Grandmother Gives Birth to Twin Girls
When Trish Roberts was 14, she learned she was born without a uterus, making her unable to bear children.
“We told her at that time, if the good Lord was willing, I would carry for her when the time came,” said her mother, Sharon Dunn.
Roberts and her husband, Mike, had a frustrating experience trying to adopt a child three years ago and then were reminded of a woman who carried twins for her daughter. The couple, both 25, took Dunn up on her offer to be a surrogate mother.
On Thursday, Dunn, 48, gave birth to twin granddaughters, Kaitlyn and Shelby.
The girls were delivered by Caesarean section and have been in the neonatal intensive-care unit at Rapid City Regional Hospital.
“It still seems like a dream,” said Roberts, holding Kaitlyn.
Two of Roberts’ eggs were fertilized with her husband’s sperm and implanted in Dunn’s womb. “We implanted two embryos with a 50-50 chance that one would take. They both did,” Roberts said.
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