Birth
Based on statistics, the Hogan twins were given a 20% chance of survival at birth. At birth, they were described as "wriggly, vigorous and very vocal." Krista and Tatiana weighed twelve and a half pounds, not six and a half pounds as reported by some media outlets, when they were born by caesarean section.
Read more about this topic: Krista And Tatiana Hogan
Famous quotes containing the word birth:
“Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of the highest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.”
—Rebecca Harding Davis (1831–1910)
“Heaven does not permit the birth of useless people.”
—Chinese proverb.
“... in all cases of monstrosity at birth anaesthetics should be applied by doctors publicly appointed for that purpose... Every successive year would see fewer of the unfit born, and finally none. But, it may be urged, this is legalized infanticide. Assuredly it is; and it is urgently needed.”
—Tennessee Claflin (1846–1923)