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A lesbian couple desperate for one child have given birth to four – two sets of twins who arrived a few weeks apart. Laura Calvin and Sheri Green, from Naples, Florida, defied the odds when they both became pregnant through artificial insemination and were amazed to discover later that they were both expecting twins. The [...]

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Mariah Carey’s twins are quickly developing a taste for the millionaire lifestyle. The singer hosted a lavish first birthday party for Moroccan and Monroe in Paris, where she showered them with gifts, including a toy Ferrari. This is how I roll: Mariah Carey’s daughter takes a spin in her new toy Ferrari at a birthday [...]

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A pair of teenage twin girls have been banned from a market town for repeatedly causing mayhem over a three-year period. The 18-year-old pair are not allowed to enter West Malling’s historic centre after being handed a two-year Asbo by magistrates. Sevenoaks Magistrates court heard that Chelsea Shannon Scott and her twin sister Leonie Vicky [...]

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London twins are wanted to take part in a major study into the impact  of pollution on health. The research could provide evidence of a link to chronic conditions such as heart disease and asthma. Every year, more than 4,000 people in the capital die prematurely from pollution. Researchers at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and [...]

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For more than a decade, Misty and Brian Baker have tried for a child without any luck. But now, with the help of their best friends, they are making up for lost time – as they are expecting FOUR babies after both Misty and her surrogate fell pregnant with twins. When the Bakers, who live [...]

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Two premature twins given 10 times the prescribed amount of morphine at a scandal hit hospital would have probably survived an inquest has been told. The drug was given to Alfie and Harry McQuillan after they had been born 13 weeks early. An expert in premature babies said on the balance of probabilities the tiny [...]

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A Mexican woman who claimed to be pregnant with nine babies is not expecting and is simply clinically obese, health officials have said. They have also revealed it would be impossible for Karla Vanessa Perez to be carrying nonuplets because her fallopian tubes have been removed. The 32-year-old has also been branded a liar for [...]

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Doctors have given a clean bill of health to two-year-old twins who were born attached at the chest and abdomen and who underwent separation surgery. The two toddlers are happy and healthy six months after going through the grueling surgery six months ago at Stanford University’s hospital. Angelina and Angelica Sabuco were the guests of [...]

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Ms Suleman wants a fresh start and said in a statement that filing for bankruptcy is what’s best for her children, according to the Orange County Register.   “I have had to make some very difficult decisions this year, and filing Chapter 7 was one of them,” Ms Suleman said. The La Habra mother of [...]

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Waiting eagerly for news of their places at school six-year-old twins Ben and Oliver Wilby could hardly contain their excitement. But their joy was short lived when finally the letter came through saying only Oliver had been given a place. As a result single mother Maggie Wilby has had no choice but to home school [...]

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A lottery winner who frittered away her £1.9m fortune on drink, drugs and luxury items is expecting twins – and she says the feeling is even better than when she hit the jackpot. Callie Rogers, who was 16 when she matched all six numbers to become Britain’s youngest lottery winner, is pregnant with two boys [...]

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Karla Vanessa Perez Castaneda, in an interview with Mexico’s main broadcaster Televisa, spoke of her surprise at discovering she was carrying so many babies. “It’s miraculous. Doctors tell me there are six girls and three boys,” she said. “It’s much too early to start thinking about names for them all. I just hope that everything [...]

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Sophomore students at a Connecticut school are seeing double, sixteen times a day. 32 student from Staples High School in Westport are hoping to set a world record for being the largest gaggle of twins in one class, beating the current Guinness World Record of 13, held by Pomperaug High School in Southbury, Connecticut. The [...]

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A Mexican woman has got a lot on her hands after getting pregnant with an incredible nine babies. The country’s main broadcaster Televisa reported last night that Karla Vanessa Perez is expecting six girls and three boys. Perez was described as coming from the northeastern state of Coahuila, which borders the U.S. state of Texas. New mother [...]

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Christine Bolden collapsed on March 1 while walking in Michigan, Detroit, with her boyfriend and three-year-old son. Five days later she was pronounced brain-dead by doctors and an obituary for the 26-year-old lists her date of death as March 6. But almost a month later she has given birth to twins after being kept on life [...]

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A 26-year-old woman who suffered a fatal brain aneurysm gave birth to twin boys at a Michigan hospital weeks after she was declared officially brain dead. Christine Bolden, who had been happy and healthy only moments before the tragic March incident, suddenly got a horrible pain and fell to the ground.   Two aneurysms, hidden since [...]

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During 20 years as an investigative reporter I’ve been shot at, beaten, abused on the streets in front of my children and forced to move house more than 50 times because of death threats. I’ve often asked myself why I have followed this dangerous road. On any single day I could meet gangsters who openly [...]

