A Texas couple experienced twice the amount of love on Valentine’s Day when they welcomed two sets of identical twins.
Tressa and Manuel Montalvo became parents to a tandem of twins last week after they were delivered within minutes of each other at a Houston hospital.
According to the Woman’s Hospital of Texas, where the babies were born, the odds of such a birth occurring naturally is one in 70 million.
Montalvo says she and her 43-year-old husband planned the pregnancy but didn’t use fertility drugs.
In her words, “I guess we just succeeded a little too much.”
The Houston Chronicle
reported that the boys, who were delivered at 31 weeks, developed in separate placentas.
Born at 8:51 am, Ace weighed 3 pounds, 10 ounces, and Blaine weighed in at 3 pounds, 15 ounces. Sons Cash and Dylan arrived a minute later – Cash at 2 pounds, 15 ounces, and Dylan at 3 pounds, 6 ounces.
“We tried to stick to the A-B-C-D theme when naming them,” Tressa told the Chronicle. “We didn’t expect it. We were trying for just one and we were blessed with four.”
