Rejected Boy’s Twin Also With Mother

A woman who bore twins under a surrogate-parent contract only to have the biological father keep the girl twin and reject the boy now has custody of both infants.

Patty Nowakowski, who gave birth to the twins about six weeks ago, released a statement through her Lansing lawyer last week saying she and her husband now have both children but providing few other details in the case.

“Our office represents the Nowakowskis, and we are authorized to state that the twins born under the surrogacy agreement have been reunited and are living with their mother,” the statement said.

“The Nowakowskis request that they be allowed to return to their private lives without further press involvement in the interests of their children and family. No further public comment will be made by the Nowakowskis or by our firm.”

The lawyer, Kitty Groh, refused to discuss any details of the negotiations that led to the baby’s return, saying only: “The situation is over and done with. It has been a horrible thing.”

Nowakowski has refused to identify the Michigan couple who paid her $10,000 to bear a child through a surrogate-parent contract. When she gave birth to the twins, the couple balked, saying they already had three boys and did not want another.

The biological father took the girl twin home from the hospital shortly after the twins were born in April. The boy at first was placed in a foster home, but Nowakowski and her husband, Aaron, decided later they would rear him themselves. They have named him Arthur Jay.