'I'm pregnant with my own son’s baby at 56 after my daughter-in-law was left unable to carry a child"

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Credit: SWNS   A woman is pregnant with her own son’s baby at 56 after her daughter-in-law was left unable to carry a child - and says she can’t wait to give birth to her granddaughter.  Nancy Hauck, 56, offered to be a surrogate for her son, Jeff Hauck, 32, and his wife, Cambria, 30, after her daughter-in-law had a hysterectomy following the traumatic birth of their twins.  The pair had already been struggling to conceive for six years before they had twins, Vera and Ayva, now three, and another set, Diesel and Luka, 11 months, via IVF.  But after still wanting to expand their family, Nancy had 'a feeling' she was the one who should carry their baby and told Jeff, a computer scientist, she would be willing to do it for them.  Nancy was surprised when doctors told her she was healthy enough to be a gestational carrier - as she wasn’t expecting it to be possible at her age.

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00:00I never imagined I would be pregnant at 56. I'm serving as a gestational carrier for my son

00:07and his wife, my daughter-in-law Cambria.

00:19Hi, I'm Nancy Houck. Jeff, our son, and Cambria had struggled with infertility and had

00:26three additional embryos that they had hoped to give the chance for life. I just had a strong

00:34impression that I was supposed to consider being a carrier for them. And so I told them,

00:43I just, I love you so much. I would, if I could do this. They told their doctor about my

00:49offer. They did the exam and found that I was really a viable candidate, which was a surprise.

01:07We just let them pick the embryo. I didn't need as much

01:11intervention, I guess, which was good for me. But then I did everything like a young mother would

01:16have. The embryo transfer was on February 17th, and it was just a beautiful, peaceful experience.

01:26About six days after the transfer, I had an experience with the baby that made me think I

01:35was pregnant. As a scientist, I wanted it to be confirmed, of course, and I even took a home

01:42pregnancy test a couple days before the blood test just to see, and all of them came out positive.

01:58When we got the pregnancy test, you know, they were elated. The remarkable thing with fertility

02:05is they do an ultrasound at two weeks. It was amazing to see this taking place in my body at 56.

02:15I felt like this was going to be a girl, and it is in fact a girl. I like strong women. It's kind

02:23of fun to be knowing I'm carrying a strong baby girl. Could have been a horrible health crisis,

02:30but it just hasn't been. I've been really healthy, at least as healthy as my others.

02:45This has been the total

02:48test of courage and leap of faith, so I'm going to have to continue that until

02:53she's here. I never imagined doing it. All the circles of people I know, I don't know anyone

02:59else, especially at my age. There's no expectation anyone should do this.

03:04Some of our most beautiful things in life happen unexpectedly.

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