Gay parents of quadruplets add another son to family

The Courier-Journal Kentucky January 10, 2004

Michael Meehan and Thomas Dysarz, the gay men who are parents of quadruplets born in July 2002, have added another child to their family, according to a manager at one of the Lexington salons the men own.

The boy was born in Lexington yesterday, salon manager Anthony Lewis said. Brooke Verity of Nicholasville is the baby's surrogate mother, as she also was for the quadruplets.

The quadruplets are the biological children of Meehan, while the new baby is Dysarz's biological child.

The men used Verity as a surrogate for both pregnancies because they wanted the children to be related. Both pregnancies were the result of in vitro fertilization.

Meehan and Dysarz originally planned to have two children — one fathered by Meehan, the other by Dysarz. In 2001, doctors implanted four fertilized eggs into Verity, hoping one would take. Instead, all four did, resulting in the births of three boys and one girl.

Four fertilized eggs were implanted for the latest pregnancy as well, Dysarz said in May.