SAO PAULO, Brazil (Oct. 1) - A 51-year-old surrogate mother for her daughter has given birth to her own twin grandchildren in northeastern Brazil, the delivery hospital said.

Rosinete Palmeira Serrao, a government health worker, gave birth to twin boys by Caesarean section on Thursday at the Santa Joana Hospital in the city of Recife, the hospital said in a statement on its Web site.

Hospital officials were not available for comment on Sunday, but press reports said the grandmother and twins were discharged on Saturday in excellent health. The Caesarean section was performed about two weeks ahead of time because Serrao was having trouble sleeping, the statement said.

Serrao decided to serve as a surrogate mother after four years of failed attempts at pregnancy by her 27-year-old daughter, Claudia Michelle de Brito.

Brazilian law stipulates that only close relatives can serve as surrogate mothers. De Brito is an only child and none of her cousins volunteered, so Serrao agreed to receive four embryos from her daughter

At age 51, Rosinete Palmeira Serrao, center, gave birth to her own twin grandchildren in Brazil on Sept. 27. She was a surrogate for her daughter, Claudia Michelle, left.

Other Bizarre Births

At the age of 62, Janise Wulf had her 12th child in Redding, Calif., in February 2006. At the time, she also had 20 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

A doctor holds a set of quadruplets born to Angela Magdaleno and Afredo Anzaldo in Los Angeles in July 2006, just three years after the couple had triplets.

Amillia Sonja Taylor lies next to a pen at the Miami hospital where she was born to Sonja Taylor Oct. 24. She went on to survive after weighing just 10 ounces at birth.

Other babies beat the odds. Tamera Dixon, shown healthy at 4 months old in August, weighed only 11 ounces when she was born in Trenton, N.J.

In August, Victoria Lasita gave birth to her second set of triplets. The odds of that are just one in 64 million.

Nadezhda Khalina weighed 17.1 lbs when she was born Sept. 26 in a small town in southern Siberia. Nadezhda is her mother’s 12th child.

Jim and Michelle Duggar welcomed their 17th child, Jennifer, to the family in Rogers, Ark., in early August.

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