Family’s joy as two sets of twins share same birthday

● 30 million to one odds that couple would have babies on same date

0 Identical twins Leah and Erin with their nine-year-old sisters Charlotte and Isabelle Parents believe they have beaten odds of 30 million to one after their newborn twins were born on the same date as their nine year old twins.

Zoe, 38, and Ben Sullivan, 42, were left astounded at the coincidence, almost the same odds as winning the National Lottery.

Full-time mum of nine Zoe from Lossiemouth, Moray, gave birth to identical twins

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Leah and Erin, now one, ten weeks early – meaning they were born on non-identical twins Charlotte and Isabelle’s eighth birthday.

Mrs Sullivan said one of the twins had stopped growing in the womb, so she went in to be induced ten weeks early.

It meant the four girls celebrated their birthdays on 25 January, and the day was “manic”.

She said: “Our family isn’t one in a million, it’s one in 30 million.

“We had a big day for them all and did more on the weekend. Now all our kids want babies on their birthdays.”

Mrs Sullivan said that Leah and Erin were meant to be due in April 2016, but would have been delivered in March as they were twins and could not reach a full term.

She added: “I ended up going in on 23 January because I was experiencing complications – Erin wasn’t growing in the womb and doctors were concerned so decided I should be induced early.

“By sheer coincidence, they were then born two days later on Charlotte and Isabelle’s birthday.”

Leah was born weighing 3lbs4oz while Erin was born weighing 2lbs6oz at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.

Erin suffered complications after her birth and was rushed to Aberdeen Royal Infirma- ry after developing sepsis. Mrs Sullivan said: “It was pretty stressful, we had Leah in Inverness and Erin in Aberdeen – 87 miles away from each other as well as seven children at home we were trying to juggle.”

Leah was allowed out of hospital at six weeks and Erin got the all clear at ten weeks.

Mr and Mrs Sullivan are parents to Elizabeth, 11, Olivia, ten, Charlotte and Isabelle, both nine, Noah, seven, Evangeline, five, Tobias, four, Lean and Erin, one, with one on the way.

Mr Sullivan said: “It was lovely to celebrate the day after the stress of Erin and Leah’s birth.