Woman Gives Birth To Another Set Of Rare Identical Twins Against 10-Million-To-One Odds
A 27-year-old mother from Colorado, Casey Saunders, was blown away when an ultrasound revealed that she’s pregnant with another set of identical twins. At first, she thought that the technician was just kidding about seeing two heartbeats since the odds of getting pregnant with twins twice were highly unlikely. It turns out that life’s full of surprises. Last year, on December 1 she gave birth to beautiful twin girls.
Casey had identical twin boys Hayden and Cameron ten years ago when she was 17. The twin brothers were really excited when their mother broke the news of being pregnant again. Her partner Eugene Goree took the pregnancy reveal very well too. ‘He was surprised but really excited from the beginning.’ she told Daily Mail.
The chances for this woman to have another set of twins were around a .0014 percent, but that’s not all. It was later revealed that the twins she was expecting are monoamniotic monochorionic, meaning that the babies developed a shared placenta and amniotic sac. Chances of this occurrence were less than one in 10 million. Even though there was a high risk of umbilical cord entanglement and the beautiful babies were born 8 weeks premature, now Maya and Laia are healthy and doing very well.Check out the photos of this big family!
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Nope, you’re not seeing double, this family actually raises two sets of twins
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This is Casey Saunders and Eugene Goree from Colorado are the lovely couple who recently had twin baby girls
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It’s the second time Casey gives birth to identical twins
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At the age of 17, she became a mother Hayden and Cameron who are 10 years old now
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The boys are very enthusiastic about their new siblings and love to hold them
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It quite rare to have two sets of twins. The chances of this happening are around .0014 percent
Image credits: Lindsey Ginesi
But no one expected for the babies to develop a shared placenta and amniotic sac. Chances of this occurrence are less than one in 10 million
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The pregnancy was risky and was monitored by doctors
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The shared amniotic sac posed a risk of umbilical cord entanglement
Image credits: Lindsey Ginesi
On December 1, 2017 baby girls were born 8 weeks premature
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Despite all the worries, now Maya and Laia are healthy and doing very well
Image credits: Lindsey Ginesi
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well aint they just the cutest. I assume she'll be buying a lottery ticket soon seeing as she's so good at beating the odds?
The chances of winning the lottery is 1 to 13 million!
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Am I the only one that notices that the boys are not half black?? So, she had twins from another man that is white and then pregnant from that black guy and got twins? Wow! She is the lucky one for sure.
I can't believe this post does not comment on the fact that both sets of twins are completely white. Now that is even MORE rare than having 2 sets of twins (and very rare that it happened TWICE!) and is quite amazing. It would've been equally amazing if all the kids were black with no trace of Caucasian characteristics. That should've been the main point of this post.
Genes are funny that way. But the older kids may have a different father (or not)
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My next door neighbor just had two sets of twins in a row. First set is not/girl, then 20 months later are the new girl/girl set. Their life is insane. Completely natural...no family history or medical intervention.
They are the cutest couple EVER!!! And they had 2 sets of the cutest twins EVER!!!!
If she does,she'll end up in Guinness' Book of World Records!
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I remember reading of a case where the second set even was born on the same day as the first, and by natural labor, not induced
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My great grandparents had two sets of identical twins. I didn't know it was that rare.
That is truly incredible. I used to work in NICU, and we had many multiple births. It was always interesting to find out what type of twins we had been taking care of. They used to send the placenta to Pathology to determine this. We had some twins we swore were identical, only to find out they were fraternal. Twinning is an amazing science- there are quite a few different types. These babies are beautiful, too! Congratulations to the parents!
I know a woman who's second pregnancy is twins again. First were male/male.
Congrats to the parents but where did the reported study maths? For a woman to have two sets it about 1 in 70,000 (as the quoted percentage supports, 0.0014% is equivalent to around 1 in 70,000). But as she had already had one set, the odds for this birth to also be identical twins were about 1 in 250 or 300. So not to exceptional at all. @stellermat: She did not beat any odds, the writer does not understand maths...
Peter Braat: You are missing the fact that the babies are Monoamniotic-Monochorionic twins. From Wikipedia: "Monoamniotic twins are rare, with an occurrence of 1 in 35,000 to 1 in 60,000 pregnancies." Still not 1 in 10 million, but not 1 in 250 either.
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Maybe the guy in the photo? It's possible to have children that are a different colour than you. My cousin is dark but his mum is white.
Load More Replies... well aint they just the cutest. I assume she'll be buying a lottery ticket soon seeing as she's so good at beating the odds?
The chances of winning the lottery is 1 to 13 million!
Load More Replies... Am I the only one that notices that the boys are not half black?? So, she had twins from another man that is white and then pregnant from that black guy and got twins? Wow! She is the lucky one for sure.
I can't believe this post does not comment on the fact that both sets of twins are completely white. Now that is even MORE rare than having 2 sets of twins (and very rare that it happened TWICE!) and is quite amazing. It would've been equally amazing if all the kids were black with no trace of Caucasian characteristics. That should've been the main point of this post.
Genes are funny that way. But the older kids may have a different father (or not)
Load More Replies... My next door neighbor just had two sets of twins in a row. First set is not/girl, then 20 months later are the new girl/girl set. Their life is insane. Completely natural...no family history or medical intervention.
They are the cutest couple EVER!!! And they had 2 sets of the cutest twins EVER!!!!
If she does,she'll end up in Guinness' Book of World Records!
Load More Replies... I remember reading of a case where the second set even was born on the same day as the first, and by natural labor, not induced
Load More Replies... My great grandparents had two sets of identical twins. I didn't know it was that rare.
That is truly incredible. I used to work in NICU, and we had many multiple births. It was always interesting to find out what type of twins we had been taking care of. They used to send the placenta to Pathology to determine this. We had some twins we swore were identical, only to find out they were fraternal. Twinning is an amazing science- there are quite a few different types. These babies are beautiful, too! Congratulations to the parents!
I know a woman who's second pregnancy is twins again. First were male/male.
Congrats to the parents but where did the reported study maths? For a woman to have two sets it about 1 in 70,000 (as the quoted percentage supports, 0.0014% is equivalent to around 1 in 70,000). But as she had already had one set, the odds for this birth to also be identical twins were about 1 in 250 or 300. So not to exceptional at all. @stellermat: She did not beat any odds, the writer does not understand maths...
Peter Braat: You are missing the fact that the babies are Monoamniotic-Monochorionic twins. From Wikipedia: "Monoamniotic twins are rare, with an occurrence of 1 in 35,000 to 1 in 60,000 pregnancies." Still not 1 in 10 million, but not 1 in 250 either.
Load More Replies... Maybe the guy in the photo? It's possible to have children that are a different colour than you. My cousin is dark but his mum is white.
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