A 55-year-old former Lampeter woman has told how she had ‘no hesitation’ in acting as a surrogate mum for her daughter and giving birth to her child.

Tracey Smith was born without a womb and resigned herself to the fact she could never carry a baby.

But husband Adam Smith suggested IVF treatment could allow an embryo to be successfully implanted into the womb of Tracey’s mum, Emma Miles.

So Emma quit her job at Lampeter Co-op, moved to Coventry to be near her daughter and son-in-law, and shed six stone to allow her to carry baby Evie, who was born last month.

Describing herself as ‘overwhelmed and overjoyed’, Emma said: “[Surrogacy] was not a difficult decision at all – an easy one to make.

“You’d do anything for your own child, wouldn’t you?”

Now Tracey has called for a change in the law to make it easier for her to be legally-named as her daughter’s mother as current rules mean Emma is named on the birth certificate.

She and her husband have begun legal proceedings for a parental order which would see them changed to parents at the family court.

Tracey called the current law “backwards” and “outdated”.

But Emma is in no doubt who Evie really belongs to.

“She’s my little grand-daughter – end of,” she said.

“She’s always been Tracey’s little one - I was just head cook and passed her on.”