O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE’S TOP TEN CHOICE – “The Story That Was Only The Beginning.” A POWERFUL, CHILLING, TRUE STORY ~ Inside the life of surrogate mother Susan Ring, a single mother of two, who learns upon her second journey (with the same intended parents as the first successful journey) at ten weeks she is pregnant with triplets. The parents don't want triplets and demand a selective reduction to twins.Susan respects their wishes and goes through a traumatic selective reduction to twins. Weeks later, they inform her they don't want the twins and order them to go to social services. Susan refuses to comply and prepares to fight for the twins in a California court with no biological ties. It is a story of hope, love and letting go. This honest memoir raises the challenging ethical questions that redefine motherhood, and what it means to be a mother in today’s complex world of infertility. It recognizes how far advanced science has come, and how the law is lagging far behind. Above all, it is a story for our times. Also Featured In --People Magazine, Surrogacy Nightmare Whose Babies Are They? March 14, 2016-O, The Oprah Magazine Four Mothers, Two Fathers, and an Army of Lawyers December, 2003-O, The Oprah Magazine Top 10 Choice as “One of the most talked-about stories” in O’s Ten Year History May, 2010 -Dr. OZ, 2016 –Dr. Phil 2010-DER SPIEGEL MAGAZINE, Germany 22/2008-PBS Bloodlines, Technology Hits Home 2002

The Unexpected Mother: A Surrogate Mother, Caught Between Science, the Law, and Humanity (Full Circle)

Biographies & Memoirs

Ring, Susan A

Community & Culture

Full Circle Press

IN THIS ASTONISHING follow up story from Book One, The Unexpected Mother, Susan Ring a single mother of two, is at a photo shoot for O, The Oprah Magazine in 2003 invited to share her story with the world. The photographer hands her a sign to hold in front of her body for the article. The sign reads, FOR RENT. What follows is a transformational story that is both heartbreaking and exhilarating. As Susan hurtles toward the confusion of what it means to be a surrogate mother and what might help her cope, she throws herself back into the surrogacy world where she feels most comfortable. She ends up spending an entire decade of her forties being a surrogate mother for other families. As with many love stories, things start to fall apart and she realizes surrogacy has become an obsession. Susan longs for a single why to her pregnancy past but finds many complex reasons. She forges ahead to find answers deep within herself and wants what is missing from her life. She finds what she never expected.

When Hope Becomes Life: A Five Time Surrogate Mother Shares Her Truth About Surrogacy (Full Circle)

Bowker

SUSAN RING DIED the day she gave birth to her eleventh child, giving her new husband, the love of her life, his first child, a daughter. She birthed two of her own, and eight surrogate children for five couples, making a family each time. After what started out as a normal C-section, her OBGYN made a fatal mistake obliterating her bladder, leaving her to bleed to death. Within moments she knew something wasn't right, there was nothing she could do. She glanced over at the new family she created, thought of her two older boys, and said goodbye, as she went on the journey of a lifetime. What everyone thought was the end, was really only the beginning.

FULL CIRCLE: A Full Circle Love Story of Life and Death

Self-Help

Death & Grief

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