Indian twins born six weeks apart doing well: report

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

NEW DELHI (AFP) — Twins born in eastern India almost six weeks apart and of the opposite sex are doing well despite low birth weights, doctors said, according to a report Sunday.

Twenty-five-year-old Babina Patra gave birth to the babies at a hospital in Phulbani in the poverty-hit coastal state of Orissa, the Press Trust of India reported.

The first, a boy, who weighed 1.3 kilograms (three pounds) at the time of delivery, was born on April 27. The second, a girl weighing two kilograms (4.4 pounds), was born on June 7, the report said.

The mother had developed a rare twin pregnancy, said gynaecologist S.K. Mohanty, in which the babies developed from two separate eggs that had become implanted in the womb.

Both babies were healthy and progressing...