Maine woman gives birth to her grandson after heart condition prevents her daughter from getting pregnant
49-year-old Linda Sirois gave birth to her own grandson earlier this month.
Linda Sirois of Madawaska, Maine offered to carry and deliver her grandkid for her daughter, Angel Hebert, when Hebert learned that it would be too dangerous to become pregnant, the Maine Sunday Telegram reported.
“It was all pretty simple as far as I was concerned,” Sirois, who gave birth to 7-pound, 14-ounce Madden Hebert on Aug. 13, told the newspaper.
The new grandmother said she told her daughter for many years that she would carry her child if doctors told her that it would unsafe to get pregnant.
Last summer, doctors confirmed to Hebert, 25, and her husband, Brian Hebert, 29, that a pregnancy would be too risky – prompting the couple to turn to Sirois.
“It was pretty disappointing and we were pretty upset about it,” Hebert told thePortland Press Herald. “But we kind of had an idea that it was a possibility and, all along, my mother was saying, ‘I’m here and I can carry for you.'”
Sirois made good on her offer and had Hebert’s egg — fertilized with her husband’s sperm — successfully implanted.
On Aug. 13, Sirois gave birth by C-section to 7-pound, 14-ounce Madden Hebert as his mom Angel Hebert stood nearby, the Daily Mail said
Sirois, who has given birth to four children before Madden, said that this pregnancy may have been the easiest thanks to the absence of morning sickness and complications.
“I just saw it as I was babysitting for a few months,” she said. “It was their child all along. [I] was just a room for rent.”
