This happens just 1 in every 80,000 babies Beautiful, raw, and real are a just a few words to describe the incredible birth seen around the globe. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The baby, .
and to bring them safely into the world meant their mum, rachel, had to be constantly monitored. you know, we said it all along that if this works out, it will actually be a miracle. the amount of people that have had to advise us, give us support. rachel talks of miracles because a chance of losing twins with the same placenta and amniotic sac, called medically monocrionic and monoamniotic, is 5a times higher than a singleton pregnancy in the first 2a weeks. after that, clinicians have tojudge when is the best time to deliver the babies. for gem and wylder, thatjudgment call came just short of 28 weeks. two days before their 28 weeks gestation, we went for a routine scan and that s when they started to see complications. the twins were successfully delivered. they are now 32 weeks old and doing well, but it s likely they will remain in hospital for another couple of months before they can go home.
you can hear more you can hear more on you can hear more on that story on bbc sounds. twins who were born two and a half months early, having shared the same amniotic sack, blood flow and placenta in the womb, have been reunited in their intensive care unit. wylder and gem chapman are monochrionic monoamniotic known as momo twins and they beat all the odds to survive. peter whittlesea has their story. can you see your brother? can you see each other? you ve spent a long time together in there, haven t you? to their parents, these twins are two in a million, but wylder and gem have a significant statistical story of their own. not only are they identical but in the womb, they shared the same amniotic sac and placenta. this only happens in around one in 5,000 to 6,000 pregnancies