CARY, N.C. -- A Fuquay-Varina woman gave the ultimate gift this year for Christmas, the gift of life. K.C. Wheeler volunteered to be a surrogate mother for her twin sister, Melissa Ferraro, of New York.

Even though the baby was due last Saturday, she was born Tuesday night on Christmas Day.

"We just saw her face and I started crying right away," said new mother Melissa Ferraro.

Melissa and her husband, Michael, had been trying for years to have a baby but couldn't get pregnant. With the help of In Vitro Fertilization, and her sister as a surrogate mother, the Ferraros got a Christmas miracle this year in the form of their newborn daughter, Madeline Grace.

“It's the best Christmas gift that my husband and I could ever have,” Ferraro said as she held Madeline and sat beside her sister at WakeMed Cary Hospital. “Just for my sister and brother-in-law to give her to us on Christmas just makes it all the more special. It was special enough and to have her be a little Christmas gift is just fantastic. I couldn't ask for anything more.”

After K.C. was implanted with her sister's fertilized embryo and became pregnant, Melissa got another miracle; she got pregnant. So little Madeline Grace will have a biological baby brother or sister in six months.

And what did the Ferraros give K.C. and her husband, Brad, for Christmas? A big screen television. But the Ferraros told the Wheelers they never have to give them another Christmas present ever again.