Surrogate grandmother feels fine after triplets

[AllardChardon]

Surrogate grandmother feels fine after triplets

CLEVELAND – An Ohio woman who gave birth to her own triplet grandchildren says she is feeling fine one month later.

Fifty-six-year-old Jaci (JA'-kee) Dalenberg of Wooster had to be closely monitored because of her age.

Dalenberg said Tuesday on ABC's "Good Morning America" that she was happy to serve as a surrogate to help her daughter.

The girls were delivered by Caesarean section on Oct. 11. They were more than two months premature and each weighed less than three pounds.

Daughter Kim Coseno says the babies are doing well.

The Cleveland Clinic says Dalenberg offered herself as a surrogate when Kim Coseno and her husband, Joe, were waiting to adopt. The couple used in vitro fertilization, and embryos were implanted in Dalenberg's uterus.



*** She is my age, for Christ's sake, and still menstruating. That is scary. Has anyone seen Baby Mama? Shades of Sigourney Weaver in one of her funniest roles!

 

[3113]

Dalenberg said Tuesday on ABC's "Good Morning America" that she was happy to serve as a surrogate to help her daughter.

Well, that's gonna make one hell of a story to tell the grandkids.

 

[AllardChardon]

Yeah, and is she gonna nurse the babies at all? What a trip.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Fifty-six is the new thirty?

 

[AllardChardon]

Really, in the old days, she would have been the great grandmother at 56. 18 begets18, who begets 18. 54 is the total there. These numbers are high. Becoming a mother at 16 was perfectly normal not that long ago and still happens more than society would like.

 

[PrincessErin]

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[Emerald_Dragon]

I am very disturbed at that story although it's not so much the woman's age. I have an issue with surrogacy to begin with and when it is within the family it makes me uneasy.

Oh well. there are worse things that you could do.

Why would there be a problem within the family? They didn't use her eggs so it was totally her daughters (or egg donors). She just carried the babies for them. A total act of love. I would do the same thing for my sisters if they needed it.

 

[purrrrrrr]

I think its a lovely thing to do for someone you care about .

 

[tickledkitty]

I don't see why this would be a problem. It was their eggs, their sperm. The grandmother was just an incubator. I'd probably do it for my daughter if I could.

As a matter of fact, wouldn't it be better within the family? That way, the surrogate wouldn't feel as if she was just giving the babies up.

Triplets though. Sheesh.

 

[AllardChardon]

I wonder if I could have done something like this, back when I was still menstruating. I was such a fierce protective mother right after birth, I doubt I could just hand over three babies that grew in my womb. And the milk. I must breast feed, as I did all my own, to get back in shape, my uterus I mean. Once breast feeding begins, the bonding becomes very intense. Women literally fall in love with their babies, sometimes to the exclusion of the father. I cannot imagine doing this. Emotionally, I would be a total mess, having to give up the babies my body nutured. She is a brave woman in my book.

 

[tickledkitty]

I wonder if I could have done something like this, back when I was still menstruating. I was such a fierce protective mother right after birth, I doubt I could just hand over three babies that grew in my womb. And the milk. I must breast feed, as I did all my own, to get back in shape, my uterus I mean. Once breast feeding begins, the bonding becomes very intense. Women literally fall in love with their babies, sometimes to the exclusion of the father. I cannot imagine doing this. Emotionally, I would be a total mess, having to give up the babies my body nutured. She is a brave woman in my book.

Really? Even if you knew all along that they didn't belong to you? I think it would be way different, knowing that. Also, I think breast feeding would be completely out of the question for those very reasons. I think I could do it. *nods*

 

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I doubt I could just hand over three babies that grew in my womb.

Heh. You would as soon as you realized that, at age 56, you were going to have to change, feed and soothe three screaming babies. I think your possessive instincts might well see reason at that point

 

[AllardChardon]

You are so right. Please take them would be my first thought at 3 am with all three crying to be changed and fed. LOL

I did my time. Four children over 14 years. I am glad I did it, glad that it is over and glad I cannot be asked to do it again with this body!

 

[SlickTony]

I don't see why this would be a problem. It was their eggs, their sperm. The grandmother was just an incubator. I'd probably do it for my daughter if I could.

As a matter of fact, wouldn't it be better within the family? That way, the surrogate wouldn't feel as if she was just giving the babies up.

Triplets though. Sheesh.

I would consider doing it for my daughter--however, she would not have a problem carrying, she would have a problem conceiving in the first place (PCOS). I've heard of grandmothers doing such before, the technology has been there for a while--don't they as a rule have to have a lot of hormonal treatments to do it? I'm not menstruating at my age--I haven't since '99. That's why I HATE it when my current meds get out of whack and I end up spotting. One of the advantages of being my age is not having to dick around with panty liners and peroxide.