Vicky Green gave birth to Presley, who weighed just 680 grams when she was 26 weeks pregnant. But then her labor stops so she can keep his twin sister in her womb. Finally, Paisley, who weighs 1140 grams, was born by caesarean section – a whole 12 days later! As Green hugs her newborn twins, she can’t believe she’s made medical history.

The two little ones now hold the record for the longest period of time that twins have been born in England.

Vicky Green, who is finally home with her children, said: “I couldn’t believe it when one child was born and the other stayed inside. I just had to hope and pray that they would survive.”

Green, 32, a teaching assistant at a special needs school in Manchester, and her partner Darren Bradshaw found out she was pregnant just four weeks before Presley was born: ‘My period had stopped, but I put it down to stress. Then I took a pregnancy test.” But there was another shock: the tests showed that she was carrying twins.

The mother claims she couldn’t believe what was happening as, at that stage, she had no belly at all. Doctors told her it was because twins were positioned close to the spine.

Vicky Green had two weeks to get used to the idea of two children before she went into premature labor. Doctors at St. Mary’s Hospital in Manchester tried to stop him but failed, and Presley was born.

The mother says that he was very small, but from the beginning a real fighter. After his birth, her contractions stopped before it was time to deliver her second child and go home. She shared, “It was really the strangest feeling I’d ever felt in my life – I’d just given birth to a baby that was in the hospital, and then I still had another one inside of me.”

Doctors decided to keep it in, as there were no signs of impending deterioration in the condition of either the mother or the child. But 12 days after Presley’s birth, they decided it was time to deliver the second baby because Green developed a potentially life-threatening infection.

The twins stayed in the hospital until they got stronger, and now, five months later, they are home. And their mother says, “They are doing amazingly well and gaining weight every day! And yes, there is no one happier than me!”