Surrogate mother who kept Down's syndrome baby after lesbian friends demanded she have an abortion urges parents not to 'lose hope'

Andrea Ott-Dahl (center left, with Keston and Delaney, and right, between Keston and Delaney) was devastated when doctors told her that the baby she was carrying for her lesbian friends would be born with severe disabilities.

The pregnant 34-year-old, her wife Keston, and their two friends listened in shock as they were told how the child had a five per cent chance of survival. If by some miracle the baby girl, already named Delaney, was born at all, she would be blind, autistic and have severe deformities, the doctors said. Andrea's friends told her to terminate the pregnancy, but she and Keston refused and made the decision to raise the girl themselves. Delaney was born with Down's syndrome in July 2013, but had none of the other medical issues doctors feared she might have. Her third birthday is just a few months away.