Woman in 50s gives birth to own grandchild

TOKYO, Japan - Yahiro Netsu, director of the Suwa Maternity Clinic in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, explains a surrogate birth at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 15. A woman in her 50s gave birth to her own grandchild last year at his clinic in a host surrogacy on behalf of her daughter in her 30s, who had had her uterus removed for cancer.

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