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Surrogate Mom Carries A Grandchild
By: Louis J. Salome
The Atlanta Journal/The Atlanta Constitution
Sunday, April 28, 1996
SURROGATE MOM, 51, CARRIES A GRANDCHILD -- OR TWO
LONDON -- If all goes according to scientific plan and nature, before the year is out Beth Jones will give birth to her own grandchild -- maybe even grandchildren.
Jones, 51, is carrying two embryos created in a laboratory dish by in-vitro fertilization from ova provided by her daughter Suzanne, 21, and sperm from Suzanne's husband, Chris Langston, 23.
"I am doing it for Suzanne, for her and for no other reason," Jones told The Mail newspaper, which has bought exclusive rights to her story.
If she gives birth, Jones will become the first surrogate mother of her own grandchild in Britain, where the world's first test tube baby was born in 1978.
Fewer than half a dozen women in the world are believed to have become surrogate mothers of their own grandchildren. Only two surrogates in the United States are known to have given birth to their own grandchildren.
Under British law, Jones and her husband, Trevor, would remain the legal parents of the child until their daughter and son-in-law adopt the baby. Jones said she intends to give the baby to its genetic parents immediately after birth.
Jones said she decided to have the embryos implanted in her body because Suzanne was born without a womb and cannot bear children. The family lives in Darlington in northeast England.
Jones and her husband are already grandparents; one of their two other children has a 2-year-old daughter.
Jones went through a $5,350 in-vitro fertilization program, including taking hormone pills and injections to prepare her body to carry a fetus. Her doctor, John Webster, was on the medical team that assisted in the birth of Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby, in 1978.
Webster said Jones has had "two strongly positive pregnancy tests so far" but will not be considered "clinically pregnant" until physicians use a scan to detect a heartbeat. That won't be possible for another week or so.
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