Woman Gives Birth To Daughter's Triplets

(CBS)  An Ohio woman has given birth to her own, triplet granddaughters.

And in having her daughter's three newborns, Jaci Dalenberg, 56, may have become the oldest surrogate mom anywhere to have had triplets, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

Dalenberg, who has four adult kids of her own, carried the triplets for her daughter, Kim Coseno, a 36-year-old nurse in her second marriage, and Kim's husband, firefighter Joe Coseno, 30.

It's Kim's second marriage and Joe's first. Kim has an 18-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son, but Joe wanted to have kids, as well.

Trouble was, Kim was no longer able to carry a child.

They tried to adopt, but were having trouble with the process.

Knowing that, and observing how good Joe was with Kim's kids, and seeing how sincere Kim and Joe were about wanting kids of their own, Jaci says she thought about it for a year or so, then decided to offer to carry a child or children for Kim and Joe.

The result? The third try to transfer eggs to Jaci turned out to be a charm.

And the triplets, though two are technically twins and the third a "singleton," were born within two minutes of each other, nine weeks premature, on Oct. 11.

In birth order: Elizabeth, the singleton, weighed in at two pounds, 14-1/2 ounces, Carmina was two pounds even, and Gabrielle tipped the scale at two pounds, nine ounces.

Kim says all are "doing great" and one will be coming home later this week, and the others in another week or two.

Kim told Early Show co-anchor Julie Chen Tuesday she "was shocked" when her mom made the offer, "and I didn't even know if it was possible, but it opened up and started just like a little glimmer of hope that it could happen."

"I was completely shocked," Joe agreed. "Our main concern was just for the health of Jaci, and we didn't want her to put herself in jeopardy for our dream of having more children. So, we wanted to make sure that we had everything checked to make sure she was going to be fine with the whole pregnancy."

The main risks, Cleveland Clinic obstetrician Dr. Robert Kiwi explained to Chen, were "prematurity, and then problems with fetal growth, and that was actually what led us to deliver the babies early, because one of the twins wasn't growing at the pace that it should have, and so that led to the decision to do the delivery just about a month ago."

[peace_fresa]

i agree with crescentgirl
& andsab.
surrogate motherhood is
a nice thing.
especially for those who cannot
have children in there
own wombs.

but this IS weird.
for your grandmother to
have given birth to yoo?

awkward. =/

[gaye5]

mumu11, good on you, I totally agree, there is nothing weird in this, God has given us brains to use them and I think that this is just wonderful and what a wonderful mother to want to do this for her daughter. A precious precious gift, no one can beat that gift for their daughter..

[andsab]

crescentgirl,

I totally agree with...weird!!!

[violets4me]

Congrats to the family. I''m so happy that someone could carry the babies to term for her. Let''s stop complaining about it and let the family alone!!!!

[mumu11]

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness... except for those who don''t abide by the rules of the Christian ultra-right, of course. What sin was involved? None! Who did they harm? No one! God never forbade us to use our brains to make our life better, but I seem to remember that we aren''t to judge, lest we be judged.

[rachel7050]

This is for all you people that cannot understand how this was done. It is the same process for people that can still carry a child, but cannot get pregnant on their own. It is called invitro. They take the sperm of the her husband and HER OWN eggs and then plant them both into her mother. How hard is that to understand? There is nothing wrong with it.

[faithlyn-2009]

I think the people that are posting negative comments must have really sad lives to be so inclined to criticize others.
Best Wishes and Healthy Thoughts to those three little angels! Congratulations to Mom, Dad AND Grandma!!

[crescentgirl]

weird. How can u give birth to your own grandchildren? I think if a woman carries a child to term...she is the mother...so, this woman who is genetically the childrens'' grandmother is also their mother....very weird...goes against nature.

[bjop]

Only someone wanting children very badly could understand this, I think, personally, I''d do it in a minute for my son or daughter.Congratulations to all involved !!

[Gary Kempf]

Woman Gives Birth To Daughter''s Triplets;

My bad, I thought this was the Sarah Palin story.