{"id":286118,"date":"2023-03-04T13:29:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T19:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=286118"},"modified":"2023-03-02T16:41:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T22:41:15","slug":"couple-two-sets-twins-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/couple-two-sets-twins-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple gives birth to two sets of twins in less than two years: ‘It’s a huge blessing’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While giving birth to twins is relatively rare, accounting<\/a> for just three percent of all pregnancies, one Alabama couple has beaten the odds twice, giving birth to two sets of twins in less than two years.<\/p>\n

Britney and Frankie Alba welcomed sons Luca and Levi 17 months ago. The boys were a monochorionic diamniotic pregnancy, a rare condition in which the boys shared a placenta, but each had their own amniotic sac. “They were at increased risk of something called twin-twin transfusion syndrome, or when one baby essentially gets too much blood and nourishment, and the other one doesn’t,” explained Dr. Rachel Sinkey, an OB\/GYN at the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB).<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the boys arrived healthy and without complications.<\/p>\n