UK’s ‘youngest grandparents’ who welcomed their first grandchild aged 33 and 35 say strangers ‘get the shock of their life’ when they learn she’s not their baby
A couple believe they are the youngest grandparents in the UK, after welcoming their first granddaughter when they were just 33 and 35-years-old.
A couple in their early thirties have become two of Britain’s youngest grandparents – and say strangers often mistake the newborn girl for their child
Jenni Medlam, 34, and husband Richard, 35, were delighted by the birth of baby Isla-May in June after being told the unexpected news by their daughter Charmaine.
Jenni Medlam, gave birth to her first daughter Charmaine at the age of 17, but the relationship didn’t work out, and she was left feeling ‘very isolated’ because she didn’t have a support network to help her as a single mother.
When Charmaine was five-years-old, Jenni met her husband Richard, 35, who brought her daughter up as his own and who she looks up to as a father figure.
So when the teenager, then 16, announced that she was expecting a baby with her boyfriend of two years, Jenni and Richard were determined to support her as much as possible.
However, the new grandmother admits that when the couple, from Hull, take Isla-May out for a walk, strangers get the “shock of their life”.
Jenni and Richard now love being young grandparents – although they admit that strangers often think that Isla is their baby.
However, after coming to terms with the news, They now say they are both loving their new roles.
Charmaine has been with her partner, the baby’s father, for nearly two years and Jenni says their whole family all live under one roof together.
The loving grandparents regularly look after little Isla to “give Charmaine a break”.
Jenni, who runs her own cleaning business, thinks that teenage mums are stereotyped but insists that having a baby doesn’t mean your life is over.
She says that although she was a teen mum, she was still able to work and bring up her daughter, and even start her own business.
Source:mirror.co.uk, dailymail.co.uk
