Woman Gives Birth To Twin Sister’s Baby

In a world where most people use strangers as surrogates, or prefer to be surrogates to people they don't know entirely, that's not the case of Allison Ardolino Dinkelacker.

Most women would probably like to think that they would happily act as a surrogate for their friend/sister/loved one, but actually going through the process of carrying someone else’s baby and giving birth to it is a whole other ball game.

But for Dawn Ardolino Policastro, there was no hesitation. She immediately offered to carry her twin sister’s baby to term after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Allison Ardolino Dinkelacker was diagnosed with the life-threatening illness when she was 30 weeks pregnant with her first child in 2009 and had a C-section a week later, delivering a healthy baby boy before starting chemotherapy.

Allison and her husband thought they would never be able to add to their family, and fulfill their dream of having two children, after the mum-of-one was told she wouldn’t be safe to get pregnant again. It was thought cancer had been caused by her pregnancy hormones, and so having another baby could cause the cancer to return.

But thanks to Allison’s twin Dawn, the couple’s dreams were able to come true. After accompanying Allison to the doctors appointment where she received her devastating news, Dawn volunteered to act as gestational carrier.

“Well before he even finished his sentence, Dawn jumped in and said, ‘It doesn’t matter because I am going to carry their child’,” Allison wrote on her Facebook page.


Dawn gave birth to a baby boy, named Hudson William Dinkelacker, earlier this month for her sister Allison.

“How can we begin to thank you for the tremendous generosity and sacrifice you have so willingly bestowed these last few months?

“You have given us not just the fulfillment of a wish we’ve had for the last six years, but a whole new life, and a family of four we thought we’d never have,” wrote Allison on Facebook.

The twin sisters who are apparently very close announced the gender of Alison's baby and documented their surrogacy journey through a series of photos that they shared on Facebook, receiving thousands of likes, shares and comments about their incredible story.


- Alison Coldridge