Strollerderby : twins

One School, 19 Sets of Twins

JeanneSager — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:27:00 GMT

They're seeing double at Armstrong Elementary School in Garland, Texas. And double. And double.

The small Texas school has just five hundred thirty-nine students - and thirty-eight of them are twins. There are nine sets in the second grade alone.

It's surely a sign of the trend toward twins - spurred on by fertility interventions. These days, one out of every thirty-three kids is a twin (compared to one in eighty back in the day). In 2004, there were more than one hundred thirty two thousand twin births recorded in the U.S. - more than any year prior (that was the latest year data is available on, no word on whether it's risen in the past five years).

There's no question there are more of them, but I'd hazard a guess they're more spread out too. And they're bringing more attention. Perhaps because because the hot button fertility drug issue (hello Octomom) make these parents an easy mark? The years have also been marked by advancements in medical technologies that keep twin pregnancies going and keep premie duos alive.

And perhaps I'm the anomaly that proves the rule, but I never thought twins were rare. I grew up in the eighties in an even smaller school than Armstrong (there were thirty-four kids in my graduating class). And there was one set of twins in my class, plus half of a set of a twins (his brother failed a year and ended up behind us). My next door neighbors had identical twin boys, I have a set of twin uncles (born in the sixties) plus a set of twin cousins. None of these kids were born with fertility interventions.

Twins make up seven percent of the population at Armstrong. But they made up eight percent of the population in my third grade class.

Did you know a lot of twins growing up or are you meeting your first multiples as parents?

Image: MSNBC

Creepiest Pregnant Belly Art Ever

JeanneSager — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:26:00 GMT

I have never been a big fan of the pregnant belly as art to hang on the wall. Got your stomach cast? Good for you. I'm still not buying it.

But this isn't just one of those ultra personal pieces of art. It's plain old groooosss.

Are you thinking alien baby too? I'm thinking that Star Trek movie where the bug crawled into the guy's ear and took over.

Part of the soap line over at Bloomin' Bellies on Etsy it was brought to my attention via Craftastrophe, but they were just looking at this as an average woman's torso. Check out Bloomin' Bellies, and sure enough, these are moms a bloomin' in soap form. And you can get them as twins - with the baby from the black lagoon paired with the baby who has afflicted mom with leprosy!

So here's to mom, whose body couldn't have taken pregnancy any worse.

Image: Bloomin' Bellies

Top 10 Pregnancy and Birth World Records

Madeline Holler — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:01:00 GMT

Life's a freakshow, especially when it comes to pregnancy and childbirth. Litters of a babies, babies having babies, gigantic babies, and, fine, Octomom and Thomas Beatie.

The Mirror has compiled a Who's Who of procreative and gestational oddities.

(1) Let's start with the world's youngest mother, Lina Medina, who gave birth in 1939. She was only five years old.

Medina's father took her to doctors for a lump in her abdomen. That lump was a baby -- Lina was seven months pregnant. Authorities immediately arrested the father for incest. The baby survived. Turns out, Lina had been getting periods since she was three years old. See? Freakshow! (Albeit a sad one.)

(2) Next, we have the world's largest newborn ever recorded -- 23.12 pounds, born in 1879 to Canadian Anna Bates. Sadly, the baby died 11 hours after birth.

(3) Tiniest surviving newborn ever is Rumaisa Shaik, who weighed 8.6 ounces at birth in 2004.

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4) A Russian woman, known only as "the wife of Feodor Vassilyev," reportedly had a stunning number of children -- 69. This was all back in the 18th Century, so who knows if it's true. But the nearly seven dozen kids came from just 27 pregnancies. (Just! The Duggars are getting to me.) She had 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four quadruplets.

(5) Octomom. But after (4), she's kind of boring.

(6) The first pregnant man, too. Thomas Beatie, you know the story.

(7) The most babies from a single egg fertilized by a single sperm: the Khamsa quadruplets. They're identical.

Read the rest here (includes sextuplets, 12-year-old frozen embryo and more!)

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Photos: Mirror.co.uk

Twins Have One Mom, Two Different Dads

JeanneSager — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:33:00 GMT

Anyone who has operated on the premise that you can't get any MORE pregnant listen up.

A Texas mom has given birth to two babies at the same time, with two different dads. Technically, the little boys are twins, but their features were so dissimilar their mom became suspicious and went to lab to check the boys' paternity.

The tests showed a .001 chance that the boys shared a father. Which medical experts means mom Mia Washington had sex with two different guys within twenty-four to forty-eight hours of each other. And unprotected sex we'd imagine.

