Brit couple’s pair of twins beat 17m-to-one odds to share same b’day
April 18th, 2011 - 2:12 pm ICT by ANILondon, Apr 18 (ANI): In what happens against incredible odds of 17 million to one, a couple in Britain has two sets of identical twins born on the same day, three years apart.
Tracey and Davood Bageban’s identical twin daughters, Dolcie and Elisia, share their birthday with the couple’s sons, Diego and Armani, who are also identical twins.
Tracey conceived both sets of twins naturally.
Following the girls’ birth on February 27, three years to the day after the boys, Guinness World Records has confirmed that they are the only family in Britain to have two sets of identical twins born on the same day.
“It’s such an incredibly rare thing to happen and I know I’m so lucky to have four such beautiful babies,” the Daily Mail quoted Tracey, 34, a psychology student, from Gateshead, as saying.
Calculation of the mind-boggling odds was based on the starting point that one in every 64 UK births produces twins.
This figure is high because IVF is now more common and often produces multiple births. But only 30 per cent of twins are identical and the probability of two sets being born to one set of parents on the same date sends the odds soaring to 17million to one. (ANI)
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