He decided to carry a baby for his wife, Nancy, because she had a hysterectomy years ago. He kept his female reproductive organs and became pregnant in 2007 by artificial insemination. Beatie gave birth to a daughter, Susan Juliet Beatie, on July 3, 2008.
Barbara Walters announced on The View on November 11, 2008, that Beatie was pregnant with his second child together with his wife Nancy Beatie.4 He gave birth to a baby boy on June 9, 2009, via natural childbirth.5 In February 2010, various news sources reported that the couple is expecting a third child and that Thomas Beatie is pregnant again.6
Transgender Mr Beatie is shown cradling four-week-old Susan Juliette as she rests on a bed in the photo published on the front cover of the celebrity title People.
Wearing a white dress with purple and green detail and a large bow, the baby bears a striking resemblance to her father.
Susan Juliette was born at the St Charles Medical Center in Bend, Oregon on June 29 weighing 9lbs, 5oz, three months after news of her pioneering conception made headlines across the world.
"She's so precious, I just can't stop staring at her," Mr Beatie told the magazine, disclosing that the labour lasted 40 hours.
"When Susan finally came out, it was like in slow motion," he said. "I was full of wonder."
Mr Beatie, who was born a woman but is legally a man after undergoing partial sex change procedures ten years ago, fathered the child with sperm from an anonymous donor. He was able to do so because he had kept his reproductive organs.
His wife Nancy is breastfeeding the baby girl, using hormones and a breast pump to stimulate lactation.
- On July 24, 2008, a photo of Beatie and his newborn baby, Susan Juliette, accompanied an interview with Beatie in People Magazine. The photo was reportedly sold to the magazine for $300,000.9
- Beatie gave birth to his second child, a baby boy, on June 9, 2009, via natural child birth. His wife, Nancy, reportedly plans to breast feed the baby.5
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