There is a happy ending for Washington and her twins - she's apparently made up with partner James Harrison, he's forgiven her infidelity and agreed to raise both boys as his own. They're now expecting their third child (well, his second) together.

And the experts weighing in on this case are all pointing to the statistical impossibility of this happening - one doc told the NY Daily News that without fertility drugs, the chances are one in one hundred of a double pregnancy in this manner.

Still, one in one hundred? With the amount of baby making sex some couples have when they're desperately trying, I wonder how many fraternal twins out there were conceived in a similar manner, only with the same father. Without that major difference in features, and without the difference in paternity, I guess there's no way we'll ever know.

Image: Daily Mail

Confirmation: Jon Gosselin of “Jon and Kate Plus Eight” Cheated

SunnyChanel — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:40:00 GMT

Following in the footsteps of oodles of TV reality star couples before them, it appears that Jon and Kate of Jon and Kate Plus Eight fame may be even further on the road to marital ruin. According to US Weekly, there is truth to the rumor that Jon Gosselin is stepping out on the mother of his eight children.

The tabloid reported in this weeks’ issue that for the last three months Gosselin has been having an affair with a 23-year-old third grade teacher Deanna Hummel (no relation to the figurine). This is fresh on the heels of Jon being caught leaving a bar at 2am with Deanna but no wedding ring. The magazine got confirmation of the hot and heavy action from five people “close to the situation.” Both Deanna and Jon have denied the affair. Deanna recently told People Magazine that "We're just friends…it's absurd that anyone would think otherwise." And Jon released a statement that they were just friends and going for a ride in her car at 2am was “in poor judgment.”

Deanna’s brother, one of those who confirmed the affair, did an over share with the mag and said in regards to Jon and Deanna’s rendezvous’ at the house, "A lot of the time, it was pretty, um, gross listening to her, you know, um — how do I say this? The walls are thin. Let’s just say that. I mean, no one wants to hear his sister having sex, let alone with a married dude who's, like, almost twice her age and who has eight kids and a maybe-crazy wife. Ick. Nast."

For more details from US Weekly check it out here (and more of the story will be revealed when the issue hits the stands) and they also claim to have obtained a video of Jon leaving Deanna’s home at 7:30 in the morning.

Regardless of if the affair is fact or fiction, do you think having a camera crew in your homes and airing your life for the world to see would ruin a marriage? Or do you think there has to be deeper issues at play?

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Woman Gives Birth to Twins Minutes After a Heart Attack

Madeline Holler — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:06:00 GMT

Labor is hardly a walk on the beach and maybe even doubly so when giving birth to twins. But still, having a heart attack before giving birth -- to twins -- and being told you're going to die has got to pretty much wreck the whole event to say the least.

First-time mother Nina Whear, 38, experienced all that -- including saying good-bye to her husband before her predicted death -- just before delivering Evie and Alfie, who weighed 3lb 11oz and 4lb 10oz.

Shortly after the twins' birth, doctors performed heart surgery. And get this -- mother, Evie, Alfie, daddy -- everybody's recovered nicely!

Whear suffered a massive heart attack on her due date and was rushed to the hospital, where the babies were delivered via c-section. A chaplain was dispatched to her room -- doctors had only given her a seven percent chance of surviving. She said good-bye to her husband and then was wheeled in for heart surgery.

Here's what she thought following the surgery (from the Telegraph):

"When I woke up after the operation I couldn't talk, but I tried to signal to the nurse to say that I couldn't believe I was alive, although I don't think she understood what I meant.

"I was so shocked that I didn't even think about the fact I had just had twins, I was just amazed to be alive."

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Family Evicted for Having Twins

JeanneSager — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:57:00 GMT

Ever heard of someone too big to fit inside a house? What if that person were two people - two teeny, weeny newborn people?

A Michigan couple learned their newborn twins put them over the limit for space allotted to people in their housing community this week when they received an eviction notice - just after the babies were born.

Mike Morris, Shawnee Crider, and their three kids, moved into Mike's mom's double-wide at the housing complex in Kentwood, Michigan shortly after Mike lost his job . . . and the family lost their house. Shawnee was pregnant with twins when they moved in, and she gave birth shortly after they moved in.

That's when Mike's mom's landlord sent a letter - three adults and five kids was too much for one doublewide, it said. Park regulations require at least two hundred fifty square feet of living space per person. Mike and Shawnee - and their five kids - had to get out.