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Toddler twins Isobel and Alexander love to spend time together – but they must often stay apart in case they give each other life-threatening infections. Mother Zoe Elliott has to separate them because both her children have cystic fibrosis, which means they are prone to picking up bugs and infections. So if one of them [...]

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One is black and has big brown eyes. The other is a blue-eyed blonde with the palest of skin. They might share the same cheeky smile, but side by side, they could hardly look less alike. Yet remarkably, Kian and Remee are twins, born a minute apart. The pair owe their appearance to a one in a [...]

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A baby boy born with six legs has had a successful operation to remove his four extra limbs, doctors said today. The youngster from Karachi in Pakistan was believed to have had a parasitic twin, which had not developed properly in the womb, resulting in the extra legs. Doctors examined MRI, blood tests, and CT [...]

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For many women, a thoughtful card from their son or daughter is enough to make them feel extra special on Mother’s Day. But for one woman, just being able to call herself a mother is more than enough. Genevieve Drinkwater was told by doctors she had less than a one per cent chance of conceiving [...]

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Jane Kassim was born without a womb and her cousin Amy Bellamy, 26, agreed to help fulfil her dream to have children of her own. Amy gave birth by Caesarean section to Isla Jane and Ivy May but Jane was stunned when she was told she wasn’t entitled to maternity leave or the statutory pay [...]

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Pakistani doctors are battling the odds to save a newborn baby born with a rare genetic condition that has left him with six legs. The one-week-old boy is believed to be one of parasitic twins. His conjoined twin was born prematurely and incompletely developed, which resulted in the second child having the extra legs, said Jamal [...]

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A woman who spent 55 years looking for her twin sister after the pair were separated as babies finally tracked her down. Jennifer Wilson and her sister Kathleen were both adopted shortly after their birth, with their mother unable to house any more infants. But after learning of her twin, Jennifer eventually found her sibling, [...]

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Lisa Bowen had three extra special reasons to celebrate Mother’s Day at the weekend after her miracle triplets survived against the odds. Nurse Lisa, 31, feared her babies would die after they suffered heart failure, breathing difficulties and numerous infections after they were born 10 weeks early. Mrs Bowen and her husband Darren had been [...]

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It was all smiles in this wedding photo – a beautiful bride, her groom and his identical brother. And it was clearly hard to tell them apart… Ralph Evans is toasting 60 years of marriage to wife June – after he posed as his twin brother to get a date with her. Mr Evans, from [...]

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Often people stop me in the street, shaking their heads. “How do you cope?” comes the cry, but I don’t think I’m any more stressed than the next mother. Life is busy, but I enjoy it, which is a strange surprise to many people. Every moment of my day is taken up with my children [...]

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They play side by side, walk hand in hand to school and love dressing-up games – the picture of happiness at seven years old. Yet these twin girls were born conjoined – bonded at the spine with a question-mark over whether they could survive. Thanks to British medical expertise, Mille and Signe (pronounced Milla and [...]

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The father of conjoined twins who were separated by surgeons at three months old today told of the astonishing recovery that has seen them grow into healthy seven year olds. Signe and Mille, who were born fused at the spine, underwent an eight-hour operation at Great Ormond Street Hospital in 2005. It was only the [...]

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A trio of American siblings have equalled a world record – after they were each born on three consecutive leap year days. David and Louise Estes’ daughter Jade was born on Wednesday morning in Provo, south of Salt Lake City, Utah. It came four years after their son Remington was born on February 29, 2008, [...]

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A woman in Bristol has given birth to quadruplets, who were all born on leap year day, 11 weeks early. Emma Robbins gave birth to four boys by Caesarean section within six minutes of each other on Wednesday night at St Michael’s maternity hospital. Zachary, Rueben, Joshua and Samuel are all said to be doing [...]

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These three tiny brothers are believed to be the most premature triplets ever to have survived in Britain – after they were born 15 weeks early. Max, Harvey and Lucas Udell each weighed under 2lbs when they were born at 24 weeks and five days. They were delivered by emergency caesarean section and whisked straight [...]

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Four years ago, my twin daughters were born, but this week they will celebrate their first real birthday. They were delivered some time in the morning (it was a long labour) on 29 February 2008, but the implications of having leap-day babies didn’t sink in until I took them for their six-week check-up. The GP’s [...]

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An 18-month-old girl was critically ill tonight after a motorbike crashed into her pushchair, also injuring her twin brother and mother. Officers and the ambulance service were called to City Way, Doxford Park, Sunderland, after the collision which happened in the carriageway. A Northumbria Police spokeswoman said the girl was initially treated at Sunderland Royal [...]

