Grandma’s triplets belong to daughter
NZPA-Reuter
Johannesburg A 48-year-old South African woman gave birth to her own grandchildren yesterday after serving as a surrogate mother for her daughter’s triplets — two boys and a glrL Officials at Johannesburg’s Park Lane Clinic said Pat Anthony’s caesarean delivery established medical history. They declined to say more after a British newspaper bought exclusive rights to the story. A hospital spokeswoman said grandmother
and babies were doing
well. Doctors implanted in Mrs Anthony the ova of her 25-year-old daughter Karen, whose uterus was removed following the birth of' her only son three years ago. The ova had been fertilised in a laboratory with the sperm of Karen’s husband, Alclno Ferreira-Jorge. The case was South Africa’s first surrogate motherhood and raised controversy over the decision to make a woman beyond normal childbearing age pregnant.
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