'Our Mother Teresa'

Teresa Anderson of Arizona thought it would be an easy way to make a little extra cash. She offered her services as a surrogate mother. But she got more than she bargained for. Much more.

She's carrying quintuplets, five boys due any day now.

CBS News Correspondent Sandra Hughes visited the very expectant mother.

Her every move takes a monumental effort, Hughes reports.

That's why most of Teresa Anderson's time is now spent on her side in a Phoenix hospital bed, as she awaits the birth of the five boys she'll give to another couple.

"We found out there was a few more than expected," Anderson tells Hughes. "I was surprised. I was shocked. (But it was) kind of exciting."

Anderson was implanted with five embryos that belong to Enrique Moreno and Luisa Gonzalez, also of Phoenix.

Doctors were just hoping for one healthy baby and never imagined five, Hughes says. Ultrasounds show they're all boys. All are believed healthy, except for one with a congenital heart defect.

The couple and Anderson met through the Internet, but have forged a much deeper friendship.

"What did they tell you that struck a chord in your heart?" Hughes asked.

"That they hadn't been able to have a child in 10 years. It looked like they had a lot of love to give and I wanted to help," Anderson responded.

At first, Hughes points out, Anderson was thinking of this as a job. Her earlier pregnancies were easy, and this seemed like a great way to help someone and make a little extra money.

But this is nothing like her other pregnancies. "It just feels like your back is split wide open," Anderson answered, when describing the backaches she says are the most difficult part of the pregnancy.

Anderson is not a complainer, Hughes notes, although she gained 70 pounds, and that made her slow down a bit.

Until Monday, she stayed on her feet, taking care of her family, since, "They have to go on with their life. It doesn't stop."

But she wound up in the hospital shortly after.Her life includes two young daughters at home, and a husband who calls her a hero. "I'm proud of her," Jerad Anderson beams. "I mean, she's giving someone else an opportunity to have children that tried for 10 years and couldn't. It's giving someone else joy."

Delivery day is, all involved hope, May 2, when Teresa is scheduled to have the babies by Caesarian section. If she carries the quints until then, Anderson will have made it to 34 weeks.

Until then, Moreno and Gonzalez will be counting their blessings and praying for the one baby who will need immediate surgery.

For weeks, they've been trying to get organized, with very little family to turn to in Phoenix.

They wonder how they'll manage, saying five is "like a basketball team."

But they say they never considered aborting any of the babies, although they did give Anderson the option.

"She said, two, three, four, five, it didn't matter," Gonzalez says. "We said, 'OK, thank you.' "

"She's our mother Teresa!" beams Moreno.

After 10 years of infertility, the couple is thrilled, but not sure what to expect.

What they do know, Hughes says, is that Anderson is about to deliver a miracle for them, a miracle Anderson decided was too precious to charge for. She won't take the $15,000 fee.

So what does Anderson get out of this at the end? "The gift," she says, "of life, giving them five children, making their lives forever changed and happy."

Morena and Gonzalez say Anderson feels like part of the family now. And the feeling is mutual.

Anderson says, once the babies are born and she's back on her feet, she'll be at the couple's home to help out.

And for the record: The boys will be named Enrique, Jorge, Gabriel, Victor, and Javier.