In a bizarre coincidence, a woman from California gave birth to twins just 15 minutes apart but on different days.
Fatima Madrigal welcomed her son Alfredo on New Year’s Eve at 11: 45 pm. His twin sister, Aylin was born in 2022, when the clock struck midnight, according to reports.
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“It’s crazy to me that they are twins and have different birthdays. I was surprised and happy that she arrived at midnight,” Madrigal said in a press release, obtained by People.
Natividad Medical Center, the hospital where the siblings were born, shared a photo of the babies and wrote the birth was a ‘1 in a 2 million chance’
“At midnight, Natividad welcomed Aylin Yolanda Trujillo as the area’s first baby of 2022! Her twin, Alfredo Antonio Trujillo, was born 15 minutes earlier at 11:45 pm Friday, Dec. 31, meaning their birthday falls on a different day, month and year— a 1 in 2 million chance!,” Natvidad Medical Center tweeted.
Dr Ana Abril Arias, the family doctor who delivered the twins, said it was one of the most deliveries of her career.
“It was an absolute pleasure to help these little ones arrive here safely in 2021 and 2022,” she said.
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Fatima Madrigal and Robert Trujillo (not the Metallica band member) have three other kids in the family. Two girls and a boy.
The hospital said there are 1,20,000 twin births in the US every year. However, twin births on different birthdays are very rare.
“However, twins with different birthdays are rare, and some estimate the chance of twins being born in different years as one in 2 million,” the hospital said in a statement.
A similar rare delivery was witnessed on 31 December 2019. Dawn Gilliam gave birth to her first child at 11:37 pm and then her second child arrived at 12.07 am on 1 January 2020.
The twins were born at Ascension St. Vincent Hospital in Carmel, Indiana.
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