It happened in Greece, where a 67-year-old woman, who is already many years old to give birth to a child, she gave birth to her own granddaughter through surrogacy after offering it to her daughter, who could not gestate herself due to a rare disease in the uterus.
It is not the first time that a woman is a mother and grandmother at the same time, but it is about first case in the world of a surrogate mother of such an advanced age.
Your daughter had to undergo a hysterectomy, that is, a removal of the uterus, and her mother did not hesitate to offer her belly to gestate her baby, his own granddaughter. Before the operation, the ovules that were fertilized with the husband's sperm and implanted in the grandmother were removed using the technique of in vitro fertilization.
Age limit in Greece for in vitro fertilization is 50 years, but there are no limits established for cases of surrogacy. In Spain, on the other hand, the assisted reproduction law does not impose any restrictions so that women can be mothers at the age they want. It is the professionals themselves who set the limits and their general recommendation is that the 50s barrier is not exceeded, given that the risks passed at that age are high.
He made the decision to help his daughter without thinking twice and not caring about the opinions of others. She does not feel like a mother, but like a "double grandmother," said the surrogate mother.The pregnancy went well until in the 31st week of gestation, the surrogate mother suffered a rise in blood pressure, and had to give birth by caesarean section.
That places it undoubtedly among the most extraordinary cases of surrogacy and in the first in the world in which an older woman who gives birth to a baby through surrogacy and who is also her own granddaughter.
