55-Year-Old Has Triplets for Her Daughter

[Placebo]

A 55-year-old woman acting as a surrogate for her daughter gave birth to triplets Tuesday.

Tina Cade delivered her own grandchildren — the two boys and one girl — by Caesarean section at Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital. She experienced "mild complications," which the hospital said is not uncommon for such surgery.

Cade carried the babies for her oldest daughter, Camille Hammond, who suffers from endometriosis, a condition that affects the lining of the uterus and makes it difficult to become pregnant.

Hammond and her husband, Jason, both doctors at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, had tried for four years to become pregnant. Last winter, Cade began hormone treatment to prepare her for pregnancy, and in the spring she was implanted with three test-tube embryos. All three survived.

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[merh]

1. Merry Christmas?

:shrug:

[mr_hat]

2. 55-year-old triplets?

[Placebo]

4. Love that movie...

Belleville rendezvous...

[TaleWgnDg]

3. And these "hormone treatments" are going to do what to these

three innocent females just born -- over their lifetime? Haven't "we" learned not to fool around w/ hormones? How much indicia does it take? And how stupid can folks get?


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[gardenista]

7. Do you have ANY idea what you are talking about? nt

[TaleWgnDg]

15. Now, that's quite an unfriendly post, mgdecombe . . .

Now, that's quite an unfriendly post, mgdecombe . . . perhaps, you could look up words in a dictionary? or try to do a tad bit of research regarding hormones? I'd strongly advise that instead of the kneejerk rhetoric . . .

e.g, try NEJM at: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/349/21/2081
(or some other competent medical peer review periodical on this subject matter)

then try a Latin dictionary for "indicia" . . .


edited to correct typo


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[LibertyorDeath]

5. Well if she had Delivered Vaginally

Then were talkin LOVE!!

C-section not so much :)

[LizW]

8. A c-section at age 55?

That's definitely love, in my book! I had one at age 34 and again at 37, and it hurt like hell both times! I hope grandma's got some good pain meds!

[LibertyorDeath]

12. I know but I've been waiting forever to work the word

Vaginally into a post without getting it locked. :evilgrin:

My Wife had 2 C-sections they are MAJOR Surgery with MAJOR PAIN!!

She is a braver sole than I says I.

[scarlett1]

6. Good for her

and her daughter. :toast:
Johns Hopkins is where the Reproductive Endocrinologist I went to studied for his fellowship as an RE.
Unfortunately We were unsuccessful:thumbsdown:

[Liberal Veteran]

9. I have no problem with this...

I think it's a wonderful thing she did for her daughter.

[wicket]

10. Amen to that

[gardenista]

11. I agree. Good for them all.

I kinda feel sorry for the men in that family. That five-some will be hard to say no to!

[Placebo]

13. I agree.

This can only be a good thing for their family.

[Blue_Tires]

14. oh yeah...since adoption is such a useless alternitive

/sarcasm

i know, i know..."but it's different when it's from YOUR DNA!"

[theHandpuppet]

16. No flames from this quarter...

I'm just surprised someone here had the chutzpah to verbalize the thought. Population control seems to be a taboo subject even here on DU when the human ego is involved. Adoption is not an alternative for folks who think their own DNA is so precious.

[Placebo]

17. My DNA is very precious...

thank you. :)

[DemBones DemBones]

18. I think adoption is great but from what I hear couples

almost have to take damaged babies to adopt an infant, or go to China and that's usually an older infant. Lots of people want to start with a young infant, preferably newborn, not adopt an older child, and very few are willing to take on a child born with an addiction or birth defect because of the emotional and financial cost to a family.

[NMDemDist2]

19. another reason anti-choice/reproductive slavery proponents should

put their $$ where their mouth is

I am willing to look at banning abortion when all the anti-choice folks have two adopted children in their household (addicted or birth challenged or not)

[Rowdyboy]

22. My sister and her husband (income level well under $40,000)

adopted a totally healthy newborn boy in 1987 and again in 1999. It took some work, and some luck, but it was well worth it.

[Megahurtz]

20. Weird! But,

:wtf:ever!!!

[Wilms]

21. They'd have better served humanity...

by picking up three strays at the pound.

...but, then, those unique genes of theirs (the ones that couldn't formulate a pregnancy) would be lost forever.

How would the world go on?:cry: