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Newborn twins Aylin and Alfredo Trujillo came into the world 15 minutes apart but will celebrate their birthdays ____ different days, months and years.
Baby boy Alfredo Antonio Trujillo was delivered first, ____ 11:45 p.m. ____ New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31, 2021. His younger sister, Aylin Yolanda Trujillo, entered the world exactly _____ midnight, ______ Jan. 1, 2022.
Alfredo weighed 2.75 kg, while Aylin weighed 2.65 kg, according ____ the Natividad Medical Center ____ Salinas, Calif.
“This was definitely one ____ the most memorable deliveries of my career,” said Ana Abril Arias, a family doctor at Natividad Medical Group. “It was an absolute pleasure to help these little ones arrive here safely ____ 2021 and 2022. What an amazing way to start the New Year!”
Although twin births ____ the United States are fairly common, “twins with different birthdays are rare,” the hospital said, citing estimates of the chance of twins being born ____ different years as 1 in 2 million.
The babies’ mother, Fatima Madrigal, said in a statement released by the hospital that the twins will join three older siblings, two girls and a boy. “My oldest son is especially excited to have a brother and my whole family can’t wait to meet the newborn pair. It’s crazy that they are twins and have different birthdays,” Madrigal said.
Globally, twin birthrates have reached an “all-time high,” with 1.6 million twins delivered each year, according ____ a report from Britain’s University of Oxford published ____ 2021. One in every 42 babies is now born a twin, it found.
The study also said the use of fertility treatments was a factor in the global rise.
There were about 120,000 twin births ____ the United States ____ 2019 and 3,000 triplet births, according ____ the latest U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, with twin births accounting ____ just over 3 percent of all births ____ the country.
From The New York Times (edited)
