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Babies in the News: The Non-Twin Twins

Here’s a riddle for you: Two babies are born just one minute a part. They are not twins and one baby is three weeks older than the other–well, technically speaking. Yet to their parents, this brother and sister duo will always feel like a set of twins. Confused? This is the true story for one set of “non-twins”–Harriet and Thomas Millineux. At seven weeks gestation, mom knew something wasn’t right and went to the hospital to learn that she was carrying twins, but one had died and was being reabsorbed into her body. This is also known as vanishing twin … Continue reading →

The Final Stage of Labor

A few minutes after my baby boy entered the world, I felt another contraction coming on, weaker than the rest. It felt like a dry heave and like it was second nature, I gave a quick push. The placenta came flying out like a vaginal sneeze. I hope you weren’t just eating dinner while you read that last line. Don’t worry, I had the same reaction. The doctor held it up and I exclaimed, “Ugh, that’s attractive!” To this day, I still don’t know why I said that. My husband still makes fun of me for it because he claims … Continue reading →

Double the Fun

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Here is a fun scenario: imagine you have a twin, but you have different birthdays. Not only were you born on different days, but you were born in different decades as well. That’s exactly the case for two little boys who were born on December 31, 2009, just before midnight, and January 1, 2010, just after midnight! Identical twins, Marcello and Stephano Velasco were born in Tampa, Florida earlier this week. I wonder if only one of them will be counted as a tax deduction this spring… Little Marcello and Stephano were technically born minutes apart, but some twin births … Continue reading →