This is a wonderful story of a successful IVF that also demonstrates the love and sacrifice of family.
After delivering stillborn twins and then having a miscarriage, Mr. & Mrs. Connell, a couple in Chicago, Illinois determined with their doctors that the best option for them to have their own biological child was to use a surrogate gestational carrier. Driven by her own experience of joy in having her own children, Mrs. Connell’s 61 year old mother, Mrs. Casey, agreed to be the gestational carrier, as long as the doctors were able to assure a high probability of her body accepting the IVF treatment.
Since Mrs. Casey had gone through menopause 10 years before, she was administered hormone treatments in order to prepare her uterus to accept a pregnancy. She underwent IVF, being implanted with an embryo created by her daughter’s egg and son-in-law’s sperm. The first IVF treatment did not take, but she got pregnant as a result of the second.
Mrs. Casey had a healthy pregnancy and delivered her grandson via cesarean section with no complications. She experienced some minor health complications after the birth, but recovered quickly.
Our congratulations and best wishes to the Casey and Connell families!
