A special delivery and a first for the doctors and nurses at Corpus Christi Medical Center-Bay Area, identical girl triplets were born last night. Two of the babies are conjoined.
Sylvia Torres gave birth to all three babies Saturday night at 10:52pm. The chances of having identical triplet girls, 2 of which are conjoined, is a one in fifty million chance.
http://www.kiiitv.com/story/29087060/identical-girl-triplets-born-at-local-hospital
"Dalen was born at 8:37 p.m. and Christian was born one minute later," mom Christy Lawler told ABC News today. "Both of them, perfectly healthy, went to the regular nursery. I was looking over them and I did notice Dalen’s hands were different from Christian's. They were short, compact, and chubby and I said 'you know, maybe you do have what they were saying.'"
ReplyDeleteLawler, of Fargo, North Dakota, said that at 32 weeks pregnant a genetic doctor told the 26-year-old mom of three that one of her children could have achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism that affects bone growth in humans.
See: http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/north-dakota-mom-birth-twin-boys-dwarfism/story?id=30984266
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/news/a32488/twins-one-has-dwarfism/
Sienna "Sinny" Bernal and Sierra Bernal are the only known identical twins with a primordial dwarf in the pair. When Sinny was born, she weighed just over a pound and was nearly six weeks behind her sister in development. Doctors gave her a 10 percent chance of surviving.
ReplyDeleteSee: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/photos/girls-twins-primordial-dwarf-13793211/image-13793430