Mike is still looking for a job, and this is his mom's house - his family who had offered to help them when times got rough. Where are they supposed to go? Although we don't want to send people back to tenement living, when families of ten slept in one bed in one room, there's a reason tenements were popular in the thirties - because everyone was broke.

I'm also not convinced a newborn baby needs two hundred fifty square feet of living space. For what? To stare at while they lie like a lump in Mom's arms? They're not crawling yet, not running around, and they don't spend a whole lot of time not connected to a person (even sleeping they need only the size of a bassinet - and that's if you're not co-sleeping).

Should the landlord update its rules or should they stick by them, regardless of the economy?

Image: WoodTV

Half-Famous Twins

Madeline Holler — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:13:00 GMT

I would guess that most parents of twins want their children to know that just because they spent nine months together in a womb doesn't mean they have to spend the next 90 years joined at the emaciated hip like Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

Take for example these celebrities, who you might not know are half of a twin pair. While one walks the red carpet, the other is way behind the scenes, if anywhere near the world of fame at all.

Scarlett Johansson and her twin brother, Hunter. He was a community organizer in Manhattan, until he joined Obama's election team in Denver.

Then there's this foxy funny guy whose twin status was a bit of a surprise.

Ashton Kutcher is twin brother to Michael, who was born with cerebral palsy. Michael sells insurance back in Ohio.

One might feel sorry for Gisele Bundchen's twin sister, Patricia, except that, as her model sister's manager, she's made a nice living thanks to the pretti(er) one.

Isabella Rossellini is the pretty one, her sister Ingrid, the smart one. Actually, they're both pretty and smart. But, you know how easy it is to label.

"24" star Kiefer Sutherland has a twin sister, Rachel, who also works in the industry -- but she's on the other side of the camera.

More half-famous twins, as well as pictures, here.

Any other half-famous twins we should know about?

Photo: FOXNews.com

Twin Bond Saves a Life

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Most twins have at least one story that indicates a kind of telepathic connection between the two, but few of the stories are as dramatic as this one involving a pair of 15-year-old sisters from the UK.

Gemma was relaxing at home while her sister Leanne took a bath upstairs when she suddenly got a feeling that Leanne might be in trouble. She opened the bathroom door and found her sister underwater, her face turning blue. Gemma immediately pulled her out of the tub—no small feat—and resuscitated her through CPR. Leanne, who had suffered a seizure in the bath, was doing well by the time paramedics arrived.

Gemma says that she would not have been able to save Leanne’s life were it not for a first aid course she had recently taken. She strongly hopes that this training will be mandatory. “Everyone should be made to do it,” she said. “You never know when someone is going to need it.” I’ve often been worried that I don’t have this training myself, and wish it had been a compulsory part of P.E. in middle school or high school.

Do you think CPR training should be mandatory? Do you have any “sixth sense” twin stories?

Photo: The Mirror

Pregnant With Twins? Skip the Amnio

JeanneSager — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:29:00 GMT

When I was pregnant, moms always warned me "avoid the amniocentisis at all costs." The test never came up, so I never asked why.

Now I know. A report in the March issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology says there's a definitive link between the loss of a pregnancy by a mom carrying twins who has undergone an amniocentisis (or amnio).

Before you start screaming malpractice, the numbers aren't huge. The study of one thousand nine hundred thirty-four women carrying twins over a sixteen year span found that three hundred eleven opted for an amnio. Their risk of miscarriage? Just 3.2 percent, not a heckuva lot higher than the 1.4 percent of women pregnant with twins who opted out and still lost their babies.

For women carrying just one baby, the risk of losing the baby after a second-trimester amnio is about one in two hundred. But until now, there was no way to tell if the risk to moms carrying twins was double, the same or what. Usually performed around sixteen weeks, the amnio requires a practitioner to insert a long needle into the amniotic fluid, withdraw some and test it - usually for fetal abnormalities. Before sonograms became commonplace, it was the best way to determine a baby's gender pre-delivery.

Now knowing the risk is higher for moms of multiples, researchers say, will allow healthcare practitioners to better arm moms with information when (and if) the amniocentisis becomes an option.

Did you have an amnio? Would this small increase in anticipated risk - but an increase all the same - affect your decision?

Image: ModernMedicine

Best of FameCrawler - Week of March 20th

Whit Honea — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:00:00 GMT

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Whit Honea — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:00:00 GMT

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Iron Chef’s Cat Cora & Wife Are Pregnant at Same Time

SunnyChanel — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:30:00 GMT

Iron Chef’s Cat Cora and wife Jennifer are pregnant! Both of them. At the same time. Yup, Iron Chef Cat Cora and her wife Jennifer Cora are both expecting and their new additions will be born just three months apart. It’s almost like having twins, sorta. Cat and Jennifer will be adding two more sons to the family to join their sons 5-year-old Zoran and 22-month-old Caje.

