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. :-)
DISGUSTING!!!! God will NOT be mocked.
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“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.”
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.....
Geez. I hope the grateful parents don’t stick Grandma with more than the usual amount of babysitting. She’s done more than enough!
Why do people go through this much trouble when there are SO many kids in the foster system who would love a forever family? I just don’t get.
You guys — she probably could not afford the $40K it would take for a surrogate, and Grandma was in good shape and offered to do it. The Reproductive Endocrinologist must have made Grandma jump through HOOPS of medical testing, mock cycling, etc. before he/she would let a woman over 60 carry the baby. If Jack LaLanne had a uterus at 60, he could have easily handled a pregnancy.
I know someone at 33 who came down with eclampsia during her baby’s birth and went into a coma for a week. She is recovering nicely but for a while did not even know she had a baby. She had total amnesia of her months before birth, and some permanent brain damage. It’s not only about age, and the Grandma probably would have been OK to die and give her daughter the joy of a child. But wonderful that all turned out well.
G-d bless. The pain of infertility is nothing I wish on anyone.