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Q: On a December evening in 2015, Nicole Barattini and her husband, Kevin, were eating dinner at a Long Island steakhouse with a couple they knew socially, Shawn and Lianna Fives. 
  
 Years before this outing, Nicole learned that due to a rare blood disorder called TTP , if she got pregnant, she or the baby were at a high risk of dying. 
  
 Adoption or hiring a surrogate were out of the question due to the high cost topping $90,000. 
  
 A few female friends offered to carry for the couple (Nicole had harvested and frozen her eggs, since TTP is not genetic), but for various reasons it had never worked out. 
  
 That December night, Lianna (already a mom of five) announced a surprise solution: She would carry a baby for the Barattini’s, for free. 
  
 The Barratini’s were stunned. “To see their faces, their excitement, I don’t think they believed it themselves,” Lianna recalls. 
  
 “I was blessed to have five kids and they are all amazing and I couldn’t picture my life without them,” says Lianna, 37. “And to see this family so deserving it broke my heart.” 
  
 On February 10, 2017, Lianna delivered twins, a boy and a girl. 
  
 “Lianna and Shawn saved us,” says Kevin, 35, who works for the town of Smithtown, N.Y. and has a DJ business. “You hit rock bottom and you think it’s the end of the road. We are literally blessed. There are no words.” 
  
 About six years ago, Lianna had heard about Nicole’s inability to have children through a mutual friend. 
  
 At the time, Lianna was between her second and third child, and felt she could not be a carrier for the Barattini’s until she was finished having her own family. 
  
 In New York, surrogacy for pay is illegal. However, altruistic surrogacy — which means one carries the baby for free, and also known as being a gestational carrier — is allowed, according to surrogacy attorney Melissa Brisman. 
  
 Following the birth of Lianna’s last child on June 2, 2015, she made up her mind to become a carrier. She also got a promise from Shawn, a busy funeral director, to help more with child care. 
  
 “At first it was difficult for me to get a sense of why she wanted to do this,” says Nicole. “She is an angel. She wanted to do this out of the kindness of her heart.” 
  
 Shawn started giving Lianna hormone shots to prepare her body for the implantation of the embryos created with Nicole’s eggs and Kevin’s sperm. 
  
 After a second IVF attempt succeeded, both couples went to 95 percent of every doctor’s appointment with Lianna’s obstetrician, Dr. Richard Klein, sometimes twice a week. 
  
 “We had so much fun during the pregnancy, the delivery,” says Klein, who has known Lianna since delivering her first child over 13 years ago. 
  
 Lianna’s gift “was to me the most you could ever do for a friend, to do something like that,” says Klein. “What a generous thing to do for a friend.” 
  
 On Labor Day, the couples — by this time the closest of friends — created a joint surprise baby announcement party for 60 guests, and included the Fives’ children, then ages 13 to 1. 
  
 Despite a lot of people asking Lianna how she would be able to give up the babies, “We said, ‘Their buns, my oven,’ ” she says. “I will always have a connection to the twins, but I had no problem with letting them go.” 
  
 On February 10, both couples were in the operating room with Dr. Klein for a C-section, required because one of the babies was breech. 
  
 First Dominic was born, followed minutes later by Luciana. 
  
 “I felt hot and dizzy,” says Nicole. “We saw the whole thing.” 
  
 The Barattini’s annointed Lianna and Shawn the babies’ godparents. Nicole and Lianna, who share the same March 1 birthday, are “closer than we’ve ever been, I don’t have a sister but I’d consider her like that,” say Nicole. “We don’t hold back, we are open, honest and I am constantly turning to her for guidance.” 
  
 Nicole “still can’t process” Lianna’s generosity. 
  
 “Every time I look at the babies it reminds me of what she went through, she never complained, ever,” says Nicole. 
  
 “We have a strong faith,” she says, “and I believe things happen for a reason, and I believe that energy you put in comes full circle, and I think it will with her.” 
  
 Know a hero? Send suggestions to heroesamongus@peoplemag.com. For more inspiring stories, read the latest issue of PEOPLE magazine. ||||| When Nicole Barattini was 16 years old, her eyes became jaundiced and she noticed little bumps all over her body. She went to her pediatrician, and her blood work came back abnormal: She had only 8,000 platelets per microliter, compared to an an average, healthy person's 140,000 to 150,000. At one scary point, her count dropped to a dangerous 3,000 platelets per microliter. 
  
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 After being shuffled around to multiple hospitals, a doctor at a children's hospital in New Hyde Park diagnosed her with an autoimmune disease called thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (or TTP). TTP causes tiny, potentially dangerous blood clots to form throughout the body. Whenever she has an episode, Narattini feels extremely tired and may need to be hospitalized for as long as 10 days to receive a plasma exchange. She requires regular immunotherapy, a medication which can make her feel even more tired, too. 
  
 Now 29, Nicole has been dealing with her TTP for over a decade. But it was until a year after her 2010 wedding to her now-husband Kevin Barattini that she learned carrying a baby could be damaging to her health — the medication could potentially harm a baby, and to avoid any possible risk, she would likely have to stop treating the TTP, leaving her at risk. While some women do have successful pregnancies while dealing with this illness, Nicole says that she had been informed that many end up ill or never reach full-term. 
  
