Julie Bradford, 45, said she felt compelled to carry a child for her 21-year-old daughter, Jessica Jenkins, who could not give birth after suffering cervical cancer.<\/p>\n
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A surrogate usually carries a baby she is not genetically related to. The egg from the biological mother, which has already been fertilized with sperm through IVF, is then placed inside the surrogate\u2019s womb.<\/p>\n Jenkins was 18 when she had her eggs frozen before the cancer treatment began. Three years later, her mother has given birth to her healthy baby, Jack.<\/p>\n He was born weighing 6lb 10oz to Bradford, who is already a mother of three.<\/p>\n \u201cAny mother would do this for their child,\u201d<\/em> Bradford said.<\/p>\n \u201cIf cancer couldn\u2019t beat us, there was\u00a0 no way I wasn\u2019t having a baby for Jessica.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Jenkins and her husband Rees decided to pursue IVF earlier this year after she had been in remission since the summer of 2014.<\/p>\n She was diagnosed in 2013 after doctors initially told her she was too young to have cervical cancer.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n \u201cThey managed to take 21 eggs before I started chemo but only 10 survived, and they were made into embryos and grown for two weeks then frozen.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIn May this year we had an embryo defrosted and implanted into my mother\u2019s womb for her to be the little oven helping our Jelly Bean grow.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Jenkins, from Wales, was at her mother\u2019s bedside during the birth of her son.<\/p>\n \u201cMy mom is the most brave and amazing woman in the world. I love her so much for giving me my son,\u201d<\/em> she told the Mirror.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom a young age I longed to become a mother and our dream has come true. Jack is perfect in every way.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Doctors originally thought Jenkins had thrush when she told them she was experiencing bleeding and painful sex, but repeat visits revealed a tumor on her cervix.<\/p>\n The family have not ruled out having further children. They hope to use womb transplant technology, and Bradford has offered to donate her own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A woman whose daughter was left infertile by cancer treatment has given birth to her own grandson after acting as a surrogate. Julie Bradford, 45, said she felt compelled to carry a child for her 21-year-old daughter, Jessica Jenkins, who could not give birth after suffering cervical cancer. Read more A surrogate usually carries a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-283301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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