'I wouldn't 交換（する） that moment for anything': Mum of three, 34, whose eggs have produced EIGHTEEN children, 述べるs having a surrogate baby for the second time

  • Melissa Holman, from the Gold Coast, has seen 18 babies born with her eggs
  • The mother-of-three has also been a surrogate for two women?
  • 'I was 27, I'd had a couple of kids, I didn't need my eggs anymore,' she said
  • Ms Holman spoke to FEMAIL about 存在 an egg 寄贈者 and surrogate
  • She feels passionately about this, because she said 'it could have been me'?

By Sophie Haslett For Daily Mail Australia

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It was while she was on a break as a young nurse that Melissa Holman first 遭遇（する）d just how difficult it can be for some women to become mothers.

After she heard another woman crying 負かす／撃墜する the hall because she was on her seventh failed IVF cycle, the Gold Coast woman said she remembers 'feeling like I wished I could help her'.

Eight years later, Ms Holman, now 34, has been a surrogate for two women, and also seen 18 babies born with her 寄贈者 eggs.

'I was 27, I'd had a couple of kids, I didn't need my eggs anymore,' Ms Holman told Daily Mail Australia of her first experience.

Melissa Holman (pictured left with a recent surrogate mother Kelly and her daughter) has been a surrogate for two women; she has seen 18 babies born with her donor eggs?

Melissa Holman (pictured left with a 最近の surrogate mother Kelly and her daughter) has been a surrogate for two women; she has seen 18 babies born with her 寄贈者 eggs?

The mother-of-three (pictured with her daughter, Emily) told FEMAIL:?'I was 27, I'd had a couple of kids, I didn't need my eggs anymore'

The mother-of-three (pictured with her daughter, Emily) told FEMAIL:?'I was 27, I'd had a couple of kids, I didn't need my eggs anymore'

Ms Holman was a surrogate for Teresa (both pictured with little baby, Nina) - and she said the moment she saw Nina with Teresa she was happy: 'I wouldn't swap that moment for anything'

Ms Holman was a surrogate for Teresa (both pictured with little baby, Nina) - and she said the moment she saw Nina with Teresa she was happy: 'I wouldn't 交換（する） that moment for anything'

に引き続いて on from her experience at the hospital, Ms Holman 設立する herself browsing the 地元の papers a couple of weeks later.

'I saw an 広告, and a couple looking for a compassionate egg 寄贈者. The 残り／休憩（する） is history,' she said.

Since 2009, and her first egg 寄付, Ms Holman has been a surrogate twice. She told FEMAIL she 設立する it 'hugely rewarding' on both occasions:

?By the time we got Nina, and I put her in her mother's 武器, she was crying with happiness. I wouldn't 交換（する） that moment for anything

'The first surrogacy was exhausting, both 肉体的に and emotionally. I had three miscarriages before I have gave birth?to a little girl for the mother.

'By the time we got Nina, and I put her in her mother's 武器, she was crying with happiness. I wouldn't 交換（する） that moment for anything.'

The second surrogacy took place just this year.

'A few weeks ago I gave birth to a baby boy. This is me 持つ／拘留するing him,' Ms Holman wrote in a moving Facebook 地位，任命する?on Tuesday.

'He was perfect - a screa ming newborn mess, 解除するd off my stomach and put gently into his mother's loving 武器.?

'Those 武器 were not 地雷. She's next to me in this picture. I'm a surrogate, and he was the second baby I placed in another mother's 武器.'

She said that she has found both of her surrogacy experiences 'hugely rewarding' (pictured with Teresa and baby Nina)

She said that she has 設立する both of her surrogacy experiences 'hugely rewarding' (pictured with Teresa and baby Nina)

Ms Holman (left) said she feels so passionately about surrogacy and egg donation because motherhood is so important to so many women (pictured with Teresa, her second surrogacy)

Ms Holman (left) said she feels so passionately about surrogacy and egg 寄付 because motherhood is so important to so many women (pictured with Teresa, her second surrogacy)

'These women might have been me, and yet for them to have a child - something which happened so naturally for me - it's such a struggle,' she told FEMAIL

'These women might have been me, and yet for them to have a child - something which happened so 自然に for me - it's such a struggle,' she told FEMAIL

Ms Holman said she feels so passionately about surrogacy and egg 寄付 because motherhood is so important to so many women.

'These women might have been me, and yet for them to have a child - something which happened so 自然に for me - it's such a struggle,' she told FEMAIL.

'When I see a baby in their new mother's 武器 I feel happiness, and almost an 増加するd happiness because I'm s o acutely aware of the mothers' struggles to reach that happiness.

'I'm a practical person at the end of the day, I've had my children. I walk past the nappy aisle in Woolworths and think I'm so glad I'm not there anymore.

'Someone needs something that I have; for me it's that simple.'

'When I see a baby in their new mother's arms I feel happiness, and almost an increased happiness because I'm so acutely aware of the mothers' struggles to reach that happiness,' Ms Holman told FEMAIL (pictured with three of her donor mothers)

'When I see a baby in their new mother's 武器 I feel happiness, and almost an 増加するd happiness because I'm so acutely aware of the mothers' struggles to reach that happiness,' Ms Holman told FEMAIL (pictured with three of her 寄贈者 mothers)

'I'm a practical person at the end of the day, I've had my children. I walk past the nappy aisle in Woolworths and think I'm so glad I'm not there anymore'

'I'm a practical person at the end of the day, I've had my children. I walk past the nappy aisle in Woolworths and think I'm so glad I'm not there anymore'

'Someone needs something that I have; for me it's that simple,' she said (pictured: one of Ms Holman's donor families)

'Someone needs something that I have; for me it's that simple,' she said (pictured: one of Ms Holman's 寄贈者 families)

Ms Holman said she always strikes up a 社債 with the women she 寄付するs to - either on the phone, 直面する to 直面する or over messages.

However, she also said that she has plenty going on in her own life and so is happy to leave them alone to be mothers once they have their babies:

'I do choose them, and they are women who might be my friends, but when you've done this a few times you get an instinct for someone and what type of person they are やめる quickly.?

'The fondness some might imagine I feel for the babies I feel for the mothers,' she said.

Ms Holman has 現在／一般に reached her 'family 限界' of egg 寄付s in Australia, but the 支配する is something she remains incredibly 熱烈な about.

'I've been doing this for やめる some years now, but that feeling of happiness when you 寄付する doesn't get old.

'I'd say to anyone who thinks they'd like to be an egg 寄贈者, talk to other women who have done it and don't jump in. If you understand the gift you're giving, it's 権利 for you.?

'Alone we can move 石／投石するs, and together we can move mountains.'

To follow Mel Holman on Facebook, you can click here. She also has a blog, which you can find here.

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