The couple used the same sperm donor for all their sons and in an interesting twist, Cat and Jennifer are pregnant with each other embryos! Cat stated that, “We decided that having them a year apart is harder than having kids as infants together. [Jennifer] carried my embryo and I carried hers. It’s like surrogating, but obviously all of our kids are equal.”

Is there a name for half brothers born to surrogate mothers so close in time? Instead of using a term like twin, ‘Irish twins’ , can they be called half twins? And having both partners pregnant at the same time would make for some very interesting moments for sure. Have you heard of partners being pregnant at the same time before? And do you that it's silly or sweet?

9-Year-Old Incest Victim Aborts Twins, Church Objects

Cole Gamble — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:00:00 GMT

A 9-year-old carrying twins allegedly fathered via rape by her stepfather underwent an abortion in Brazil Wednesday, despite the objections of Brazil’s Roman Catholic Church. Abortion is illegal in Brazil, a country that holds the highest concentration of Catholics in the world.

The stepfather has been in jail since last week.

Fatima Maia, director of the public university hospital where the abortion was performed, said the pregnancy posed a serious risk to the 80-pound girl.

"She is very small. Her uterus doesn't have the ability to hold one, let alone two children," Maia told a Brazilian newspaper.

A lawyer for the archdiocese of northeastern Brazil said the girl should have carried the twins to term.

"It's the law of God: Do not kill. We consider this murder," the lawyer said.

The church excommunicated the mother of the girl and the doctors involved in the abortion. On Saturday theVatican backed that decision.

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Best of FameCrawler: Week of March 6th

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Two Wombs, Two Babies: Mom Delivers Twins

JeanneSager — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:18:00 GMT

I'm a sucker for a happy ending.

Like finding out you have two uteruses (uteri actually) and getting pregnant with twins - one child per uterus. Oh, and best of all? Giving birth to two healthy little girls.

Michigan mom Sarah Reinfelder has uterus didelphys - a rare condition in which the two tubes in a female fetus don't join to create one larger, hollow organ. They remain two distinct parts of the body - uteri.

The condition isn't dangerous, and many women go on to have children, but twins from uterus didelphys are rare, which makes Reinfelder's daughters extra special. So far, only three cases have been reported in the entire world.

The larger twin developed in Reinfelder's larger uterus, weighing in at four pounds, fifteen ounces. Her sister was a full pound smaller. The girls were delivered via a C-section, approximately seven weeks prematurely. The babies are expected to be released from the hospital in three to four weeks. Reinfelder and husband Shane have an elder child - 10-month-old William at home. They were shocked to find out she was pregnant with the twins - especially because she was on the birth control pill at the time.

"I was like okay, and then they did the ultrasound and said, 'Guess what? You're pregnant twice!' and that's when I almost wet my pants," Sarah told her local TV news station.

Can you really blame her?

Image: Upper Michigan Source

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A Happy Miscarriage Story: Believe it or Not

JeanneSager — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:25:00 GMT

Who knew there could be a happy miscarriage story?

Not Claire Hunter. The British woman was six weeks into her pregnancy when she began feeling cramps in her side and was rushed to the hospital. It turned out her pregnancy was ectopic - the fetus had formed in the fallopian tube instead of the uterus.

At six weeks pregnant, Claire Hunter lost her baby, and doctors told her she may never get pregnant again. Until six weeks later.

Still experiencing pain, despite surgery on her damaged ovary, she was given another pregnancy test. She was pregnant - and had been for at least a full trimester. Somehow, in all the hullabaloo over the loss of her baby, doctors missed a twin baby boy, a fetus that developed properly inside Hunter's womb. She gave birth in the summer to Ryan, a healthy seven pounds and change.

Why this story came out now, I'm not sure. It's not news of a lawsuit - which I guess there would probably be grounds for (how do you miss a second baby during surgery?). But how do you sue when you have a happy ending? A chubby cheeked, smiling happy ending at that?

Nothing takes away from the loss of a child, but to see that little guy sitting there, grinning, it gives you hope!

Image: Telegraph

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Whit Honea — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:00:00 GMT

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Siblings Born Two Months Apart Aren't Twins

JeanneSager — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:31:00 GMT

Jeffrey and Delaney Ellis have the same mom and the same dad, but birthdays just two months apart. No years separate them - just two months.

