CHRISTIAN NEWS NETWORK/ Heather Clark
A 61-year-old woman has given birth after serving as a surrogate for her son, so he could have a child with his “husband.”
According to reports, Matthew Eledge, 32, and Elliot Dougherty, 29, had talked about in vitro fertilization (IVF) as an option. When Eledge’s mother, Cecile Eledge, then 59, offered to be the surrogate, they laughed at first.
“I told her, ‘Mom, you’re postmenopausal. … You can’t do that. Right?’” Eledge told NBC News.
“I thought if I could do it, I would do it,” his mother told BuzzFeed. “It was kind of a no-brainer.”
The elder Eledge went through a series of tests to see if she would be capable of carrying the child, including a stress test and Pap smear, and underwent estrogen treatments after being confirmed.
