The obstetrician-gynaecologist Alexander Zervakis He talks exclusively to photothema.gr about the emotional moments he had in the maternity ward, but also the two women, with 55 year old grandmother to give birth to her daughter’s child. As he tells photothema.gr “it was a struggle for two whole years which had a happy ending for the two women to see the miracle of life coming to life”.
«When the two women first came to my office, the mother and her daughter, they were disappointed and hesitant to visit many doctors and attempts were made without success. I, listening to the history of the 55-year-old woman, who is the grandmother of the child today, from the first moment I gave her serious hope and I was sure that in the end they would manage to hold both in their arms. together, his mother and his daughter, the child whose wish was so. It was a struggle for two whole years that had a happy ending.
The 55-year-old woman was optimistic about the outcome. I’m not hiding from you that she isn’t either she always believed that the time would come when she would be carrying her daughter’s childbecause the daughter was born with Mayer – Rokitasky – Kuster – Hauser syndrome type 1, a condition in which there is a congenital agenesis of the uterus and ovaries present to produce eggs. That is, the daughter was born without a womb. That’s why, when she gave birth and afterwards, she told me “for 30 years I waited and was afraid of this moment”.
This woman, therefore, became a rock in order to fulfill her child’s dream, to be the mother of a healthy child. I want to say that it was not easy for her because there were moments of discomfort, fatigue, intense stress and above all she had to deal with the closed society because she lived in Crete. They saw a 55-year-old woman walking around suddenly pregnant and this caused different reactions. And yet, this woman was true to her goal and wanted to make her daughter happy. He wanted to see the miracle come to life and he succeeded.
On the other hand, her daughter is a bright person who believed in her mother’s abilities and the result.
So we came up with a plan because the surrogate grandmother needed some corrective interventions to be able to conceive. We had many difficulties such as pre-existing hypertension, age and strict legal frameworks. The preparation took two years with operations, examinations and committees to get approval from the National Fertility Authority.
The first attempt at embryo transfer failed. It was very difficult but in the end we managed to get up. The second embryo transfer was successful. The pregnancy was high risk, but the will was higher and the patience eternal. She followed exactly what we said and finally we went to give birth. A 3,500 gram baby was born, a mature baby, I would say.
The touching thing is that the daughter, who has now become a mother, was inside her mother’s womb, holding her hand and always thanking her for the gift of life she gave her. They were moved, we all moved when we saw the little creature. The two of them held him in their arms together, mother and daughter and it was a very nice picture» says Alexandros Zervakis at protothema.gr.
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