Posted on 02/12/2011 10:40:04 AM PST by Krankor
Almost 39 weeks ago, Kristine Casey set out on an unusual journey to help her daughter and answer a spiritual calling.
Her goal was achieved late Wednesday when she gave birth to her own grandson at age 61.
Casey, possibly the oldest women to give birth in Illinois, served as a surrogate for her daughter, Sara Connell, who had been trying for years to have a baby. Connell and her husband, Bill, are the biological parents of the child Casey carried, which grew from an embryo created from the Chicago couple's egg and sperm.
Crying and praying, Connell and her mother held hands as Finnean Lee Connell was delivered by cesarean section at 9:47 p.m.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Huxley would be proud. Brave New World, indeed
I’m 56 and in excellent shape and health but I don’t think I could put my body through that. It was hard enough at 19 when I had my daughter. :-)
“It was hard enough at 19...”
I had my last bio child at 36. There is no way I would/could do that again in my 60’s. Now, my grandmother had her last at 50 and her mother had her last at 49. At a certain point... enough is enough!
DISGUSTING!!!! God will NOT be mocked.
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I know, I’m 53 in good shape too. I can’t imagine going through that again! I just got my body and mind in the best shape of my life ( well, since my 30’s) after years of menopause hell.
“It also increase her chances of diabetes and high blood pressure- maybe even death.”
It also SUBSTANTIALLY increased the risk of her infant’s death. Here’s a study that studied maternal age and infant mortality finding “those born to mothers 40-49 years of age were at a much more elevated (69% higher) risk.” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3393358
This was the highest age category examined since the number of women delivering babies after age 50 is (appropriately) vanishingly small.
So this was a pretty poor decision all around and the daughter’s lucky she dodged a bullet. Wonder how she would have felt if her mom or the baby had died? It’s hard to believe she would have concluded “Well, it was a difficult decision, but I’d make it again.”
I can’t imagine a 60-something woman’s body producing enough hormone to sustain a pregnancy. That means she must have been popping tons of exogenous hormones. WTH are these people thinking? Ooops.....my bad - they WEREN’T thinking.
This is bizarre but since it is all in the family I am fine with it. The pregnant grandmother has a self interest in seeing more grandchildren and sacrificing her health and body for a new generation. Nothing wrong with that and goes on all the time where the old sacrifice for the young within their family.....
IVF is prohibited by the Catholic Church.
I thought that it was as it kills “unwanted” children.
Just like to know if this woman that so desperately wanted a baby will be staying home to raise him? I know so many woman that go through these great lengths to have children then continue their lives as if there is no interruption. They go back to a full-time job, enjoy their weekends away, or their weekly night out. You wonder if they just want a child as a possession or they really want to be a Mother?
As a mother, she must have gone through the acute disappointment, frustration, depression, guilt and anger of her own child trying time after time to conceive. Believe me, it rips your heart out. Most Grandmother’s would die without thinkng to protect their grandchildren. It seems very natural that this grandmother would give the gift of the use of her womb and body to bring the fullfillment of motherhood to her daughter and life to her grandchild. It seems a gift of God, in itself, that this was medically possible.
It seems a gift of God
Both Sarah and Hannah conceived because God wanted them to and he didn't use IVF.
They may not be out of the woods just yet.IIRC the incidence of Autism dramatically increases with the Mother’s age.Though with this being IVF and not her eggs that may not be valid in this case?
Geez. I hope the grateful parents don’t stick Grandma with more than the usual amount of babysitting. She’s done more than enough!
“DISGUSTING!!!! God will NOT be mocked.”
Yeah!
These people are almost as bad as the people who get blood transfusions or take antibiotics. Or asprin!
No vaccines for me!
If anyone gets sick, it’s because you are not faithful to Jesus, and deserve to die.
Modern medicine is a sin!
” thought that it was as it kills “unwanted” children.”
No, they can just use those later.
It’s the sin of masterbation that is the problem.
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