Surrogacy

A Woman Just Gave Birth To Her Own Granddaughter, & The Photos Are Honestly Amazing

Source Romper

When it comes to having a child, the logistics can get a bit complicated for gay couples — especially for gay men. A gestational carrier is needed, for one, assuming they’re not adopting. And while plenty of couples end up going with a surrogate they didn’t know prior to the pregnancy, the intended parents can be much more involved if a family member or friend is up for the job. However, it’s pretty rare for that person to be the mother of one half of the couple. As it turns out, a woman just gave birth to her own granddaughter — and the photos are honestly amazing.

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Surrogacy, UK

Grandmother, 55, Gives Birth to Her Own Granddaughter

Source The Epoch Times

A British woman gave birth to her own grand-daughter at the age of 55, after acting as a surrogate for her daughter who was born without a womb.

Emma Miles is legally the mother of her own granddaughter Evie, who was conceived by IVF.

Her daughter, Tracey Smith, 31, had known since the age of 15 that if she wanted her own child, she would need a surrogate. She had no womb, but still had ovaries and fallopian tubes.

Over the years, her mother had mentioned the possibility that she could act as a surrogate, but it wasn’t until Smith got married in 2016 that it became a serious prospect.

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Ireland, Surrogacy

Ireland – ‘DELIGHTED’  Westmeath mum-of-four’s joy over becoming surrogate for friends who stru

Source The Sun Ireland

A WESTMEATH mother-of-four has spoken of her joy in becoming a surrogate for close friends who struggled to conceived.

Becky Dore Loftus said while the surrogacy wasn’t on her bucket list, after talking to friends and considering it she couldn’t see a reason not to do it.

The Midlands mum from Killucan said she struggled with secondary infertility for six years before her second pregnancy after having her eldest child but following IVF, she went on to have twins and a fourth “surprise” child.

She said while she thought she was “definitely finished” after her fourth child was born, she changed her mind while talking with friends who were struggling to get pregnant.

She told Midlands 103: “We were away on a weekend with very very good friends of ours that we’ve known for over 20 years and we were aware that they couldn’t have children.

“We were speaking about our IVF with the couple and I thought, I’m not over the hill. I said I think I would consider [surrogacy], let’s all go away and have a think about it.”

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Ireland, Surrogacy

Ireland – Local election candidate tells of becoming surrogate for her friends

Source Irish Times

A Fine Gael local election candidate has spoken of how she decided to become a surrogate for her friends.

Becky Loftus Dore from Killucan, Co Westmeath, is a mother of four children, including twins conceived through IVF, and is 35 weeks pregnant with a boy.

The 42-year-old, who is standing in the Kinnegad electoral area in the local elections on May 24th, said the idea of becoming a surrogate was arrived at after talking to close friends about the difficulties they were encountering in having a child.

She sought advice through Facebook groups from women in the UK who had also been surrogates, and asked others who had gone through the experience what it was like to hand over a baby.

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Surrogacy

This 61-Year-Old Woman Just Gave Birth To Her Own Granddaughter

Source BuzzFeed NewsWhen Matthew Eledge and his husband, Elliot Dougherty, told Matthew’s mother, Cecile, that they were planning to start their family, Cecile thought fondly of her own parental journey. She’d loved being pregnant decades earlier with her three now-grown children.

“If you want me to be the gestational carrier,” she told Matthew, “I’d do it in a heartbeat.”

Matthew, 32, and Elliot, 29, appreciated the gesture, but, they thought, let’s be real — it’s not like that would ever happen. A postmenopausal 61-year-old couldn’t possibly be equipped to carry and give birth to a baby. Right?

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Canada, Surrogacy, UK

This English same-sex couple fathered twins who are half-siblings — and a Canadian surrogate helped them Social Sharing

Source CBC

With two kids under two, the Berney-Edwards household in southeast England is a busy one. There are toddlers running all over the place. One pokes his dad in the eye and laughs before accidentally hitting his sister with a toy vacuum cleaner, causing her to wail. It can be a bit chaotic.  

But Graeme and Simon Berney-Edwards wouldn’t have it any other way. As gay men, there was a time when they thought they could never have any of that.

Now, however, they have their twins, the result of an arrangement involving a Canadian surrogate and Canadian surrogacy laws they feel are more progressive than those on the books in the United Kingdom.

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Surrogacy

Why I’m Choosing to Be a Surrogate

Source Huffington Post

After the birth of my daughter, my first child, I felt something I never could have imagined existed. It’s different for everyone, that feeling you get when you hold your child in your arms for the first time. When you realize you are a parent and from that moment on, no matter how you choose to use that time, you are that baby’s parent forever.
I was overcome with the want and the need for every woman and man out there who wanted to be a parent to have the opportunity to feel that joy and to experience that gift. Now, don’t get me wrong — I’m a firm believer that children are a major responsibility and that the choice to have children shouldn’t be made lightly. And for those people who, for whatever reason, are unable to have a child the old-fashioned way, why can’t they be given the chance for a biological child?

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Surrogacy

Australia – WA’s discriminatory surrogacy laws should be reformed, review finds

Source QNews

Western Australia’s “outdated” surrogacy and reproductive technology laws discriminate against gay couples and should be changed, a review of the legislation has recommended.

In January last year, the state government announced an independent review of WA’s assisted reproductive technology and surrogacy legislation. The review’s report by Deakin University associate professor Sonia Allan was released last week and makes 122 recommendations.

Among them, the report found current legislation discriminated against people on the grounds of their sex and relationship status, contrary to Commonwealth law.

“Male same-sex couples can’t access assisted reproductive technology or surrogacy. There are also barriers for women who are facing impending fertility,” Dr Allan told ABC News.

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Surrogacy

Surrogacy: ‘I gave birth to my daughter’s baby

Source Wilcox Guardian

A 55-year-old woman has acted as a surrogate for her daughter and given birth to her child.
Tracey Smith has a condition which means she is unable to carry a baby.

So her mother Emma Miles, from Lampeter in Ceredigion, lost six stone (38 kg) to allow her to carry baby Evie.

She was born last month – and as a review takes place, Tracey has called for a change in the law to make it easier for her to be legally named as her daughter‘s mother.

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Surrogacy

Authors Don’t Understand How Surrogacy Works

Source Law.com

There are no forced abortions or rejections of imperfect babies, nor do carriers suppress desires to keep babies which are not theirs.

Phyllis Chesler and Susan L. Bender are genuinely concerned with the well-being of women and all people and I respect that.

Unfortunately, they have no idea how surrogacy really works. They consider it only in the abstract, unaware that some of the restraints they lobby for already exist.

Why do Chesler and Bender assume a gestational carrier is weak and powerless? She is no mere vessel. First and foremost, carriers do not give up the right to termination. If these authors ever read a surrogacy contract, they would be familiar with this.

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