UK's 'rarest' twins were born over three weeks apart in different hospitals

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A mum has opened up about her experience of having Britain's "rarest" twins after she gave birth to the two babies over three weeks apart and in different hospitals.Kayleigh Doyle was expecting healthy twins and hadn't experienced any problems until 22 weeks when her first baby Arlo was tragically stillborn via a natural delivery.Medics advised the mum to prepare for the second twin to arrive soon and sadly that he would probably not survive either but it wasn't for another 22 days Arlo's twin brother Astro was born healthily via C-section.Kayleigh had gone home after the devastating loss of Arlo and stopped having contractions but miraculously, against all the odds, gave birth three weeks later and twin two survived.Doctors have been left "baffled" by the time between and Kayleigh hasn't found another twin mum who has a bigger gap.But the mum has found it extremely challenging only raising one baby while grieving his twin especially as they had "bought two of everything".The brave mum channelled her grief into supporting others and is now a NICU volunteer.

She told the Mirror: "After the trauma of giving birth to my first baby - I was gobsmacked when they said I could go home. "To this day, I still can't find a woman in the UK who can beat 22 days.

I was assigned a doctor by a different hospital, and we had daily check-ups in between the two births. Every day that passed, he'd say he genuinely couldn't believe it.When Astro arrived I couldn't believe he had survived all that time."Kayleigh fell pregnant with the twins in October 2020 and all her scans were normal.

She didn't experience any complications until she was hit with labour pains on March 15, 2021.She continued: "I was aware of all the risks that came with