A 52-year-old Texas woman has given birth to her own grandchildren — a pair of twin girls she bore as a surrogate mother for her daughter-in-law.
Marianne Thoms of Levelland returned home Wednesday, three days after giving birth to the girls at Covenant Medical Center in the northwest Texas city of Lubbock.
The twin girls, Sydney and Morgan, are still in the hospital but are in good health.
“We were glad to get them into this world,” Thoms said in a telephone interview. She said the pregnancy was pretty easy, even though it had been about 28 years since she last gave birth.
Woman volunteers to avoid legal issues
Hospital officials said they did not know whether there were other cases of a surrogate mother giving birth to her own grandchildren.
Thoms volunteered for the role on behalf of her son Shawn Reed and his wife, Traci, who could not give birth because of scarring in her uterus.
Traci Reed underwent an in-vitro fertilization procedure in San Antonio. A doctor told them it would be best to find a family member to serve as a surrogate mother to avoid legal complications over custody of the children.
Thoms, a pilot, skydiver and scuba diver, stepped forward. ”This pregnancy was much more exciting than those adventures,” she said.
