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Children's Emergency - On the Road with the Children's Acute Transport Service

Monday, May 3, 2010 - 21:45 0 Comments

For the first time, a television series follows the remarkable work of the mobile intensive care teams dedicated to taking critically ill children to the UK's specialist hospitals.  Every year thousands of children fall seriously ill.  But there is only a limited number of hospitals with paediatric intensive care units across the UK.

A new BBC One series, Children's Emergancy takes the view on an exceptional journey with CATS (Children's Acute Transport Service), a ....


 

Twinsclub Lives - Frodo Baggins House

Monday, April 19, 2010 - 09:56 0 Comments

Twinsclub forum user maddrocks, Maddie, 30, spent a year building her intricate model by hand, making everything from the portraits on the walls to the household furniture and vegetable patch in the garden.

The hobbits Bag End cottage is where the trilogy - one of the most popular books ever published - begins and ends and is home to pint-sized hero Frodo, played in Peter Jacksons record-breaking films by Elijah Wood.

But even the hobbits whose average height is j....


 

Mum's two sets of twins in baby contest

Friday, March 5, 2010 - 13:31 0 Comments
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A PROUD mother has entered her two sets of twins into the Mail's Baby And Toddler Of The Year competition.

Mum-of-six Rachel Steele beat odds of 10,000 to one and gave birth to two sets of non-identical twins.

Demi and Dylan Stephenson were born four months ago, four years after the birth of their big brothers Corey and Lewis Shade.

Miss Steele, 25, of Preston Road, east Hull, also has two older children, Steven, nine, and Becky, six.

Now, the yo....


 

'Miracle' twins reach first birthday

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - 13:22 0 Comments

Against all the odds miracle twins Sonny and Lincoln Hague were today celebrating their first birthdays.

It has been a roller-coaster year for parents Laura and Simon Hague who were warned by doctors the identical twins might not live to reach their first birthday.

Just 22 weeks into the pregnancy, a scan revealed Lincoln had a cancerous tumour.

Laura underwent an emergency caesarean at Hull Royal Infirmary.

Aged just 48 hours and weighing just 2lb....


 

Do Twins Really Have a Sixth Sense

Monday, November 9, 2009 - 14:32 0 Comments

Alexandra Blair,
The Times 25th March 2009

Is there really such a thing as twintuition ? Are twins truly telepathically linked by a shared intuition?

 

Dr Lynne Cherkas, a genetic analyst at the department for twin research at King's College London, and a non-identical twin herself, has spent years studying twins. She has come across several cases in which, when one twin was giving birth, the other felt a shared pain, and even one where a woman had a ni....


 

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