An Ohio mother says her twin girls are doing well after being born with a rare condition.
Thirty-two-year-old Sarah Thistlethwaite says babies Jillian and Jenna were removed from ventilators yesterday afternoon after they were able to breathe comfortably. She tells The Associated Press that she and her husband Bill both held them for a while on Mother's Day. The identical twin girls shared the same amniotic sac and placenta. Doctors say monoamniotic or "mono mono" twins occur in about one of every 10,000 pregnancies. They were born Friday at Akron General Medical Center, grasping each other's hands when doctors lifted them up for their parents to see after delivery. Here's a longer version of this story and additional photos from the Akron Beacon Journal.