Twins Are Born Holding Hands in Ohio [Video]

Two identical twins born in Ohio touched those present in the delivery room of the Akron Children's Hospital after leaving their mother's womb holding hands.

The mother of the girls, Jillian and Jenna, Sarah Thistlethwaite, a math teacher of a high school, said that her girls were removed from the respirators after they were able to breathe on their own without problems, having the chance to hold them in her arms for the first time on Sunday, as the best possible gift on Mother's Day.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Sarah Thistlethwaite said she didn't have the words to express how incredible it was to hold her daughters and know the're fine. "It's very good to know they're doing well and being able to hold them."

At the moment of their birth, the identical twins were born in a case of one in 10 thousand pregnancies by sharing the same placenta or amniotic sac, known as monoamniotic", and left their mother's womb while holding hands at the moment in which the doctors raised them to show them to their parents.

Jenna was born first with a weight of 2.3 kg (4 lbs 2 oz) and a height of 43.1 cm (17 inches), while Jillian was born 48 seconds later with a weight of 1.7 kg (3 lbs 13 oz) and a height of 44.4 cm.

It's expected that the mother of the twins will check out of the hospital on May 13, while her daughters will remain under observation for four weeks at the Akron Children's Hospital.

Doctor Memissa Mancuro of the Akron Children's Hospital, who has worked in monoamniotic births for eleven years, pointed out the risks on these kinds of pregnancies, highlighting the luck the twins had by remaining in the same sac without the umbilical cordons tangling, which might have killed them.

The pregnancy of Sarah Thistlethwaite was not simple since she had to interned into the hospital since the 25th weeks to be monitored 24 hours a day. The happy mother had to wear a fetal heart monitor on her belly, and was also forced to be separate from her small son Jaxon, who recently turned one year old.

For Sarah Thistlethwaite, one of the most emotional moments during her pregnancy was the visit of her son to the hospital with whom, in company of her husband, walked together in the hospital's gardens, according to USA Today.