The Ultimate Gift From A Mum

This is a story of a mother who would go to the end of the earth for her daughter, giving her the best gift in the world “” a baby.

When Sherri Dickinson’s daughter found out she could not bear a child of her own, the 51-year-old volunteered her own body for the task, becoming the surrogate for her granddaughter, who was born in July.

Her daughter, 32-year-old Mandy Stephens had previously lost a child at 24 weeks, whom she named Theo, because her body would not accept the pregnancy and had sent her into preterm labour. Doctors then advised her to not continue with another pregnancy because the same would happen again.

After months of researching adoption agencies and searching for a surrogate, Sherri offered to carry the child for her daughter and the nine month process began!

“Watching your child lose a child is the definition of sadness,” Sherri said during an appearance on “Good Morning America,” adding, “I can’t describe it any other way. It breaks your heart.”

On July 31, Sherri gave birth to healthy baby girl, whom her daughter and son-in-law named Myla.

But the most beautiful part of this story is that Sherri, who is mother to three children including Mandy, has multiple sclerosis and found that pregnancy helped put her MS in remission “” a phenomenon that many researchers are looking into.

Sherri told Good Morning America that while pregnancy was easy for her, “The delivery at 51 was way harder than the delivery at 33″”” the age when she last gave birth.

Though the family was very open about their surrogacy situation, Sherri said she did get some strange looks and comments from strangers and neighbors while she was pregnant. “I thought I should get her a shirt that says, ‘Stay calm, it’s not mine,'” Stephens joked in her interview with Be Magazine.

Just beautiful!