By Ashley Collman PUBLISHED: 18:51 EST, 7 January 2014 | UPDATED: 15:45 EST, 8 January 2014 Pregnant: Julia Navarro, 58, right, hugs her daughter Lorena McKinnon after acting as surrogate for the 32-year-old Utah resident Julia Navarro, 58, is looking forward to being a grandmother for the first time, but doubly so because she will be the one in the delivery room actually giving birth to the baby girl. After three years and about a dozen failed pregnancies, Ms Navarro's 32-year-old daughter Lorena McKinnon and her husband Micah were getting desperate to start a family.
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Lorena McKinnon and her husband Micah struggled through three years of failed pregnancies
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When one potential surrogate dropped out, Lorena's mother Julia Navarro stepped up to volunteer
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At 58, she had to go through three months of hormone treatment to get her body ready for baby
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The embryo took on first try and now Ms Navarro is just weeks away from being a grandmother for the first time
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