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A set of triplets at the center of a major surrogacy case have been born in California and are being tended to in hospital. The three boys were born seven weeks premature on Monday night, according to a lawyer for Melissa Cook, the 47-year-old surrogate mother who refused to have an abortion at the request of the biological father, sparking a wide-reaching legal battle. The lawyer, Harold Cassidy, told Fox News that the babies were immediately taken from Cook following the birth after a judge granted the father full parental custody. The father, identified in court papers only as C.M.,...

It's quads - again 29may05 A QUEENSLAND woman is pregnant with quads for the second time in what is believed to be a world first. Dale Chalk, 26, is due to give birth to her second consecutive set of quads in December. Mrs Chalk and her husband Darren, 34, a security guard, became parents to quads last August using an anonymous sperm donor through the Queensland Fertility Group. They also have a daughter, Shelby, 2, conceived using the same donor. After the birth of her first set of quads – Ellie, Emma, Joseph and Samuel, who were born 13 weeks...