A 60-year-old British woman is one step closer to winning the right to use her late daughter's frozen eggs to get pregnant with her own grandchild, according to the BBC. The woman, whose name was not released, won an appeal for permission to take the eggs to a U.S. clinic in London after losing her initial case last year. Initially, U.K. fertility regulator, the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, said the woman couldn't access her daughter's stored eggs because she wasn't given full, written consent before her child died from bowel cancer in 2011. The daughter, who was 28, was the woman's only child.
- 6/30/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
Welcome to the world, baby Kelcey! At 3:02 p.m. on January 6, 54-year-old Tracey Thompson gave birth to her healthy 6 lb. 11oz. granddaughter - yes, you read that right, her own granddaughter! After facing years of infertility issues, Thompson's 28-year-old daughter, Kelley McKissack, turned to her post-menopausal mother in the hopes she would act as a surrogate for her and her husband, Aaron McKissack. Thompson was overjoyed that McKissack, from Wylie, Texas, asked her to be a part of the pregnancy. "It's amazing I was able to help my daughter have her child. Watching her hold her, being a mother is so natural to her,...
- 1/8/2016
- by Rose Minutaglio, @RoseMinutaglio
- PEOPLE.com
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