ll have a baby, and then we’ll just give you an egg. It’s not a big deal.”

At first, all four laughed, and then two years later, Neva brought the topic back around to the Cardenases and said she was totally serious.

So John donated sperm, and in 2020, Kelsey became pregnant through an insemination service. The Bentons had their in 2021 in Kansas. Then Kelsey acted as a surrogate for the Cardenases and gave birth to their child in July.

I needed a pencil and paper to figure this out, but those two kids are biological siblings, and the four parents plan to raise them all as one large family.

“We’re forever together,” Amy, 39, said in  The Washington Post. “It’s really beautiful and it’s really nice, and it just feels right.” 

From left, here are Neva and Kelsey Benton and Amy and John Cardenas after the birth of Ezri Cardenas in July.  

 

If this is all it takes to make four people parents when the other roads were blocked, I say, "Pass the Pampers!"