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Photos: Woman Delivers Twosets Of Identical Twins Twin- by extragud(m): 10:00pm On Feb 19, 2013


A Texas couple trying to give their son a little sister gave him four brothers instead, beating the odds to deliver quadruplets - two sets of identical twin boys conceived at the same time.

Tressa Montalvo, 36, gave birth to
quadruplets Ace,
Blaine, Cash and Dylan on Valentine’s day, according to a
statement from The Woman’s
Hospital of Texas in Houston. Ace
and Blaine shared one placenta,
while Cash and Dylan shared
another.

“We tried to stick to the A-B-C-D
theme when naming them,”
Montalvo said in the statement.
“We didn’t expect it, we were
trying for just one and we were
blessed with four.”

Montalvo and her husband,
Manuel Montalvo Jr., 43, thought
they were having twins until their
doctor detected a third fetal
heartbeat. They were then
referred to a maternal fetal medicine specialist, Dr. Brian
Kirshon, who found a fourth
heartbeat.

“We couldn’t have been more surprised when Dr. Kirshon told us we were having four babies and that they were two sets of twins,” Manuel Montalvo said in the statement. “We were trying for one little brother or sister for our two-and-a-half year old son, Memphis.”

Roughly 2 percent of all
pregnancies result in one set of
identical twins, when a fertilized
egg splits into two embryos. The
odds of having two sets at the
same time? Pretty slim, according to Dr. James Grifo, director of the
NYU Fertility Center.

“The chance of this outcome is approximately one in 10,000,” Grifo said of two embryos splitting after IVF. “This could also occur in a natural conception, but the chance of that is much [rarer].”

The Montalvos’ pregnancy was
all natural, according to Tressa
Montalvo. “No fertility drugs were used.


We planned the pregnancy – I
guess we just succeeded a little
too much!”


Because identical twins can share
an amniotic sac and a placenta,
they’re at risk for becoming
tangled in each others’ umbilical
cords and twin-to-twin
transfusion syndrome – a rare placental disease that results in
one twin getting less blood than
the other.

“Having multiples certainly adds
risk to a pregnancy in and of
itself,” said Dr. Kimberly Gesci, an
obstetrician at UH Case Medical
Center in Cleveland, Ohio. “One of
the biggest risks is preterm delivery and growth restriction.”

The Montalvo brood was born by C-section at 31 weeks. The newborns weighed between 3 pounds, 15 ounces and 2 pounds, 15 ounces.

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While extremely rare, delivering
two sets of identical twins isn’t
unheard of. In April, 2011,
Miranda and Josh Crawford of
Charlotte, N.C. gave birth to
identical twin girls and identical twin boys after undergoing in-
vitro fertilization. And in 2002,
Christina Tetrick of Wichita, Kan.
was pregnant with two sets of
identical twin boys, just like the
Montalvos.

But while the Montalvo house just got a lot more crowded, the mom and dad of five say they’re not done yet. “We want a girl,” Manuel
Montalvo said.


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Re: Photos: Woman Delivers Twosets Of Identical Twins Twin- by delighty(f): 9:05am On Jun 01, 2013
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