 The couple considered adopting a baby, but she found the process to be too expensive. She did, however, have another option: to freeze her eggs. Luckily, there was nothing wrong her embryos and she had been informed that her autoimmune disorder was not genetic. Eventually, she'd have someone carry her eggs. But the question was: whom? 
  
 "We had heard stories that sisters carried and mothers carried [eggs for women who could not carry], but I don't have a sister and my mother is over the age [to be able to be a carrier]," she says. "We just did it [froze my eggs] for precautionary reasons and hoped for the best." 
  
 Though paid surrogacy is illegal in New York, Nicole and Kevin looked into finding a surrogate by going outside of New York. It's also very expensive, though; an attorney informed her that it would cost around around $150,000 (ConceiveAbilities says the average costs for paying for surrogacy is between $98,000 and $140,000.) 
  
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 In New York, you can use a gestational carrier — which is different from traditional surrogacy in that the carrier isn't connected by genetics to the child — without paying. You'd think that would make it easier on behalf of the parents, but it can make it even more challenging to find someone: It's a big ask to approach someone about using their body to carry your child. And Nicole understood that. "I have never been pregnant, but have heard that there is a major bond that takes place over 9 months [of gestation]," she says. "That after 9 months to hand off the babies — even if they are not biologically yours — is too difficult for some people." 
  
 Nicole and her husband were pleasantly surprised, though, to see that many of her friends offered to help out and be a carrier, saying how it was "crazy how many people stepped up to the plate." 
  
 But all of them were deemed to be "unfit" by doctors as a measure of precaution — they had to be the pinnacle of health in order to be a gestational carrier. 
  
 In late 2015, the Barattinis finally found their carrier: Nicole and Kevin's friend Lianna Fives. 
  
 Fives' husband, Shawn, had been friends with Kevin for about 15 years, and the family had long known about the Barattini's struggles. Lianna, though capable of being a carrier, had always been a supportive friend but offered to help. She was trying to grow her own family. 
  
 (L-R): Kevin Barattini, Shawn Fives, Lianna Fives, and Nicole Barattini. Courtesy of the Barattini Family 
  
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 "Lianna always knew she wanted to have more kids, so she never mentioned anything to us," Nicole says, also adding that Lianna has said that she always knew she would help out despite not having offered early on. But after the Fives had their 5 children, they decided they were ready to help their longtime friends. 
  
 Lianna first tried with two of Nicole's embryos in June 2016, and was unsuccessful. She tried again in July, and it worked — soon enough, Lianna was certifiably pregnant. 
  
 During Lianna's pregnancy, Nicole, Kevin, and Shawn all joined her at doctors' appointments. Nicole says it wasn't weird for her to see someone else carrying her baby and receiving the care from the ob/gyn. "We had been through so much that I had been OK with the fact that I wasn't going to be able to carry, so at that point it wasn't hard at all," she says. "It was actually a relief that they were going to be healthy, and there was less stress for me knowing that a really good person was carrying them." 
  
 Lianna gave birth to two healthy twins, Dominic and Luciana, on February 10. She's now Luciana's godmother. 
  
 Nicole says her babies are healthy, and she's been in remission from from having any serious TTP episodes for two and a half years, though she still gets immunotherapy every 12 weeks, mostly to keep any potential symptoms at bay. 
  
 Nicole hopes her story gives other woman who can't carry hope. "It's never the end of the road. I do wish it was legal to have a surrogate [in New York], because I do think more people would do it if they were paid, unfortunately," she says. "But there are people out there like Liana that will do it out of kindness — and it's easier to find them than it seems." 
  
 The Barattini babies. Courtesy of the Barattini Family 
  
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A: 
Lianna Fives heard about Nicole Barattini's plight through a mutual friend—because of a rare blood disorder, Barattini couldn't risk carrying a child because she or the baby would likely die—and made an incredible decision. At dinner together with their husbands in 2015, Fives told the Barattinis she would be a surrogate mother for them, at no cost. "To see their faces, their excitement, I don’t think they believed it themselves," the 37-year-old Fives, a mother of five herself, tells People. "She is an angel. She wanted to do this out of the kindness of her heart," says Barattini, 29. It took two attempts at IVF, but Fives was successfully implanted with embryos created using Barattini's eggs and her husband's sperm, and on Feb. 10 of this year, she gave birth to twins—one boy and one girl. "Lianna and Shawn saved us," says Barattini's husband Kevin, 35, who met Fives' husband about 20 years ago through volunteer firefighting. The couple thought they might never have children, since the high costs of adoption or hiring a surrogate were beyond their reach. Both couples, who live in New York, went to nearly all of the doctor appointments, and everyone was in the room when Dominic and Luciana were born. The Barattinis chose the Fives as the babies' godparents, and Nicole Barattini—who doesn't have a sister and whose mom was over the age to carry for her, per Redbook—says she considers Fives to be like a sister to her now. The Fives were even honored at a county event over Mother's Day weekend for their good deed, Newsday reported. "I will always have a connection to the twins," says Fives, "but I had no problem with letting them go." (In California, a woman gave birth to her own grandson.)