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A 61-year-old Kristine Casey successfully delivered a boy child for her daughter.
Yes, you heard it right, it’s the grandmother, acted as a surrogate for her 35-year-old daughter, Sara Connell, and even went on to breastfeed her granddaughter.
The back-story.
In a report by Chicago Tribune, Sara Connell has been trying to have a baby since 2004. When she discovered she wasn’t ovulating, she underwent infertility treatment and got pregnant with twins. Unfortunately, her twins were delivered stillborn. Another attempt later ended with a miscarriage. The Connells had considered adoption, but desperately wanted a biological child of their own.
How did it happen?
Kristine Casey, Sara’s mother, offered to serve as surrogate. A few months later, the family discussed the idea with doctors. Kristine had to undergo a variety of tests to evaluate her medical health as well as mental well-being, which is required by Illinois law.
“It’s such a miracle,” says biological mom Sara Connell of Chicago. Her mom delivered Sara and her husband’s son Finnean Lee Connell by cesarean section. When the baby cried, “I lost it,” Sara said. And the doctor who delivered the baby says there wasn’t a dry eye in the room.
While successful childbirth for post-menopausal women is rare, numbers have been rising due to advances in IVF treatments.
Watch the report here:
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