A whopping 16lb 3oz, meet the heaviest twin brothers in England
HAVING two babies at once can be traumatic at the best of times. So spare a thought for the mother who has just given birth to England’s heaviest-ever twin brothers.
The average newborn twin weighs around 5lb, and Rosie Evans, 26, was told by doctors to expect her own babies to be small.
But in fact they weighed in at 16lb 3oz – heavier than an average set of triplets and 1oz more than the previous record-holding twin boys.
Anthony Evans, named after his father, weighed 7lb 1oz at birth. Brother Johnny, born 11 minutes later, was 9lb 2oz.
They were born by caesarean section at Hillingdon Hospital in west London and there were complications after the second delivery.
Mr Evans, 27, of nearby Hayes, said: ‘We nearly lost Johnny. He was not responsive and it took a minute for the doctors to bring him round. He is fine now and we’re just so lucky.
‘We didn’t realise they were the heaviest until Rosie’s mother told us. Even then we thought she was just joking. It was such a shock.’
Mrs Evans, who also has two daughters, Corina-Rose, three, and Katelynn, 20 months, suffers from epilepsy and was specially monitored throughout her pregnancy.
Her husband, who is a carer for both his wife and CorinaRose, who has autism, said: ‘I’ve been hoping for boys my entire life. But we’re certainly not in a hurry to have any more. I’m concentrating on Rosie and making sure she is alright.
‘When the doctor started talking about ‘baby one’ and ‘baby two’ last summer we were shocked. Our other children were heavy but we were told to expect the twins to be light.’
Until this week the heaviest twin boys born in England were Joseph and Luke Gardner, who arrived last October weighing 16lb 2oz. Britain’s heaviest mixed-sex twins at birth were Theo and Millie Ryder of Lancshire, born in 2007 weighing a combined 18lb 12oz.
The world’s heaviest- ever recorded twins, who tipped the birth scales at a gargantuan 27lb 12oz, were born in the US state of Arkansas in 1924. Patricia Jane Haskin weighed 14lb and her brother John Prosser was 13lb 12oz.