Mother, 52, Carries Twins for Daughter
A 52-year-old woman serving as a surrogate mother for her daughter, a contestant on NBC’s “American Gladiators,” has given birth to two of her own grandchildren, a set of twins.
The babies, a boy and a girl, were born Wednesday at an Arizona hospital, the family said.
“I just feel so blessed and fortunate. It’s the best experience of my life,” Crystal Sirignano told The Flint Journal for a story published Friday.
“I don’t regret one second, even the times when I didn’t feel good. None of that was as bad as watching what my daughter went through.”
She has owned Total Body Fitness in Grand Blanc for 25 years while husband D.J. owns John’s Steakhouse in Goodrich, where the couple live.
Crystal Sirignano offered to become a surrogate for her daughter after Kendra Sirignano went through several failed infertility treatments and surgeries.
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Awesome. Kendra should thank her lucky stars for a mom and dad like that. I’d do it for my daughters…..
What a beautiful story. May G-d grant them all happy and healthy lives. This is a wonderful way for a woman to have a surrogate. It warms my heart!
The story leaves out important matters. Who was the father-sperm doner? The son-in-law or a stranger? Was the daughter’s egg fertilized in vitro and then inserted back to the grandmother or was the grandmother’s egg used?
Anyone know?
First of all Stu, what business of it is yours regarding the “important matters” you’re claiming they left out? It’s really NONE of your business.
What really matters is that Kendra and her husband now have two healthy babies and Kendra was very fortunate to have her mother do this for her.
Of course it is none of my business, except I teach a bioethics elective to High School teens and I like to prtesent these cases for their perspectives. But, unless I have more inforation is remains a case I can’t use. Nothing more.
well for all of you that are asking, this is my cousin Kendra and my aunt Crystal who gave birth to the twins. Kendra was never able to have children of her own and invitro didn’t work after multiple attempts. It is kendra’s egg and her husbands sperm that was implanted in her mother, her mothers egg was not used.
Stu I would guess that Kendra had her eggs retrieved then they were fertilized by Aaron’s sperm. The IVF prcedure was then preformed on Kendra’s mother. You could present the case to your students and let them think of all the different variables that could have made it possible.