Five years ago, on Valentine’s Day, Briton from Wales Joanna Gregory gave birth to twin girls. Four years later, Joanna got pregnant again and had twins again – girls again, and again on February 14, just 5 years later. The probability of such a coincidence is 1 in 32 million!
Joanna says she considers the incident a “true miracle”, despite the premature birth of the cubs.
Due to their low birth weight, particularly for Ella, the girls spent several days in intensive care receiving supplemental oxygen before being transferred to a specialist neonatal center in Newport.
Ava and Ella were born by caesarean section, the weight of each of the girls was about 1300 grams. “Lola and Lexi were also born small, but Ava and Ella were even smaller,” says Joanna.
Due to birth issues, Joanna was unable to hold her daughters until three days after birth. “It broke my heart that I couldn’t even pick them up,” says Joanna.
“But there is nothing to do, it was necessary. Joanna adds that she is eternally grateful to the doctors who saved the lives of her youngest daughters.
According to Joanna, neither she nor her husband had twins in the family – the most surprising thing for them was the birth of Lola and Lexi. And the appearance of Ava and Ella was an incredible surprise!
Twins are not born very often in Britain. In the past year, 12,000 sets of twins were born in the country and triplets were born to 190 mothers.
The probability of giving birth to more than one set of twins in a woman’s lifetime is very low, and the probability of both pairs being born on the same day is no more than one in 32 million.
