Posted on 05/07/2007 6:12:27 AM PDT by bedolido
A 52-year-old Greek mother has given birth to her two grandsons, after getting legal permission to be a surrogate mother for her daughter.
The woman, who was implanted with embryos from her daughter's eggs fertilised by her son-in-law, gave birth to twin boys in good health and weighing 2.5 kilograms, gynaecologist Charalambos Batakis said.
In July last year a Greek court gave permission for the woman to carry out a surrogate birth because her daughter was unable to carry a pregnancy to term due to health problems.
Greek law allows for surrogate mothers as long as the parties concerned reach an agreement with no financial compensation.
In principle, the surrogate mother should not be more than 50 years old, but in this case, the court agreed to an exception.
Bet there’s no complaining about mother in laws in that house. Well, until the twins become teens, lol.
as a mother of an adopted son..this is great for this family, how grateful we are for our family..though not bone of my bone, he is still miraculously my own...
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