Abby knew she wanted whoever carried her child to be someone she knew so she asked her friend Mariah Copeland (Camryn Grimes) for the use of her uterus. After a bit of initial shock, Mariah agreed to be Abby's surrogate and when Abby's other friend, Devon Hamilton (Bryton James), learned what was going on, he volunteered the use of his sperm. Abby informed Chance what was going on via FaceTime and they proceeded, with legal agreement in hand that Abby and Chance would be this baby's parents.
The pregnancy seemed to go smoothly until Mariah was kidnapped towards the end and the culprit turned out to be Abby's ex-husband, Stitch Rayburn (Sean Carrigan). After Stitch guiltily led Abby and Devon to Mariah, Stitch took off not to be seen since and Devon ended up delivering baby Dominic, who was officially named Dominic Philip Newman Abbott Chancellor. While Mariah was attached to the baby for a while, she finally accepted he belonged to Abby. As Abby was also still alone with no husband, she turned to Devon more and more for help and that's where things got even more complicated.
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