What's more improbable than winning the lottery? Having two sets of twins in one year.
The odds? Approximately 1 in 250 pregnancies results in twins naturally. Having two sets of twins in the same year? Well, doctors say there are better chances of winning the lottery.
Alexzandria Wolliston, from West Palm Beach, welcomed her first set of boys in March.
She had no intention of having more children at the time. Anyway, in May she learned about the second set. They were born on December 27, at 34 weeks old. One of the twins has just come home from the neonatal intensive care unit, where his brother remains, learning to eat on his own. Their mom hopes he'll be home later this week.
It's so unlikely that doctors didn't even calculate the odds for her.
"Oh yes," Wolliston said, "I feel like I hit the twin lottery."
Although, given that Wolliston now has four little ones under a year and a three-year-old daughter, there will probably be some long nights in the future when she's not feeling so lucky.
But the mom of five believes there may be something else at work here. Alexzandria recently learned both of her grandmothers lost twin boys at birth, which makes her believe that her four baby boys are a blessing from above.
"I always say that I feel like my grandmothers gave me their kids," she said. "I feel like they just sent them down for me."
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