[cougarnurse]

Can someone say 'ouch'? NC 'Big twins' tip scales at a combined 23 pounds - Yahoo! News

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - They aren't America's heaviest newborn twins on record, but they certainly tip the scales: Sean William Maynard and Abigail Rose Maynard weighed in at a combined 23 pounds and 1 ounce at birth this week, a North Carolina hospital announced Friday.

Freda Springs, spokeswoman for Forsyth Medical Center, said the twins were delivered two minutes apart by Caesarean section on Tuesday at the center's Sara Lee Center for Women's Health in Winston-Salem.

The boy weighed 10 pounds, 14 ounces; the girl, 12 pounds, 3 ounces. Springs said both babies are in excellent condition after their birth to parents Joey and Erin Maynard of Winston-Salem.
The combined weight of the twins is about four pounds shy of the combined weight of twins born in Arkansas in 1927, the hospital said. Those twins weighed a total of 27 pounds, 12 ounces, hospital researchers said, adding they could find no public record of any heavier twins than the Arkansas pair born since 1900.
They said the Maynard twins topped a 1997 delivery in North Carolina of big twins weighing a total of 18 pounds, 10 ounces.
Sean, tucked in a blue blanket, was held by his mother and his sister, swaddled in pink, was cradled by her father at a hospital news conference Friday. The infants slept quietly through their first public appearance.

I can understand the section..... Wanna bet she's a diabetic, or has/had gestational diabetes??

[cassioo]

makes you wonder why doctors then want to deliver twins early (not the ones with problems) just because there are 2 of them. My grandmother and her twin were over 9 each in 1905 born at home.

[cougarnurse]

My grandmother's older sister had 3 kids all over 9 pounds, delivered AT home, with a midwife. In fact, gram's mother was a midwife, also.

I still think we're missing part of the story, like gestational diabetes. That seems to be occuring alot lately.