Double Double Trouble

[AnalBumCover]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6712865/?GT1=5936

Twin sisters deliver 2 sets of boys on same day
Heads are spinning after births by Caesarean section in Georgia

The Associated Press

Updated: 2:10 p.m. ET Dec. 14, 2004


ATLANTA - Two twin sisters are seeing double — or make that quadruple — after delivering two sets of twin boys on Tuesday.
<TABLE style="PADDING-LEFT: 15px" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=textSmallGrey vAlign=top align=middle></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Twenty-one-year-olds Ashlee Spinks of Indianapolis and Andrea Springer of Conyers, Ga., delivered their boys by scheduled Caesarean sections Tuesday about an hour apart at Northside Hospital.

The women were six months pregnant when they found out they were both going to have twin boys due on the same date — Jan. 1, 2005.

Spinks came to Georgia several weeks ago to share the pregnancy with her sister, and Spinks’ husband, Bert Means, flew into town Monday to join the birthing party.

The two couples said twins run in the families of all four parents, and that they did not use fertility drugs to conceive the babies.

Dr. Larry Matsumoto, a physician who specializes in high-risk pregnancies, said the chances of twin sisters being pregnant with twin boys due on the same date are probably one in a million.

© 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

[CraigSca]

This is one of those statistical oddities, not unlike a person winning the Lotto twice in 6 months. The odds that it would happen to a particular person is astronomical, but the odds are good that it WILL happen to someone.

[MrBug708]

One in a million? Something tells me he's lowballing it by a billion or so

[digamma]

I thought this was going to be a thread about In-n-Out Burger.

[tategter]

One in a million? Something tells me he's lowballing it by a billion or so

Via natural birth I would agree, but C-section for both? That makes the odds a bit better.

[AnalBumCover]

I thought this was going to be a thread about In-n-Out Burger.I was wondering how soon this comment was going to come. ;)

[Franklinnoble]

I was wondering how soon this comment was going to come. ;)

You had to give the guys on the West coast time to wake up... no In-N-Out east of Arizona, as far as I know...

[AnalBumCover]

You had to give the guys on the West coast time to wake up... no In-N-Out east of Arizona, as far as I know...You mean you're not up and about at 5:00am like me? Geez. :p

[albionmoonlight]

This is one of those statistical oddities, not unlike a person winning the Lotto twice in 6 months. The odds that it would happen to a particular person is astronomical, but the odds are good that it WILL happen to someone.
Something that would happen, on average, to one out of three hundred million people on any given day happens, on average, every day in the U.S.

Something that would happen, on average, to one out of 6.5 billion people on any given day happens, on average, every day.

[Bonegavel]

Beware the Wolves!

[Buzzbee]

Something that would happen, on average, to one out of three hundred million people on any given day happens, on average, every day in the U.S.

Something that would happen, on average, to one out of 6.5 billion people on any given day happens, on average, every day.
Well its no fun when you look at it THAT way.:rolleyes:

[Fonzie]

The article only mentioned one father...hmmm.

Could this be the unfortunate consequence of "living the dream" for a night?

[CraigSca]

Actually...can't the odds of this be artificially heightened as they were delviered via Caesarian sections? I mean...if they naturally delivered, that would be one thing, but it sounds like the hospital was really looking for a PR opportunity here and got it.

[lurker]

Dr. Larry Matsumoto, a physician who specializes in high-risk pregnancies, said the chances of twin sisters being pregnant with twin boys due on the same date are probably one in a million.


I like how they got a doctor to give us his precise, scientifically calculated odds.

[Joe]

the odds given don't take into effect the delivery date or method, just that they would be due on the same day.. so why would the odds be increased because of the c-section?

[Fonzie]

the odds given don't take into effect the delivery date or method, just that they would be due on the same day.. so why would the odds be increased because of the c-section?

Because you can schedule those in advance.

[Sun Tzu]

I thought this was going to be a thread about Stevie Ray Vaughan.

[JeeberD]

Beware the Wolves!

:D

[Bonegavel]

:D
I will never look at a set of twins the same again.

Speaking of that, there are a lot of things I will never look at the same again thanks to SK.