It all started when Matthew and his husband expressed their will to start a family, but were discouraged when faced with expensive procedures and tough process of adoption. Seeing this, Matthew’s mother, without any hesitation, offered to be their surrogate. You would think that how will she be able to conceive considering a very big factor; her age. But lucky as they are Cecile is post menopausal and after a series of tests and dosing her with enough hormones to start her menstruation again, she was considered fit to be a surrogate mother.

And it doesn’t just end here. Dougherty’s sister, Yea Tribe, also offered to donate her eggs for the whole process. And after just one embryo transfer, the eggs and sperm were implanted in Cecile’s uterus and she became pregnant.

In an interview, Matthew says, “Her origin story is that her aunt Lea provided the seed of life and his mother provided the loving garden for her to bloom”.

However, being pregnant, given her age, wasn’t exactly a piece of cake. She had comparatively more morning sickness and fluctuating blood pressure during the nine month long pregnancy, but thankfully she delivered the baby without any complications.

Naturally, the couple was bombarded with a plethora of questions from the perplexed audience who at first found it hard to accept the idea.

Matthew explained that People were confused, which is normal. They got a lot of people being like ‘wait a minute, whose egg? As gay men, they were so lucky to be having children at a time when people are actually celebratory of their relationship and of them being parents, and also at a time when technology allows them to have this baby, with some of Elliot’s genetic material and some of his.

After a 2 year long procedure, Reynek gave birth to her healthy grand daughter of 5 pounds and 13 ounces, surrounded by her family at the precious moment.

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