{"id":18052,"date":"2014-05-12T16:34:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T16:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=18052"},"modified":"2014-05-12T16:34:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T16:34:42","slug":"us-twin-baby-sisters-born-holding-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/05\/us-twin-baby-sisters-born-holding-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"US twin baby sisters born holding hands"},"content":{"rendered":"
A pair of US twin sisters who were were born holding hands were breathing on their own after being removed from a ventilator, their mother has said.<\/p>\n
Jillian and Jenna Thistlewaite shared an amniotic sac and placenta, a rare condition known as monoamniotic birth.<\/p>\n
“They’re already best friends,” said their mother, Sarah Thistlethwaite.<\/p>\n
They were born on Friday in the US state of Ohio, grasping each other’s hands when doctors lifted them up for their parents to see after delivery.<\/p>\n
Monoamniotic birth occurs in only one in 10,000 pregnancies.<\/p>\n
Ms Thistlewaite, 32, was on bed rest and monitoring for weeks at Akron General Medical Center in Akron, as monoamniotic twins are at risk from becoming entangled in each other’s umbilical cords.<\/p>\n
She told the Akron Beacon Journal newspaper that holding her children was “the best Mother’s Day present ever”.<\/p>\n
“I can’t believe they were holding hands,” she said. “That’s amazing.”<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A pair of US twin sisters who were were born holding hands were breathing on their own after being removed from a ventilator, their mother has said. Jillian and Jenna Thistlewaite shared an amniotic sac and placenta, a rare condition known as monoamniotic birth. “They’re already best friends,” said their mother, Sarah Thistlethwaite. They were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":18054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[590,7,589],"yoast_head":"\n