A 51-Year-Old Woman Who Served As The Gestational Carrier For Her Daughter In The First Time Embryo Transfer

A 51-Year-Old Woman Who Served As The Gestational Carrier For Her Daughter In The First Time Embryo Transfer

Julie Loving, 51, delivered a healthy baby girl for her daughter  Breanna Lockwood in an Illinois hospital on Nov. 2 , 2020 with her daughter.The newborn, named Briar Juliette Lockwood, is the first child for Lockwood and her husband, Aaron, who are the baby’s biological parents.

Lockwood, a 29-year-old dental hygienist, and Aaron began trying for a baby almost immediately after they wed in 2016. After one year of trying naturally without success.

Nearly two years later, after multiple rounds of in vitro fertilization, multiple sᴜʀɢᴇʀɪᴇs and several ᴍɪsᴄᴀʀʀɪᴀɢᴇs, including a pregnancy with twins,  doctor told her that she would need to start considering sᴜʀʀᴏɢᴀᴄʏ because her uterus was unable to ᴡɪᴛʜsᴛᴀɴᴅ a pregnancy. She needed  a family member or friend to act as her gestational carrier. If she going through an agency can cost more than $100,000. Lockwood never thought her surrogate could be her 51-year-old mom, even though her mom was the first one  who suggested the idea to her daughter.

“I felt like health-wise I could do it and I had really easy pregnancies with my two kids.”Loving Lockwood’s mom said

Loving’s idea started to become a reality when she accompanied her daughter to an appointment with doctor for the first time. After that visit, Loving started a series of ᴛᴇsᴛs and was seen by five specialists, Loving could be a surrogate for her daughter. Loving had a successful embryo transfer on the first try. All the family was happy and nervours, because after loss  Lockwood underwent . Loving took a leave of absence from her job at a grocery store in order to try to stay as healthy as possible.Halfway through the nine-month pregnancy, Lockwood’s mom said it felt comparable to the pregnancies with her own kids. She had Fᴀᴛɪɢᴜᴇ, but the pregnancy was overall very mild and easy. Breanna’s mother delivered a healthy baby girl, Briar Juliette Lockwood, on November 2. The baby weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce.

A mother’s sacrifice knows no bounds. And now, new mom Breanna Lockwood knows exactly what that unconditional love feels like with the long-awaited arrival of her daughter. Lockwood shared the news with a photograph, welcoming her to the world and revealing her name, Briar Juliette Lockwood.

“Holding my daughter in my arms my heart is bursting. The feeling of how I would do absolutely anything needed for this child is radiating through me when I look at her, and reflects back on what my mom did for me. Every move and decision I make for my daughter, I’m finding the answers through how my mom raised me. The way she loves and the selflessness she exudes is pure, genuine and kind.”” Lockwood said

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