Woman, 50, gives birth to her own grandson as surrogate mother
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An Arkansas woman in menopause carried a baby in her womb for her daughter-in-law.Kayla Jones, 29, first discovered she would not be able to carry her own children after her first OB-GYN appointment when she was 17. Doctors found a benign tumor on her uterus which forced Jones to have a partial hysterectomy."When you're 17, it doesn't hit you as much that you can't have children," she told InsideEdition.com. "You've got prom and dates...what kind of cars people are driving, you know, that kind of teenager stuff. Then you fall in love and get married and say, 'OK, I'm ready to start a family,' and it all comes back around and hits you again."Once Jones and her husband, Cody, got married, they began the process of exploring adoption and surrogacy. After a series of letdowns, Cody's mother Patty Resecker stepped in.Having given birth to three healthy children of her own, Resecker thought she would be the perfect person to carry Kayla and Cody's child."It's their baby; I was just the valet," she said. https://www.facebook.com/CreatingBabyJones/photos/a.1120423898076710.1073741828.1116965735089193/1457153591070404/?type=3&width=500[/facebook]Despite being in menopause, Resecker was not deterred. After doing some research, they discovered that hormone injections during the first trimester would keep both Resecker and the unborn baby in good health. Soon after, the grandma-to-be became pregnant through IVF.Jones, who is also a nurse, helped give Resecker her daily injections."One of the benefits of having someone very close to you carry is I could go over there almost every day if I wanted to and talk to Kross and feel him kick, and feel really involved," Jones said.A very healthy baby Kross was born on Dec. 30, 2017."Mother-in-laws tend to overstep, but Patty is definitely not like that," Jones said. "She's been so great making me feel like he's mine, even though I didn't give birth to him."
An Arkansas woman in menopause carried a baby in her womb for her daughter-in-law.
Kayla Jones, 29, first discovered she would not be able to carry her own children after her first OB-GYN appointment when she was 17. Doctors found a benign tumor on her uterus which forced Jones to have a partial hysterectomy.
"When you're 17, it doesn't hit you as much that you can't have children," she told InsideEdition.com. "You've got prom and dates...what kind of cars people are driving, you know, that kind of teenager stuff. Then you fall in love and get married and say, 'OK, I'm ready to start a family,' and it all comes back around and hits you again."
Once Jones and her husband, Cody, got married, they began the process of exploring adoption and surrogacy. After a series of letdowns, Cody's mother Patty Resecker stepped in.
Having given birth to three healthy children of her own, Resecker thought she would be the perfect person to carry Kayla and Cody's child.
"It's their baby; I was just the valet," she said.
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Despite being in menopause, Resecker was not deterred. After doing some research, they discovered that hormone injections during the first trimester would keep both Resecker and the unborn baby in good health. Soon after, the grandma-to-be became pregnant through IVF.
Jones, who is also a nurse, helped give Resecker her daily injections.
"One of the benefits of having someone very close to you carry is I could go over there almost every day if I wanted to and talk to Kross and feel him kick, and feel really involved," Jones said.
A very healthy baby Kross was born on Dec. 30, 2017.
"Mother-in-laws tend to overstep, but Patty is definitely not like that," Jones said. "She's been so great making me feel like he's mine, even though I didn't give birth to him."