Surrogacy Pushing New Limits

Posted by Joanna Karpasea-Jones Dec 2, 2006

Last year, a 53 year old woman gave birth to her own granddaughter after being implanted with her daughter's eggs.

Her daughter was diagnosed at the age of 19 with a potientially fatal lung disease which prevents her from ever having any kind of surgery as it would kill her. Her heart may also give out if she is subjected to any kind of bodily pressure such as labour, so after years of childless heartache, her mother agreed to bear a child for her, and a beautiful baby girl, Annie Trinity was born by caesearean section, weighing 7lbs, 8ozs.

On reading about this I couldn't help but think what a wonderful form of surrogacy this is. The child will know and have a relationship with both the mother and surrogate.

I cannot help but wonder how many baby M cases could have been averted if more family members offered to help their infertile relatives?