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<h6><strong><span style="color: #4d3c3c;">Nebraska man and his husband become proud parents of a daughter, with an egg donated by his sister, and his own mother acting as the surrogate</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #4d3c3c;">Cecile Eledge became a mom and grandmother in one fell swoop after she agreed to be a surrogate for her son Matthew, 32, and his husband Elliot Dougherty, 29, who were considering IVF to start a family after they wed in 2015</span></strong></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4d3c3c;"><strong>Grandmother Eledge, 61, after she gave birth to her son&#8217;s baby claims it was &#8216;no different&#8217; to when she had her</strong> own <strong>children 30 years ago – and admits she didn&#8217;t think it was &#8216;that big a deal&#8217;</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4d3c3c;"><strong>Cecile from Nebraska, gave birth to granddaughter Uma in March</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4d3c3c;"><strong>Son Matthew, 32, and his husband Elliot, 29, were considering IVF to start family, when </strong><strong>Elliot&#8217;s sister Lea Yribe, 26, offered to donate her eggs and Cecile carried baby</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4d3c3c;"><strong>After doctors stated Cecile was fit as a 40-year-old, she fell pregnant on the first attempt although she had gone through the menopause 10 years earlier </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4d3c3c;"><strong>Cecile who admits publicity &#8216;surprised&#8217; her as she didn&#8217;t think gesture was &#8216;that big a deal&#8217;, </strong><strong>recalls the </strong><strong>&#8216;cool&#8217; moment she felt Uma kick as she held her other grandchild</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);"> <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-325465" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Elliot-Dougherty-and-baby-Uma-1.jpg" alt="Elliot Dougherty and baby Uma 1" width="689" height="355" />Her grand mother, dad and dad&#8217;s sister contributed to the DNA of baby Uma Dougherty-Eledge [photo] who made her appearance on March, 2019 in Omaha Nebraska</span></strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">A Nebraska woman who gave birth to her granddaughter in her sixties claimed it was &#8216;no different&#8217; to when she had her own children 30 years ago &#8211; and admitted she&#8217;s been surprised by the publicity it&#8217;s generated as she didn&#8217;t think it was &#8216;that big a deal&#8217;.<br />
Cecile Eledge, 61, became a mom and grandmother in one fell swoop after she agreed to be a surrogate for her son Matthew, 32, and his husband Elliot Dougherty, 29, who were considering IVF to start a family after they wed in 2015.<br />
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Elliot&#8217;s sister Lea Yribe, 26, offered to donate her eggs and then Cecile suggested she carried the baby.<br />
Despite having last given birth more than three decades ago &#8211; and going through the menopause 10 years ago &#8211; Cecile assured the couple that she &#8216;loved being pregnant&#8217;, and would &#8216;do it again in a heartbeat&#8217;.<br />
After going through a series of medical tests, doctors deemed Cecile had the &#8216;body of a 40-year-old&#8217; and she remarkably fell pregnant on the first attempt.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text);">On March 25, Cecile gave birth naturally to Uma Louise Dougherty-Eledge at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, weighing five pounds and 13 ounces.<br />
</span>Appearing on Good Morning Britain today, Cecile told hosts Kate Garroway and Richard Madeley her pregnancy wasn&#8217;t much different to what she&#8217;d experienced in the past.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text);">&#8216;The morning sickness was more intense,&#8217; she admitted. &#8216;It was funny because when I went to the doctor&#8217;s at the end they said, &#8220;Have you been having any contractions?&#8221; and I&#8217;m like, &#8220;I don’t think so,&#8221; but when we were in labour having the heavy contractions, I looked at my husband and was like, &#8220;Now I remember this!&#8221;<br />
</span>&#8216;Once we had Uma and I had my granddaughter, I was not expecting so much publicity; to be truthful I didn&#8217;t think it was that big of a deal &#8211; any mom would do this.&#8217;<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text);">Woman acts as a surrogate and gives birth to own grandchild.</span></p>
<h6><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone wp-image-325451" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Mathew-Eledge-left-Cecile-Eledge-centrerand-Elliot-Dougherty-right-6.jpg" alt="Mathew Eledge, [left], Cecile Eledge, [centrer],and Elliot Dougherty, [right] 6" width="712" height="372" />Cecile Eledge, 61, [centre] offered to be a surrogate for her son Matthew, [left] and his husband Elliot Dougherty, and gave birth to baby Uma [right] in March, 2019. The egg was donated by Matthew&#8217;s sister, Leah</span></strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Asked whether she worried about being able to &#8216;hand over&#8217; the child once she was born, Cecile said she never bothered by the feeling that this was her grandchild, rather than her daughter.<br />
&#8216;I was at the stage in my life when I no longer wanted children,&#8217; she explained.<br />
&#8216;One of the coolest moments was, I was holding my other grandchild when I was four or five months pregnant, and it was the first time I felt Uma kick, and I thought, wow, not many grandparents can say, &#8220;I&#8217;m holding my grandchild here on earth and I have my other grandchild in my womb&#8221;.<br />
&#8216;That was just a cool memory and a moment I got to have that not a lot of people get to cherish.&#8217;<br />
