Mum Gives Birth To Twin Girls Nearly Two Months Apart

They stayed in hospital until the end of January, weighing 4lbs 13oz (2.2 kg) and 6lbs 6oz (2.9 kg) by the time they went home.

Dr Leila Hanna, a consultant gynaecologist & obstetrician at BMI The Sloane Hospital, Kent, said this case was ‘extremely rare and unusual’.

She told MailOnline: ‘The majority of non-identical twins have different placentas. They are from two eggs with two embryo sacs and two placentas. But the fact that they were born seven weeks apart is highly unusual. Normally they come out days apart, not weeks. She must have been a bit dilated, had her first child but then contractions stopped, her cervix quietened down and she was not dilated enough to have the second child. There is no cause for this, it is just an unusual case. She is lucky to have carried the second baby for longer so it could grow in her womb. These babies were underweight and so the risk of them needing respiratory care and neonatal support is high. In some countries the outcome is good for these babies, some countries don’t have as good care.’

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This news comes after MailOnline reported on the case of two twins born more than 12 weeks apart in Britain in 2013.

Maria Jones-Elliot, from Glenmore, County Kilkenny, went into labour four months early, giving birth to her first daughter Amy. Amazingly, her second daughter, Katie, arrived nearly three months later.

Their birth became a Guinness World Record as the ‘longest interval between the birth of twins’.

Source: DailyMail