Wollongong grandmother offered to have son's baby after his partner learned pregnancy could risk her life

A selfless young Wollongong grandmother has offered to be a surrogate to bless her son with a baby after his partner learned she risked severe health implications if she carried another child.

The couple, aged in their mid-20s, lost their six-month-old baby Rayah last year due to premature birth and chronic lung disease.

Mum Kyia Kuiper was diagnosed with a condition which caused clotting in the baby's placenta and also gave her mother multiple mini strokes.

Doctors detected baby Rayah was not growing properly in the womb and was born prematurely via Caesarean, weighing just 620 grams.

The newborn was transferred to intensive care, where she remained until she tragically passed away almost six months later.

"We had not been able to bring her home but her cot and all her little clothes were there," Ms Kuiper told Daily Mail Australia.

"The nurses gave us a little box of all her things - her dummies and her teddies. The hardest thing was putting all her stuff away."

The 25-year-old mother fell pregnant again, but devastatingly miscarried after 10 weeks.

Ms Kuiper had no idea she was suffering a potentially fatal condition until she "tried and tried" to have a baby with Mr Hearnden, but miscarried four times.

Doctors later told her it was "highly inadvisable" for her to try and carry another child due to the risk of blood clots.

"It's too dangerous for me and the baby," the mother said.

"I was very lucky I survived last time."

Her partner Daniel Hearnden, 27, set up a Go Fund Me page to raise money for the costly IVF process to try and conceive another child with his mother as the surrogate.

"We have been told if we try to conceive naturally Kyia may die due to clotting," he wrote on the page.

"Being on a single wage with a mortgage and car repayments makes it impossible to save and mum is getting closer to the big 50 mark so I thought I would see if we can speed all this up," the tradie wrote.

Michelle Hearnden, 47, who is already a mother of nine - her youngest a two year old boy - said she could never imagine not being able to have children.

"They needed someone who would be a surrogate and I said "why not me?".

Her son's partner was over the moon when her mother-in-law offered to help the couple have their child.

"I burst into tears,' Ms Kuiper said.

"She's just an amazing person to just selflessly say 'I'll do it'."

The NSW family hopes to raise $15,000 through the Go Fund Me page to begin IVF as soon as possible.

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