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Article updated: 9/7/2012 6:22 PM

Grandma’s gift to Naperville couple: Their daughter

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Emily Jordan, left, feeds her 6-day old daughter, Elle Cynthia Jordan, carried by Jordan's mother, Cindy Reutzel.

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Six-day-old Elle Cynthia Jordan is held by her grandmother Cindy Reutzel, who acted as a surrogate for her daughter Emily Jordan who had undergone a radical hysterectomy.

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Emily Jordan, left, examines the pregnant belly of her mother Cindy Reutzel last month in Naperville.

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Mike and Emily Jordan hold their six-day-old daughter Elle Cynthia Jordan in Naperville. After Emily Jordan underwent a radical hysterectomy, she and her husband accepted an offer from her mother Cindy Reutzel to act as a surrogate for their child.

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Emily and Mike Jordan thought they'd never have their own child after Emily was diagnosed with cervical cancer and underwent a radical hysterectomy. But Emily's own mother provided the Naperville couple with a child by serving - at age 53 - as a surrogate.

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