Meet the Twins Born A Year Apart After Mom Goes Into Premature Labor

9Two little miracles

Maria Jones Elliot calls her daughters two little miracles. Amy was born weighing just 1lbs 3 oz but soon after she was born, Maria’s contractions stopped. Doctors then decided it would be risky to deliver Katie by other means and felt she would be safer inside the womb. She was born 87 days later on August 27 and weighed a healthy 5 lbs 10 Oz.

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10Doctors were surprised how they survived

Doctors commented that their survival was the ‘medical equivalent of a lottery win' and said they 'had never seen anything like it in their careers'. The remarkable incident will now be entered into the Guinness Book of World records as the 'longest interval between the birth of twins'. 

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11Her prayers were answered

Maria Elliot 34 who belongs to Glenmore Co Kilkenny felt her little girls were miracles because 'As I held Amy for the first time I stroked my bump and prayed to God for a miracle.” She says she prayed to God to keep her girls safe and well and it seems her prayers were answered although it seems God decided to create his own little twist to the tale.

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12She believed in hope

These weren’t twins born a year apart, they were a whole 87 days apart and it was a traumatic ordeal for Maria who described how Amy fought for her life in an incubator while Katie struggled inside her womb. 'Usually, you experience nothing but joy at the birth of a new baby, but it was so achingly bittersweet as both of their lives hung in the balance.” She and her husband Chris described it as the hardest 3 months of their lives but they also believed that where there’s life, there’s hope!!

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