Unbelieveable!!!!

I was just watching NBC news and a woman in Westchester gave birth to her THIRD set of twins She has 13 year old twins, 5 year old twins, a 4 year old and now this set (7 weeks premature).

I can't even imagine it.

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Posted by julz33

Naturally??

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Yep, so they say. Doctors say the chances of it are like 1 in a 350 quadrillion!!!

On the news they said she also has a 4 year old (single birth)

ETA - the article

Mount Vernon Woman Gives Birth To Third Set Of Twins

POSTED: 9:07 am EDT April 15, 2005
UPDATED: 11:07 am EDT April 15, 2005

VALHALLA, N.Y. -- Having a set of twins may be considered a handful for some neophytes, but a Mount Vernon woman says bring it on. She is a veteran mother of twins, three times over.

Diedre Johnson, 31, gave birth this week to twin daughters. Cradling her newborns in each arm at the Westchester Medical Center Thursday, Johnson said she has a set of 13-year-old twins and a set of 5-year-old twins at home.

Johnson, a single mom, said all her pregnancies were achieved naturally, no fertility drugs and no family history of multiple births.

Her doctor, Dr. Chaur-Dong Hsu, is head of obs tetrics at the medical center and said he calculated the odds of a woman having three sets of twins at 350 quadrillion to one.
© 2005 by The Associated Press.


the link

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Posted by julz33

Do you know if they were fraternal or identical?

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Hmmm. Not sure. Identical would be enough to get her in the guiness book I think though Supposedly fraternal twins are more common - but 3 sets from one woman with no drugs & no family history of twins

We had 5 sets of identical twins at my high school. It's funny that I still recall them all by name too I would think 3 sets of identical twins would make her a case study.

Wow...Can you imagine???

Well, at least she has had a lot of practice with twins!

I feel bad for her getting all this media attention too! I saw the report on Fox and the perky little TV reporter asked her if she was happy or excited (or something positive, along those lines) and the woman was like 'Uh, not really.'

I can't imagine having one set - three - OMG!

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Posted by teany

I feel bad for her getting all this media attention too! I saw the report on Fox and the perky little TV reporter asked her if she was happy or excited (or something positive, along those lines) and the woman was like 'Uh, not really.'

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That was a dumb question for the reporter to ask. Who the heck would be happy raising 7 kids alone

They said she has a 4 year old plus 3 sets of twins. I wonder if maybe the father of all the twins has a history of twins in his family?