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Luisa Gonzalez, 32, and husband Enrique Moreno, 34, at home in Gilbert, Ariz., touch the belly of surrogate mom Teresa Anderson, 25, of Mesa, Ariz., Monday, April 4, 2005. Anderson was in her 30th week of carrying the couple's quintuplets. Anderson who agreed to be a surrogate mother for a childless couple is pregnant with quintuplets, all boys, and she's decided not to accept any money because of the expense the parents are facing. PHOTO - ČTK/AP |
PHOENIX - An Arizona woman who agreed to be a surrogate mother for a couple unable to have children gave birth to five baby boys on Tuesday at a Phoenix hospital. Teresa Anderson delivered the rare quintuplets by Caesarean section within five minutes and without complications at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center. All five boys were reported to be doing well in an intensive care unit. Doctors said the quintuplets may be a record for a surrogate mother. "There are no statistics kept on the number of quintuplet births to surrogate mothers," said Dr. John Elliott, who delivered the babies.
"I feel great," said Anderson, 25, a Mesa, Arizona woman, in remarks released by the hospital. Anderson was implanted with five embryos, but did not expect all to be viable. The newborns -- Enrique, Jorge, Gabriel, Javier and Victor -- range in weight from 3-pounds,
7-ounces to 3-pounds,
15-ounces. Javier will have to undergo surgery later for a rare heart defect. Parents-in-waiting Luisa Gonzalez and Enrique Moreno issued a statement thanking Anderson -- who waived her $15,000 fee because of the cost the parents will have to bear with their new family of seven. Reuters
