This Is What The Twin Girls Born Holding Hands Look Like Now
The twin girls born holding hands are now two and doing great! [Photo: Facebook/Akron Children’s Hospital]
On May 9th 2014, Sarah Thistlewaite gave birth to twin girls via caesarean section. As doctors held up the tiny babies for their parents to see and the camera shutter snapped for their first ever picture, a hushed silence descended over the room. Not because there was a problem with the babies, but because little Jenna and Jillian Thistlethwaite were born holding hands.
“My heart just melted,” Sarah told People magazine of the magical moment. “Even my husband got tears in his eyes — I don’t know that anybody in the room had a dry eye.”
Jenna and Jillian were monoamniotic twins, which means they shared an amniotic sac in the womb. Pregnancies with this type of twins carry the risk of the umbilical cords getting tangled and cutting off the blood supply to one of the twins. Up until 24 weeks, monoamniotic twins have only a 50 percent survival rate. And when they were born at 33 weeks, both Jenna and Jillian weighed less than five pounds and spent 30 days in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit).
Fast forward two years and the girls are still clutching on to each other’s hands as they skip their way through life.
Sharing a picture of the twins to their Facebook page, Akron Children’s Hospital, the hospital where the girls were born, revealed that the girls are doing just great.
“Remember Jenna and Jillian Thistlethwaite, the mono mono twins? The girls spent 30 days in the NICU at Akron Children’s after being born holding hands on Mother’s Day in 2014. They are now two years old and Mom says they are doing swimmingly,” they wrote.
The twins were tiny when they were first born [Photo: Facebook/Sarah Thistlewaite]
Though the girls are developing their own personalities - Jillian is the bold one, while her sister Jenna is more shy – one thing that remains a constant is the twins incredibly strong bond.
“Sometimes if my husband goes to the store, he’ll take one twin and I’ll keep the other,” mum, Sarah told People. “When that happens, they both get really upset and ask for each other. They’re definitely really close. They’re like two peas in a pod.”
And if one of the girls is having a bad day, the other always finds a way to cheer her sibling up.
“If one twin is crying, the other will try to find a way to comfort her, like going to find a pacifier or rubbing the other’s back or offering a hug,” Sarah continued. “They always take care of each other.”
Bless! And the girls are already working out how to pull the wool over their parents’ eyes.
“If Jenna does something bad, I’ll ask her about it and she’ll say, ‘No, Jillian did it!‘” Sarah says. “But they look so much alike that sometimes I really can’t tell which one of them is in trouble.”
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