The kicker? This isn't a case of one twin delivered early.

Jeffrey Ellis was delivered by his aunt, standing is a surrogate for the kids' parents, in November 2007. His sister came in January 2008, delivered by mom Kris.

Both kids are Tim and Kris Ellis's little miracles. After suffering through the stillbirth of a baby girl in 2006 and the death of her twin shortly after birth, the Ellises went through repeated bouts of in vitro that were unable to produce a pregnancy. There seemed one last option - Kris's sister-in-law, Susan Foth, had offered to act as a surrogate for the family. It was someone they could trust, and it was - they thought - their only hope of becoming pregnant.

In March 2007, two of the Ellis's embryos were transferred into Foth's uterus. One took. The Ellises were going to become parents. Two months later, Kris had a surprise for Tim. She was pregnant - via "normal" methods. They were going to become parents again.

Infertility issues are very real and very complex, but a lot of women have reported finally getting pregnant when the stress is off - when they least expected to become pregnant. It sounds like that's what happened to the Ellises. No longer worried about whether or not things would work this time, Kris's body was finally able to do what it needed to do. Not an easy road, but if only it could work like this for more couples who've been down the infertility route!

The result are two little miracles - two months apart. Jeffrey turned one in November, and Delaney will be one this week.

Image/Source: Bedford Times Register

Best of FameCrawler: Week of February 6th

Whit Honea — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:00:00 GMT

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The New Status Symbol - Twins are In! UPDATED

SunnyChanel — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:00:00 GMT

When I was pregnant with our daughter my husband was totally wishing for twins. He thought it would be convenient to get the whole breeding thing done in one shot, literally. Thankfully, we were only “blessed” with one. But apparently, he’s not alone in the lust for twins, he’s shares this yearning with a slew of Manhattan moms.

Apparently there is a trend afoot, according to Page Six Magazine, where New York City moms not only wish for twins, they’re taking the expensive steps to make it a reality. At $25,000, in-vitro fertilizations can realize those dreams, plus as one mom stated, “It's two for the price of one."

Then there’s the coolness factor, "There is an inordinate number of moms in Manhattan who view their children as an accessory and I can see how maybe having two at once might seem more indulgent to them," says Brinton Taylor of IvyWise Kids. It shows that you have the monetary resources to perhaps create and care for multiples and it can be viewed as a “conspicuous sign of wealth.”

"For people who like attention, twins are great," says Risa, a mom of twins. "If I am ever depressed, I put my boys in the stroller and take a walk down the street and people just go nuts."

Plus it ups the odds that maybe, just maybe, parents of twins can have a twin playdate with Angelina & Brad. Mom Risa says that with the twins she has been given a membership into an "exclusive society of twin moms who only want to hang out with other twin moms. It can feel elitist. But they get it in a way that someone with one kid will never understand."

UPDATE: (via Gawker)

Well, it looks like all the Manhattan moms of twins aren’t the selfish status symbol seekers as the story from Page Six Magazine implied. The head of the Manhattan Twins Club- Natalie Diaz – wrote in a yahoo parenting group:

“Ok Ladies, not sure how many of you saw the article in the Page Six section of the Post this weekend, but a while back I posted that there was a writer looking to gather info. A few of you were quoted in there, or should I say, misquoted! Long story short, the article was HORRIBLE. It was basically saying that moms are choosing IVF so they can have twins for the "status symbol" factor.
I received this email this morning:

"I am sure you saw the article today. I cannot apologize enough. The story I wrote and handed in was nothing like this. The tone was different as was the overall focus. In addition certain quotes were edited to seem more harsh and others were taken out of context (Risa's quote at the end is an example of this). As a NY mom who is truly in awe of moms of twins I am mortified. Is there anyway that you could post this on your website for me? I just wanted to personally apologize. Of course I am sorry to you as well. Again, it was never my intention to make this a snarky bitchy story bashing other moms. Wendy"

This was my reply: "Well, to say the least, I was shocked. To say that having twins is a status symbol, is saying that pre-term labor, almost dying during childbirth, dealing with premature children, then trying to deal with two crying, two sick, and all the rest of the wonders that comes with the territory, is in the height of fashion! I sincerely think your newspaper needs to retract the whole story. I think this should happen fast. I know this was not your fault, but you should know who to send this too, right. Feel free to send me their number."

Ouch!

Source: Page Size Magazine via Gawker

Best of FameCrawler: Week of January 30th

Whit Honea — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:00:00 GMT

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