it All started when Cecile Eledges son Matthew Eledge and his husband Elliot Dougherty said that they wanted to start a family. Mother Cecile Eledge, who was then 59 years old, first began to joke that she could set up as a surrogate mother.
“Everybody just laughed,” says Cecile Eledge to the BBC.
then began to investigate the possibilities to have children, said a doctor there that started as a joke actually was a realistic option. Mother Cecile Eledge then had to undergo several tests before it was found that she was sufficiently healthy to bear a child.
– I am very mindful about my health, there was no reason whatsoever to doubt that I would be able to carry the child, says Cecile Eledge to the BBC. Photo: Ariel Panowicz
the Son’s semen was used, and of the son, man’s sister was the egg donor.
the daughter of Naomi Louise. Cecile Eledge tells the BBC that the most positive reactions after the birth, although her two other children were shocked at how everything could go to.
But when they got the whole picture as there was no other than that they supported the decision. This little girl will grow up in a loving family. This is the way it was meant to be, ” says Cecile Eledge.
might see ivf as a last resort, so we mean the couple that surrugatmödraskapet was their ”last hope” for a biological child.
“We always knew that we would need to be unique and think outside the box with this,” says son Matthew Eledge to the BBC.