The trio revealed that Cecile offered to carry Matthew and Elliot&#8217;s baby over a family dinner one evening &#8211; and the couple thought she was joking.<br />
Matthew recalled: &#8216;We&#8217;re from Nebraska, so for a queer couple, adoption and foster care were a little bit of a path we weren&#8217;t quite ready to navigate, so we decided we wanted to go for IVF.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-325470" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Leah-Yribe-Elliot-Dougherty-Cecile-Eledge-and-Mathew-Eledhge-1.jpg" alt="Leah Yribe, Elliot Dougherty, Cecile Eledge and Mathew Eledhge 1" width="797" height="517" /><strong>Family Affair: L-R &#8211; Egg donor [Matthews&#8217; sister], Leah Yribe, his</strong> </span></span><strong style="color: var(--color-text);"><strong style="color: var(--color-text);">husband Elliot Dougherty, pregnant s</strong></strong><strong style="color: var(--color-text);">urrogate mom [Matthew&#8217;s mother], Cecile Eledge, and expectant dad, Mathew Eledge</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;When [Elliot&#8217;s] sister offered to donate her eggs, we were immediately excited by the option for a number of reasons, so we immediately said yes to that, then we were navigating how we would do the surrogacy; we had a conversation over family dinner and my mom volunteered.<br />
&#8216;At the time we thought it was a really kind gesture but we didn&#8217;t really think it was a realistic one. We laughed it off.<br />
&#8216;Then eventually when I was at the IVF clinic and talking different options I said it as a joke, off the cuff, and [the nurse] didn&#8217;t laugh so much and said, &#8220;Well that actually is a possibility,&#8221; so she asked if she was healthy and if she had a uterus, and so we started there.<br />
&#8216;From then on my mom had to go through a series of medical tests to see what her health would be like and she passed each test with flying colours.&#8217;</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-325472" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Mathew-Eledge-left-Elliot-Dougherty-and-baby-Uma-2.jpg" alt="Mathew Eledge, [left], Elliot Dougherty and baby Uma 2" width="948" height="529" /></strong><strong>Matthew admitted that, despite feeling a &#8216;huge euphoric rush&#8217; when Uma was born which made him want &#8216;a billion children&#8217;, five months with his crying newborn Uma, [photo], has changed his mind</strong></span></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Cecile underwent a Pap smear, blood tests, cholesterol tests, stress tests, a mammogram and an ultrasound, all of which she passed easily by January 2018.<br />
Additionally, the grandmother runs five miles every other day, is a regular cyclist and enjoys spending an hour on the elliptical machine, reported PEOPLE.<br />
Cecile then underwent several hormone treatments. She began using estrogen in May 2018 to get her post-menopausal body to kick-start a menstrual cycle.<br />
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Using Matthew&#8217;s sperm, doctors implanted several fertilised eggs in Cecile&#8217;s uterus.<br />
&#8216;I loved being pregnant, and I knew I was healthy enough to do it, and [the offer] was something that naturally came out,&#8217; Cecile said speaking to ITV this morning.<br />
&#8216;After I said it you couldn&#8217;t take it back, it was too late, the deal was on the table!&#8217;</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone wp-image-325462" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Mathew-Eledge-left-Cecile-Eledge-centrerand-Elliot-Dougherty-right-8.jpg" alt="Mathew Eledge, [left], Cecile Eledge, [centrer],and Elliot Dougherty, [right] 8.JPG" width="1014" height="648" /><strong>Stay close: Matthew [left[, said while Cecile has refrained from interfering in their parenting of Uma, there is a &#8216;silent contract&#8217; that they don&#8217;t move away</strong></span></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Matthew said his mother has refrained from interfering in their parenting of Uma, but said there is a &#8216;silent contract&#8217; that they don&#8217;t move away.<br />
&#8216;Beyond that, she&#8217;s the type of individual that wanted to help us build a family and it was truly a selfless act,&#8217; he explained.<br />
Asked whether they&#8217;d experienced any negative reactions, Cecile said they kept their arrangement very private in the beginning, not because they were &#8217;embarrassed or ashamed&#8217;, but because they weren&#8217;t sure what the outcome was going to be.<br />
&#8216;We were going outside the medical books, we weren’t doing the normal thing,&#8217; Cecilia observed.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-325448" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Mathew-Eledge-left-Cecile-Eledge-centrerand-Elliot-Dougherty-right-appear-on-ITV-5.jpg" alt="Mathew Eledge, [left], Cecile Eledge, [centrer],and Elliot Dougherty, [right] appear on ITV 5" width="754" height="379" /><strong>Mathew, Cecile, Elliot and baby Uma made an appearance on Good Morning Britain today. Cecile told hosts Kate Garroway and Richard Madeley her pregnancy wasn&#8217;t much different to what she&#8217;d experienced in the past</strong></span></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;High risk is usually around 40-45; you&#8217;re talking 20-something years past that, so we were very conservative during this whole process.&#8217;<br />
Uma is fed with breast milk donated by one of the couple&#8217;s friends and Matthew stays home while Elliot works. Every Friday, Cecile and her husband, Kirk, babysit.</p>
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&#8216;I&#8217;m like, I&#8217;m done,&#8217; he joked.</p>
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