![Jessica Allen conceived when already pregnant.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180319102218im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/z/a/p/z/x/image.related.landscape.380x253.gzap2e.png/1509353614651.jpg)
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![Hour Vanny, left, who gave birth to a baby for an Australian man, with her sister-in-law Som Tha Satry, who gave birth ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20180319102218im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/x/d/j/k/image.related.landscape.300x200.gulq8z.png/1488108167783.jpg)
Surrogate babies born in Cambodia stuck in limbo waiting for visas to leave for Australia
Up to 10 surrogacy-born babies with Australian biological parents are stuck in legal limbo in Cambodia after a crackdown on commercial surrogacy there last year.
![Morgan Williams is carrying her sister Maggie Paxton's twins.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180319102218im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/u/7/1/a/8/image.related.landscape.300x200.gu713l.png/1486424903206.jpg)
This big sister is giving birth to her little sister's twins
Born 13 months apart, Morgan Williams and her sister, Maggie Paxton, grew up almost as close as twins.
![Antonietta Di Maggio, with her daughter, Claudia Luca.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180319102218im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/d/u/r/a/image.related.landscape.300x200.gtcwur.png/1481877261418.jpg)
Aussie grandma tells: 'I gave birth to my own grandson'
Claudia Luca, 31, was unable to conceive children naturally.
![Cambodian Lux Clinic posted a photo of a minutes-old baby girl on Facebook following Hour Vanny's cesarean section on ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20180319102218im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/x/p/w/0/image.related.landscape.300x200.gt5rdp.png/1481750891292.jpg)
Innocence lost in the barren lands of Asia's baby farmers
She is three months old now, living in a brand new double-storey house in a quiet street in a southern Melbourne suburb with her biological father.
![Surrogacy laws in Australia are more complex than in other countries.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180319102218im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/q/x/z/z/image.related.landscape.300x200.gt2rbb.png/1499102005130.jpg)
Surrogacy: Who can have your baby in Australia?
There are lots of stories about the rich and famous who've had to rely on surrogacy to have a child, Nicole Kidman, Sarah Jessica Parker and Elton John to name a few.
![A newborn baby at the Akanksha Clinic, in Anand, India which has now outlawed commercial surrogacy.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180319102218im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/l/7/5/9/1/image.related.landscape.300x200.gsxur1.png/1480304413024.jpg)
Cambodia calls on Australia to do more for surrogate mothers and babies in limbo
The Cambodian government has criticised Australia for failing to take some responsibility for an unfolding human tragedy as dozens of surrogate mothers carrying babies for Australian biological parents have gone into hiding.
![Australian nurse Tammy Davis-Charles is questioned by Cambodian police in November of last year.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180319102218im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/t/d/l/l/image.related.landscape.300x200.gsu37y.png/1500285962141.jpg)
Australian and Cambodian officials set for meeting over surrogacy crisis
As many as 70 babies carried by Cambodian women for Australian parents are caught up in the latest crackdown on commercial surrogacy.
![Nurse Tammy Davis-Charles after her arrest last year.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180319102218im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/t/d/m/7/image.related.landscape.300x200.gstd23.png/1503458280279.jpg)
Australian nurse and mum caught up in Cambodian surrogacy crackdown
An Australian nurse and fertility specialist running a surrogacy clinic in the Cambodian capital could face up to two years' jail.
![Cambodia has banned commercial surrogacy following similar action in India, Nepal and Thailand.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180319102218im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/h/y/p/r/image.related.landscape.300x200.gshx2x.png/1478584679652.jpg)
Cambodia bans commercial surrogacy after claims of 'human trading'
Cambodia's justice minister Ang Vong Vathana called for the ban, describing surrogacy as a form of "human trading".
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'Let's have a baby': sister's ultimate gift after years of IVF heartache
When she answered the late night phone call from her sister, Aimee Morrisby had no idea her life was about to change forever.
![Katie Murphy and her partner desperately want a child of their own.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180319102218im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/0/a/k/g/image.related.landscape.300x200.grywv2.png/1476696602393.jpg)
Katie's superannuation gamble is her last chance to have a baby
Katie Murphy and her partner Fergus always said that they wanted to have a family together. They just didn't know that they would need to wipe out Katie's superannuation to pay for it.
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