ATLANTA - Two twin sisters are seeing double - or make that quadruple - after delivering two sets of twin boys Tuesday.
Twenty-one-year-olds Ashlee Spinks of Indianapolis and Andrea Springer of Conyers, Ga., delivered their boys by scheduled Caesarean sections Tuesday about an hour apart at Northside Hospital.
The women were six months pregnant when they found out they were both going to have twin boys due on the same date - Jan. 1, 2005.
Spinks came to Georgia several weeks ago to share the pregnancy with her sister, and Spinks' husband, Bert Means, flew into town Monday to join the birthing party.
The two couples said twins run in the families of all four parents, and that they did not use fertility drugs to conceive the babies.
Dr. Larry Matsumoto, a physician who specializes in high-risk pregnancies, said the chances of twin sisters being pregnant with twin boys due on the same date are probably one in a million.
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Twinning is such a fascinating phenomena. When I was pregnant with my last child at the age of 37, I was so hoping she would be twins! Fraternal Twins increase with maternal age, so I figured, why not get two?
The article doesn't say if they are identical or fraternal, but my guess is identical because their bodies would be more likely to be in synch fertility wise. And the article didn't say if the babies were identical or fraternal....
I think one of the more interesting articles I read was of identical twins marrying identical twins. If you look at it, technically all of the children are not only cousins but siblings! You figure they share the same genetic material not only with their parents but their aunt and uncle! I get a kick out of stuff like this.... cootiegirl
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Just think of the happy Grandparents winning the jackpot in this deal!!
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I saw a story on TV where two identcal twin brothers married two identical twin sisters. They lived next door to each other. each couple had children. Only one couple had twins but all there children all had simbling DNA. Even though they were cousins. Just thought that was interesting. I know Identicals had the same DNA but I would have never thought of that.
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""It's a blessing," Springer said from her hospital bed. "It's hard enough for a lot of people to get pregnant, especially pregnant with twins."
Springer gave birth to identical twins weighing just over 4 pounds each. Spinks gave birth to fraternal twins weighing 5-pounds, 9-ounces and 7-pounds, 4-ounces.
The women's doctor, James Dopson, said all four boys - and their mothers - were expected to be fine."
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