Motherly love: Woman, 58, pregnant with her own GRANDCHILD after becoming surrogate for infertile daughter
Grandmother of six Cathy Donnelly offered to carry a child for daughter
Shannon Fischer after she discovered she was unable to conceive
Surrogate: Cathy will give birth to her own grandchild for daughter Shannon
A woman is pregnant with her own GRANDCHILD – after becoming a surrogate mother for her daughter.
Cathy Donnelly, 58, will welcome her seventh grandchild when she gives birth to a baby girl in three months time.
Daughter Shannon Fischer discovered she was unable to conceive due to
scarring in her uterus after trying for two years with husband Jamie.
But big-hearted mum-of-three Cathy gave them a chance to become parents by volunteering to act as a surrogate for the couple.
Cathy, from London in Ontario, Canada, said: "I felt bad for them - I
just thought what's nine months of my life? They are going to have a
child for the rest of theirs.
"It was long process and involved a heavy dose of fertility drugs for both of us but in the end it all paid off.
"I was standing in line for a coffee when I got a call from my doctor
confirming I was pregnant. I was just bawling - people must have
thought someone close to me died.
"But it has been challenging. Now I'm showing I make sure people aren't staring or looking at me because they're probably thinking 'look at that old lady.'"
Motherly love: Shannon says the experience has brought them closer
Michael Murray, specialist at the Northern California Fertility
Medical Center, says though there have been cases of mothers acting as
surrogate for their daughters before it is typically something the
medical community does not advise.
He said: "Usually it's a close friend or a sister that acts as the
gestational carrier - women who are over 45-years-old are not normally
in good enough health.
"Pregnancy for older women is much riskier. The most common
complications are high blood pressure, gestational diabetes and
premature child birth."
But grandmother-of-six Cathy was willing to accept the risks, and
while she admits her pregnancy hasn't been easy, she has had no
complications so far.
Shannon plans to name her daughter Zoey Hope Catherine after her mum
and says the experience has made her cherish their mother-daughter
relationship.
She said: "It just changes your relationship 360 degrees.
"We were close before but it's just on a whole new level. I want to
be like she is to my own daughter, that caring and willing to do stuff
for her."
WHAT A WORLD.... If it were in Africa....???? in my opinion: The genesis of a cursed lineage...!!!!
We're losing memory and becoming selfish'
PRINCE Harry was supposed to be watching the track cycling at the London 2012
Olympics, but he was snapped using his mobile instead.
And when Barack Obama should have been preparing to give his speech after
winning the Presidential race last week, he was tweeting, “Four more years”,
and uploading a snap of himself and wife Michelle online.
Everywhere you look these days people are using mobiles when they ought to be
doing something else.
The chances are you’ve been out for dinner and the person you’re with has
taken out their handset and jabbed at it to check their messages instead of
talking to you.
At any one moment there are millions of us texting, tweeting, sharing pictures
on Instagram or updating Facebook.
The reason people love their mobiles so much is because they make us feel
wanted.
The more people we can link up to the better, as far as our brain is
concerned. Many people need the stimulation of others, via their phone, to
prove they are loved.
But there is a big problem with using gadgets to fill up on our need to be
wanted.
Psychologists from the University of Maryland found that when we use handsets
while we are with other people we can become more selfish. Part of the
problem lies with the technology itself — it cannot give us everything. It
will be just a text or a small picture.
What that means is we have to concentrate more on the phone. And that makes us
take our attention away from those around us.
But that’s not the only problem we face. Scientists at Columbia University in
New York have found that regular use of several web services means we are
losing our ability to remember things.
Gone are the days when you needed to recall directions to a new place. Now all
you need is Google Maps on your phone.
No longer do you need to remember which photo album those holiday snaps are
in. All you have to do is go to Flickr and the search facility will find
them for you.
The array of online services we can access anywhere, and at any time, means we
make fewer attempts to remember things.
We don’t need to try to recall things any more when the internet can do it for
us.
So that’s another reason why we end up using our mobiles when we are with
other people — we need to grab information.
But instead of it being in the back of our mind, it’s tucked away online.
Plus nowadays there is so much information available at the click of a mouse,
another issue is arising.
When we need to make a decision, our brains compare what we know about the
choices available and what we need to know to pick the right thing.
This is called the “information gap” and we’ve all suffered this while using
menus at restaurants.
Today we are aware there is more info available about the food on offer than
even the waiter might know. We can only make decisions when we think we have
reduced the information gap.
So, we ask the waiter then we go online on our mobiles to check food and
review websites to see if they can help us decide.
It’s a wonder that we all manage to get along so well. We are paying less
attention to each other, becoming more selfish, losing our memory and
getting ever more desperate to find out more and more information about
everything.
Sometimes we should switch off the gadgets and talk to each other.
'I won’t date a guy if he’s not on
Facebook. I ditched my ex for it'
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4647178/Were-losing-memory-and-becoming-selfish.html#ixzz2CNwJSgD1
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