TWINS BORN 87 DAYS APART COULD BREAK GUINESS BOOK OF RECORDS

The story of a set of twins born 87 days apart may now be heading for the record books.

Today, Amy and Katie are adorable
and healthy babies living in Waterford, Ireland, with mother Maria Jones-Elliot, father Chris Elliot and siblings Olivia and Jack, according to the Daily Mirror.

But there was a period when Jones-
Elliot said she wasn't sure of either of her twin daughters would make it.
“The doctors told me there was very
little hope of them surviving as they
were so premature," she told the
Mirror, explaining that her water
broke a mere 23 weeks into her
pregnancy.

Dr. Eddie O'Donnell works at
Waterford Regional Hospital, where
the twins were born, and helped on
their delivery team. "Most people haven't heard of this," O'Donnell told the Belfast Telegraph.
"You can end up losing a twin, it could be stillborn," he said.
Despite the odds, Amy was born on
June 1, 2012. Four months premature, she weighed a little more than one pound.
"Amy was fighting for her life in an
incubator and Katie was struggling to survive in my womb," Jones Elliott told the Mirror. "After hours, Chris and I said, 'Enough is enough. Let nature take its course.' It was the hardest three months of our lives."
Doctors induced Jones-Elliot a second time on Aug. 27, during her 36th week of pregnancy, the Mirror reports.

After about an hour, Katie emerged. "For a baby delivered at 23 weeks to survive, is a huge achievement from everyone’s point of view," Dr. Sam Coulter Smith, chief of Dublin’s Rotunda Hospital and an expert in obstetrics and gynecology, told the Irish Times. "For a 23-week twin to survive is even bigger because twins
often behave more prematurely than singleton babies. That really is right at the absolute border of viability."
Smith added that the doctors who
worked with the family should be
commended for their critical thinking in an unfamiliar situation.

If their claim of 87 days between the birth of their twins is substantiated then they will break the Guinness World Record title for Longest interval between birth of twins. We currently await their evidence."

It would be recalled that the  current record holder is Peggy
Lynn of Huntingdon, Penn. Lynn gave birth to daughter
Hanna and son Eric 84 days apart
between 1995 and 1996.