Vanishing Twin Blog

HUTCHINSON, Kan.  — Ian and Brittani McIntire didn’t plan on having any more kids — much less, twins. “We went in for our 6 week sonogram and they just said there’s one heartbeat and here’s another,” Brittani said. From shock, to excitement, to hearing news no parent expects. With a hole in his heart and an abnormal brain, one baby wasn’t growing like he should. “He’s only weighing nine ounces and his sister is over two pounds,” Brittani said. “His only chance of survival would be heart surgery but they wouldn’t do heart surgery because of his brain.” At each appointment, it’s been more bad news. Until Tuesday, when doctors captured this: “We didn’t really see much, she said there’s his hand and there’s her hand and it looks like they’re holding hands,” Brittani said. The sonogram shows baby Mason on the left, with his tiny hand wrapped around the finger of his g...

  With their long white hair tied back in ponytails and gold spectacles perched on their noses, Paulette Olivier and Simone Thiot are happy to pose for the camera at their retirement home in Onzain, central France. “This will be fun!” they say in chorus. There is no official confirmation that Paulette and Simone are the oldest twins in France, but they appear to be the likely holders of the title. “We’re being very spoiled,” one of them says as they show off the flowers given by the local council and fellow retirement home residents to mark their 104th birthday. Paulette and Simone were born in the central village of Limeray at 11:00 am on January 30, 1912 to Marie Lamolie, a dressmaker, and her husband Joseph, a carpenter. © Provided by AFP Paulette Olivier (right) and Simone Thiot were born in the central France village of Limeray at 11:00 am on January 30, 1912 Their entry to the world did not bode well. “We were premature,” says Simone, w...

A family will hold on to a sonogram picture taken Tuesday that warmed everyone’s heart. It appeared to show their unborn twins holding hands. (Source: KWCH/CNN) A family will hold on to a sonogram picture taken Tuesday that warmed everyone’s heart. It appeared to show their unborn twins holding hands. (Source: KWCH/CNN) HUTCHINSON, KS (KWCH/CNN) – An expectant mom got heartbreaking news from doctors – one of her unborn twins will not survive. But the family will hold on to a sonogram picture taken Tuesday that warmed everyone’s heart. It appeared to show the two holding hands. “We didn’t really see much; (the doctor) said, ‘there’s his hand and there’s her hand, and it looks like they’re holding hands,'” Brittani McIntire said. Ian and Brittani McIntire didn’t plan on having any more kids, much less twins. “We went in for our six-week sonogram, and they just said, ‘There’s one heartbeat and h...