Mom gives birth to identical twins 3 days apart in Texas: 'Very uncommon'

her twin daughters while she was still pregnant with the other.Carmen Martinez, a now-mother of three, welcomed Gabriella (Gabby) Grace Hernandez on March 7 and Isabella Rose Hernandez on March 10 at the Hendrick Health facility in Abilene, Texas, a city in Taylor County."Gabby was the first one born at 24 weeks and four days, and Bella was born at 25 weeks, exactly," Martinez told Fox News Digital in a phone interview.TWIN BROTHER AND SISTER CELEBRATE THEIR 10TH BIRTHDAYS IN 2 DIFFERENT YEARS: 'IT’S A VERY STRANGE CONCEPT'Martinez recalled showing signs of early labor a week before the baby girls were born, but she was able to delay the birth for a few days, so they’d be able to develop more.

Typical human pregnancies last about 40 weeks.Gabriella Grace Hernandez was born on March 7, 2022, at Hendrick Health, a medical facility in Abilene, Texas.

She was born premature at 24 weeks and four days. (Carmen Martinez) "[My doctors] checked everything, and they were still there fine," Martinez said. "There wasn't any kind of distress or anything.

But they had their own separate placenta and their own separate sac, and it was just for Baby A that it ruptured and not Baby B.""I’ve only seen this one other time in my career."Gabby was born weighing less than two pounds and had to be admitted to the hospital’s NICU.Martinez said she was advised to delay the birth of her second baby to increase her chance of survival.