The little girl who can give birth to her own brother or sister

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When Melanie Boivin learned that her young daughter Flavie had a rare condition which would damage her fertility, she was determined to find a way to help her.

After a year of research on the Internet, talking to experts and discussing it with her partner, she came up with the answer - to donate some of her own eggs for eventual use by seven-year-old Flavie.

As a result, the little girl could one day give birth to her own half-brother or sister while Miss Boivin, 35, would be both a mother and grandmother to the infant.

“The role of a mother is essentially to help her children and if I could do anything in my power to help her I had to do it, and because of my age I had to do it now,” Miss Boivin said.

“I told myself if she had needed another organ like a kidney I would volunteer without any hesitation, and it is the same kind of thought process for this.