Separately, they may not be the rarest of incidences, but put together, they make for an extremely surprising event! And surprising is right: when Shelby Magnani walked into a clinic with her fiancé James Croskey, she didn't know what was causing the sharp pain in her stomach. But she knew that she certainly wasn't expecting anything that happened in the next few hours.
Doctors hinted at the possibility that the pain was due to pregnancy. But when they confirmed that Shelby was indeed pregnant, the shocker came when they told the couple how far along she could be: 6 months! And if the couple wasn't prepared for a baby they didn't even know was coming, they certainly weren't prepared for the fact that they were having two babies — twin girls.
As is turns out, even the doctors were wrong about how far along Shelby was. While the initial opinion was that she was 6 months along, she was actually 34 weeks (about 8 and a half months) pregnant. She underwent a C-section, and two little girls, whom they named Anna and Ava, came into the world.
And the twins, besides surprising their parents, already accomplished a major feat, this time by beating the odds as mono mono twins — twins who shared an amniotic sac. The survival rate of mono mono twins is low because of the risk they face in the womb: there is a high chance that their umbilical cords can be compressed or entangled.
The twin, born in late 2014, were able to go home just in time for the holidays, and have enjoyed home ever since!
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