Twins break record with weight difference

Twins born in the UK have baffled doctors, and their parents, with a record-breaking size difference.

According to The Daily Mail, Pamela Sutherland and husband Barry knew that it wasn’t going to be a problem telling their twins apart because at 8 pounds1oz, twin Daisy dwarfed her sister Poppy, who weighed in at just 5pounds7ozs.

 It is the biggest size difference between twins ever recorded in the UK.

Mrs Sutherland, 30, who lives in Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, with husband Barry, also 30, said: ‘We just couldn’t believe it when they were born and they looked so different.

‘Even the midwife was shocked when she weighed Daisy. She did a double take.’

The couple, who also have a son Travis, three, knew from early scans that one twin was going to be bigger than the other as doctors had told them there would be a size difference.

Size differences between twins can sometimes be caused by a life-threatening condition called Twin to Twin transfusion syndrome, where one twin takes more nutrients from the other.

The condition can be life-threatening and surgery can be carried out whilst the babies are still in the womb to separate the vessels conjoining them to even out the blood supply.

But baffled doctors told the couple that their twins didn’t have the condition and luckily the pregnancy went smoothly.

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