A WOMAN has revealed that her children are twins, despite being born months apart. Hannah Crombie, 33, gave birth to her first child, Maddie, in July 2018. 1 Babies born months apart are called Irish twins Credit: Getty When Maddie was 16 weeks old, Hannah started feeling unwell.
At first she thought nothing of this, but when the sickness continued, she took a pregnancy test, and realised she was actually seven weeks pregnant. This meant that she became pregnant again when Maddie was just five weeks old. Speaking to the Kiwi Birth Tales podcast, she said: "I just couldn't believe it had happened.
"It took me a week to process it, and then I felt so excited." When Maddie was 11 months old, Hannah gave birth to a son named Oscar. Babies born less than 12 months apart are known are Irish twins, meaning that Hannah's two children are technically twins.
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