Inspirational
A 70-year-old woman gives birth to a baby, but then her husband sees something strange
“70-year-old woman gives birth to a baby, but then her husband sees something strange. It’s almost impossible to believe, but it’s really true. This 70-year-old woman gave birth to her second child more than 40 years after her first.
Last Friday, she gave birth to her second child; it’s a miracle that this still could happen. She had the baby in her arms, but suddenly her husband saw something strange. So get comfortable and stay until the end to find out this story.
On March 25th, 70-year-old Laura Palmer gave birth to her own granddaughter. The baby was created through in vitro fertilization and appeared perfectly healthy. Her daughter was unable to have children of her own due to complications, but her desire to have children was too great to ignore. So Laura decided to help her daughter.
It was a complicated treatment; inserting her daughter’s egg and her son-in-law’s seed was not the problem. But, of course, Laura was already a woman of a decent age, and this posed potential danger and quite a few complications. However, it seemed to have ended well, but still, something was not quite right.
Laura went through a series of tests before getting permission from the doctors. Her pelvic muscles were tested, the flexibility of her skin, and, of course, the condition of her uterus, as this was where her baby would be for the next nine months. It was amazing; the doctors were stunned when they received the results. Laura Palmer’s uterus may have been 70 years her senior, but it looked more like that of an energetic and fit 25-year-old woman. Nothing could stand in the way of a healthy pregnancy. But then, why did it all go wrong in the end, the doctors wondered?
The time to give birth had come; the baby was going to be a boy, they already knew that. And during pregnancy, numerous tests were done to keep a close eye on the child’s health. Still, childbirth at this age was always exciting and a little scary. “You never know what could go wrong at a time like this,” said one doctor, especially since Laura Palmer was over 70 years old. She would officially become the oldest mother in the state of Texas. “It’s now!” the doctor shouted, and the delivery began.
The delivery went smoothly; they decided to do a C-section at the last minute; this was better for both grandmother and grandchild. Because of this, the child was born early. Laura held the baby in her arms and then handed him to her nervous daughter. She was even more nervous than 70-year-old Laura; she understood watching helplessly while someone else does the heavy lifting for you shouldn’t make you happy. “It’s all right,” she told her trembling daughter.
And so it seemed to be. Her husband and the two new mothers went home with their little baby, Harvey. But then the drama began. Harvey had been at Laura and her husband’s house for two days; their daughter and her boyfriend also stayed there.
It was a great time; the baby barely cried, and since they were able to care for the little one at this age, there was plenty of time to rest. But the calm would soon turn to complete chaos when the strange news about little baby Harvey became apparent. Aside from his special birth, this baby carried with him a much bigger secret, and it would be Laura’s husband who would soon find out.
Little Harvey was sitting on Laura’s lap when her husband Tom saw him. The toddler was busy waving his arms as he drank his bottle of milk. Tom stroked Harvey’s head and smiled at his wife. But when he looked at the baby’s head again, he noticed something strange. Harvey was born with a head full of super cute little hairs as a tiny baby. But upon closer inspection, these hairs turned out to be far from normal. Harvey’s birth parents, as well as Laura and Tom, knew not to wait any longer. Laura picked up the phone and immediately called the hospital.
Even the doctors seemed surprised and thought it was a good idea to get Harvey to the hospital as soon as possible. Once he arrived at the hospital, the doctor who was present during the delivery also looked at Harvey’s head. “We’ve never seen this before. Would you mind doing a little test?” The doctor cut a few hairs from Harvey’s head and examined them.
The little man’s parents had no idea what was going on. In all his fascination, the doctor had forgotten to reveal what exactly was going on. The doctor took about half an hour to re-enter the room and had a big smile on her face. She sat down next to Laura’s daughter and explained her findings to the nervous woman and her boyfriend. Laura and Tom looked at them and weren’t very calm either.
“You see these DNA spirals? Normally, with in vitro fertilization, you see a perfect match between the child’s DNA and that of both donor parents. However, we noticed a small mutation in Harvey. Harvey has not just two matches, but three. Of course, his DNA can be found directly in his own DNA, but there is a third DNA code present — that of your surrogate mother, Laura. Laura couldn’t believe her ears.
‘How could my DNA be mixed with Harvey’s? I was just the surrogate.’ ‘We’ve never experienced it here, but in theory, it’s possible,’ said the doctor.
The baby, of course, had lived in your uterus for nine months, so it’s possible he inherited small characteristics from Laura. Normally, these characteristics would not manifest themselves, but Harvey’s hairs were hard to miss; they had given him a special hair color.”