This 61-Year-Old Woman Gave Birth but Surrendered the Baby for This Shocking Reason

Everyone knows that it takes a village to raise a child – but what about when it takes a village just to bring the child into the world?

Pregnant Grandma?

In Omaha, Nebraska, a healthy baby girl named Uma Louise Dougherty-Eledge was born to a woman named Cecile Reynek Eledge. Cecile was also Uma’s biological grandmother. How was this possible?

Making A Choice

Cecile, at the age of sixty-one, had carried three children of her own prior to Uma. She said she had loved being pregnant decades earlier. Cecile’s children were now grown—including her son, Matthew Eledge, who desperately wanted a child with his partner…