A 61-year-old woman serving as the gestational surrogate for her son and his husband gave birth to her own granddaughter last week.
The woman, Cecile Eledge, delivered the nearly 6-pound baby, Uma Louise Dougherty-Eledge, at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha at 6:06 a.m. last Monday.
Matthew Eledge, left, his mother, Cecile, and his husband, Elliot Dougherty, greet baby Uma last week.“Nebraska is a bit more conservative, and we were hesitant to go into agencies, and had a bit of fear that maybe some things would hold us back being a gay couple,” Matthew Eledge said.“I just never hesitated,” she said. “I was just so excited to be able to be part of this adventure with them. … It was just unconditional love.”At first, her son was skeptical.
But according to doctors, she could. After they gave her a clean bill of health and the go-ahead, the whole family prepared for the pregnancy. Elliot Dougherty holds his newborn daughter, Uma, at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, with husband, Matthew Eledge, last week. Matthew's mother, Cecile, was the surrogate mother to her grandchild, which was conceived with sperm from Matthew Eledge and an egg from Dougherty's sister, Lea Yribe.Dougherty lost his own mother recently, but he’s found comfort in seeing how much Uma resembles his family.
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