BIG Twins

[The Purple Fuzzy]

Wow, that is HEAVY for twins!

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5213178&page=1

Woman Births Titanic Twins
Babies May Respresent Second-Heaviest Twin Birth This Century
By ALLYSON T. COLLINS
ABC News Medical Unit
June 20, 2008—


Erin Maynard of Winston-Salem, N.C., says she's a "little tired, but hanging in there"  a major feat, considering that her 5-foot-10-inch frame was carrying more than 23 pounds of baby just a few days ago.

Thirty-six-year-old Maynard gave birth Tuesday to what may be the second-heaviest set of American twins born in the past hundred years, weighing in at a combined 23 pounds, 1 ounce. As a testament to the babies' size, if laid end-to-end they would measure just over four feet in length.

Sean William emerged first at a healthy 10 pounds, 14 ounces. But his two-minutes-younger sister, Abigail Rose, dominated the womb at 12 pounds, 3 ounces.

Only two weeks earlier, an ultrasound had shown the babies at about nine pounds each  so neither parent had expected them to tip the scales as much as they did...

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[almondjoy]

All I can say is WOW!

[Sis]

All I can say is OUCH! 

A friend had twins and it was so hard for her at the end. She gained so much weight, she could hardly move. Her babies were only around five pounds. I can't imagine overweight babies like that. PHEW!

I hear that fertility drugs can do that.

[The Purple Fuzzy]

This lady didn't take fertility drugs or have diabetes, it's amazing.

[Sis]

I'm glad it didn't happen to me, I still say OUCH!   

[almondjoy]

* almondjoy would gladly go through that in order to have a baby 

[mesipie]

ouch...did she have them c sect. or vaginally

i hope she took drugs...epidural

[nicolejoy]

She had them C section. And at 38 weeks!!!! Imagine if they'd gone full term??