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US surrogate mother gives birth to quintuplets
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-04-27 15:02
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,
officials said.
Surrogate mother
Teresa Anderson, 25, looks at one of the five babies she delivered Tuesday
in Arizona.
[AP] | 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. "Suffice to say, it's
incredibly rare."
"I feel great," said Anderson, 25, a Mesa, Arizona woman, in remarks released
by the hospital. "I thought it was amazing. It was just a wonderful blessing to
see those babies and hear their cries."
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.
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