A pair of Australian sisters with particularly fertile eggs are helping the dreams of couples unable to conceive on their own come to life.
Samara and Sarah Van Der Worp now have 22 biological children between them – having been inspired to ‘give back’ after the healthy birth of their own children.
‘I find out I have these really fantastic eggs, and I have this wonderful luck to have my own son eventually, and I wanted to give back,’ Samara told A Current Affair.
Samara (left) and Sarah (right) Van Der Worp are helping the dreams of couples unable to conceive on their own come to life by donating their fertile eggs
On discovering the giant demand for donor eggs, she began meeting up with couples and hearing their stories.
And soon, the ability to help couples complete their families seemed too important to pass off for her sister Sarah as well, who began donating six months later.
‘The whole process is kind of like online dating, you read these people’s ads and you message them and you get to know them,’ Sarah said.
While their eggs are either transferred to the hopeful mother or surrogate parent, both sisters enjoy remaining part of their donor childrens’ lives.
![Jillian (pictured) and her partner Alex were recipient parents for one of Sarah's eggs, which was carried by a surrogate mother, Christine - giving them baby girl, Olivia](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/01/13/47AD3DE500000578-0-image-a-43_1514814916629.jpg)
Jillian (pictured) and her partner Alex were recipient parents for one of Sarah’s eggs, which was carried by a surrogate mother, Christine – giving them baby girl, Olivia
‘It’s been a really nice surprise, that my recipients would actually want to keep in contact, because that’s not something I expected,’ Sarah said.
Jillian and Alex were recipient parents for one of Sarah’s eggs, which was carried by a surrogate mother, Christine.
And while Jillian initially had reservations about the kind of connection she would feel with her child – her fears vanished when the baby was finally born.
‘I was really worried she wasn’t biologically mine, will she love me, will she know I’m her mum?’.
![Paula Kavanagh (pictured) was in disbelief when after ten failed IVF treatments she finally gave birth to her son, through the donation of an egg from Samara](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/01/13/47AD308700000578-0-image-m-45_1514815047036.jpg)
Paula Kavanagh (pictured) was in disbelief when after ten failed IVF treatments she finally gave birth to her son, through the donation of an egg from Samara
‘When you hold her for the first time, and when she says the first ‘mum’ or ‘mummy’ there is no doubt,’ she said.
It was a similar story for Paula Kavanagh, who carried and delivered a child through one of use of Samara’s eggs.
‘I had tears streaming down my face, I was just in awe of him, I couldn’t believe that he was actually here, I had to keep poking him to see if he was there,’ she recalled.
Hopeful for a second child, Paula was unable to use another of Samara’s eggs, but that’s when Sarah stepped in and offered up one of her own.
The couple were understandably ecstatic for both of their children to be linked biologically – and to simultaneously be cousins and siblings.
![Jillian (left) initially had reservations about the kind of connection she would feel with her child - her fears vanished when the baby was finally born](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/01/13/47AD323900000578-0-image-m-47_1514815129425.jpg)
Jillian (left) initially had reservations about the kind of connection she would feel with her child – her fears vanished when the baby was finally born