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The gulp-we’re-on-our-own moment came when we slammed the doors of the car shut against the howling wind outside the hospital. I craned my neck but, in the gloom, could only see the outlines of two baby seats in which were swaddled two small bundles. There was no way we could tell if these strange and [...]

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Surrounded by banks of life-saving machines and almost two dozen medical professionals, tiny Zheng Qianyan and Zheng Wanyu are about to undergo the most dangerous operation of their young lives. This amazing and dramatic photo shows the beginning of hours of risky and specialist surgery to separate the conjoined twins in the province of Hunan [...]

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Twin brothers Osbrany and Osmany Montes De Oca enlisted in the Marines together shortly after they graduated high school. Now, just over a year later, Osmany is returning from Afghanistan to attend his brother’s funeral after Osbrany was killed on Friday while serving in Helmand Province. ‘They were always talking about the Marines,’ said the [...]

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No matter what happens to Billy and Kaydon James from now on, they can count themselves extremely lucky to be alive… and to have each other. The twin boys were given the slimmest odds of survival after arriving at just 23 weeks. But the brothers – who each weighed less than 2lb when born – [...]

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Michael and Dan Smith, 20, are still determined to finish university and get good jobs after being left almost totally blind by Leber’s Optic Neuropathy. Michael, who is in football training for this year’s Paralympic Games, lost his sight in a matter of weeks while in his first year at Bart’s and the London School [...]

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This is the adorable video of wide-eyed baby Charlotte being amazed by her father’s playful noises. The new viral clip has received over 300,000 views in just a few days, and shows a restless Charlotte on her dad’s knees looking in wonderment at the noises he makes, which appear to stop her crying. Dad Adam [...]

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Two 102-year-old sisters who live in Aberdeenshire have been recognised as the world’s oldest living twins by the Guinness World Records. Edith Ritchie and Evelyn “Evie” Middleton were born in 1909 and reached their latest milestone in November last year. The twins, whose maiden name is Rennie, live together in Bonnyton House care home in [...]

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Twin boys who died in their sleep were accidentally suffocated, an Idaho coroner has ruled. The deaths of Gabriel and Tryce Medrano had been investigated as possibly suspicious, but it is now clear that it was no more than a tragic accident. The Bannock County Coroner took the opportunity to warn parents of the dangers [...]

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Indonesian twins have been reunited after they were separated at birth but ended up living just 25miles apart in Sweden. Non-identical twins Emilie Falk and Lin Backman were adopted from an orphanage in Indonesia by different Swedish parents nearly 29 years ago. In a remarkable turn of events, they both ended up living in south [...]

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Non-identical twins Emilie Falk and Lin Backman – strangers until last year – were separated nearly 29 years ago. According to a DNA test the pair had done two months after reuniting in January last year, and which they shared with AFP, there is a 99.98 per cent chance of them being sisters. A complex [...]

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Surgeons were today preparing to operate on a three-year-old boy to remove the body of a ‘parasitic twin’ growing inside his stomach. Isbac Pacunda was left with the rare condition after absorbing his would-be sibling inside the womb. Doctors in Peru say the partially formed foetus has eyes, bones and hair on the cranium, but [...]

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An Afghan mother has given birth to six children at a hospital in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. The woman was not aware she was carrying more than one child and had not received fertility treatment. Doctors say the mother arrived in hospital on Monday and gave birth on the same day to three boys [...]

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Graduating from university is normally an occasion for a family get-together. And this was certainly a big celebration for the Ogunsanya quadruplets who were handed their well-deserved degrees from the same university on the same day. The 23-year-old quads, identical sisters and the oldest by four minutes, Toks and Temi Ogunsanya, and identical brothers, Tobi [...]

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Twin girls who have been on a primary school waiting list for four years could be separated because the school both want to go to refuses to buy an extra chair for a teaching assistant their father has claimed. Mia and Hannah Hendry, aged seven, have been on the waiting list at the All Saints [...]

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Paul Weller’s young wife has given birth to twin boys – and the couple have named one after Weller’s longtime rival David Bowie. The 53-year-old rocker now has seven children by four women after welcoming his sons with Hannah Andrews, 25, on Saturday. A statement on the former The Jam frontman’s website announced the news [...]

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The family of a six-year-old boy are trying to raise £60,000 for an operation in America that would give him the hope of walking like his twin brother. Jack Smart has cerebral palsy and cannot walk unaided. He will soon need a wheelchair after outgrowing a special pushchair. His able-bodied twin Ben plays football with [...]

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