© Family photo Madden Hebert rests with his mom, Angel Hebert, right, and his grandmother, Linda Sirois. Sirois carried the baby for her daughter, who has a heart condition
Madden Hebert is a typical week-old baby -- "eating like a champ and he doesn't fuss too much," according to his mother.
But there's nothing typical about how he came about.
Last week, Madden's grandmother gave birth to him.
"It was all pretty simple as far as I was concerned," said Linda Sirois, 49, of Madawaska, who carried and delivered Madden because her daughter, Angel Hebert, had a heart condition that meant it would be unsafe for her to get pregnant.
Sirois said she has let her daughter know for years that she would become a surrogate mother for her if a doctor suggested that she not become pregnant.
Hebert, 25, of Presque Isle, said she and husband Brian Hebert, 29, got that word last summer.
"It was pretty disappointing and we were pretty upset about it," Hebert said. "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.' I guess we didn't really take her seriously."
So Hebert decided to find out if her mother really meant it.
"I called her last summer and I'm like, 'So, you know that offer you've been offering? Is that offer still on the table?' " she said.
Her mother gave her answer by immediately calling fertility clinics around the area. Most rejected Sirois because of her age, she said, but finally the Reproductive Science Center in Lexington, Mass., agreed as long as Sirois passed some tests.
