‘I became a gran at 40!’
Abbie Carr, 44, lives in Halifax and is a gran to Ryan-Jane, four.
Sitting on the sofa with my 19-year-old daughter Francesca, my eyes widened in anticipation. She had something big to tell me. ‘I’m pregnant,’ she announced nervously. It was December 2017, and Francesca had just split up with her boyfriend when she’d made the surprise discovery. It was a shock to her, and me.
At 39, I certainly never expected to be a gran so young – my youngest child was only six and after separating from my husband in 2016, I’d even entertained the idea of having more children in the future. But in that moment, finding out I was going to be
