Twin sisters deliver 2 sets of boys on same day

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Twin sisters deliver 2 sets of boys on same day

Heads are spinning after births by Caesarean section in Georgia

 

 

ATLANTA - Two twin sisters are seeing double ?or make that quadruple ?after delivering two sets of twin boys on 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.

 

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6712865/

 

Vocabulary:

twin    
NOUN: One of two offspring born at the same birth.

ADJECTIVE: Being two or one of two offspring born at the same birth: twin sisters.

 

cesarean section also caesarean section
NOUN: A surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus, performed to deliver a fetus.

 

high-risk  
ADJECTIVE: Being particularly subject to potential danger or hazard: a high-risk surgical procedure

 

Questions:

 

1. Were there many children in your family?

2. What would reaction be if you knew that your family has a history of producing twins?

3. Were you amazed by what had happened to these twin sisters?

4. Would you like having a twin? Why or why not?

5. Do you believe that "the chances of twin sisters being pregnant with twin boys due on the same date are probably one in a million"?