A mother-of-five who became Britain’s youngest grandmother after her 14-year-old daughter gave birth has revealed she ‘doesn’t feel right being a granny’.
Kelly Healey was only 30 when her teenage daughter Skye Salter gave birth to Bailey, now three, in August 2018.
When she found out Skye was expecting, Ms. Healey offered ‘love and support’ because ‘what was done was done’—but the mother-of-five admitted that she ‘never expected’ to find out she was going to be a grandmother so young.
Speaking to The Sun, she said, ‘I never expected to find out I would become a Nan while still in my 20s.
But there was no point in yelling at Skye about contraception and safe sex. What was done was done.
‘All I could do was offer love and support. As a mum, you just deal with these things.
‘I act like I’m in my early 20s, so it doesn’t feel right to be a granny.
‘My friends think it’s hilarious that I’ve got a grandson. He’s always getting mistaken for my son.’
Skye was living with her stepmother and father in Cranford, West London, when she did a digital test out of the blue and found out she was expecting in 2018.
She was quickly referred to West Middlesex Hospital in Isleworth, where she had an ultrasound, and doctors revealed she was already 36 weeks and four days pregnant.
The teenager had been sexually active and did the test as a precaution before making an appointment to get the contraceptive implant.
Skye was left in shock at the news and was told by medics that ‘an abortion was not an option’ because she found out about the pregnancy so late.
Skye, now 17, recalls, ‘I was stunned. I had a secret feeling I might be pregnant, which is why I suggested the test. The dad is a local lad around my age.
‘I couldn’t believe it. I was potentially days off from becoming a mum. Just weeks earlier, I had been doing PE and climbing up and down hills.
Of course, finding out I was pregnant so late meant abortion wasn’t an option.
‘But I couldn’t have done that anyway. Seeing my baby’s heartbeat on the screen filled my heart with love.
‘I knew from that point onwards I would always take second place, and my baby boy would take first.’
Meanwhile, Ms Healey revealed that her mother doesn’t feel ‘ready’ to be a great-grandmother at just 48.
She told the newspaper: I’m not sure my mum was ready to be a great-grandmother at 48, though. That makes her the youngest great-gran in the UK, too.’
It comes as mother-of-three Gemma Skinner is believed to have become Britain’s youngest grandma at 33 after her 17-year-old daughter gave birth last October.
Ms Skinner, whose daughter Maizie gave birth to a little girl, said she was mistaken for the baby’s aunt by nurses in the hospital.
The mother-of-three from Amersham, Buckinghamshire, told The Sun: ‘At first I didn’t want to be called ‘nan’ or ‘granny’ — but now I’m loving it.’
Ms Skinner said she is having a great time taking her new granddaughter out and about, with everyone thinking she is the girl’s mother.
She has three daughters of her own, with her youngest, four-year-old Bella, also becoming an auntie with the birth of the new baby.
