{"id":16754,"date":"2019-12-13T20:54:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=293032"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:51","slug":"rare-identical-twins-born-with-different-body-sizes-get-mistaken-for-mother-and-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/rare-identical-twins-born-with-different-body-sizes-get-mistaken-for-mother-and-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Identical Twins Born With Different Body Sizes Get Mistaken For Mother And Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">In December 1998, Chrissy Bernal of Texas was nearing the end of her pregnancy when doctors dropped a bombshell.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Three weeks before giving birth, Chrissy learned she wasn\u2019t having one baby, but two.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">It was identical twin girls all along \u2014 but one of the girls, Sienna, was so tiny that previous scans completely missed her in the womb.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Sienna and her sister Sierra were born prematurely at 34 weeks and with a staggering difference between them: Sienna has primordial dwarfism.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293034\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-sierra-primordial-dwarfism\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"627\" class=\"size-full wp-image-293034 lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/twins.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/twins.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/twins-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/twins-600x314.jpg 600w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/twins-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/twins-1000x523.jpg 1000w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1600px) 992px, (min-width:1200px) 768px, (min-width:518px) 480px, (min-width:325px) 320px, 300px\"\/><\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Photo: YouTube\/Barcroft TV<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">While Sierra looked like a healthy and normal newborn, Sienna was a pint-sized baby who weighed just over a pound.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Chrissy could fit her wedding ring around Sienna\u2019s entire arm.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Doctors said it was unlikely that Sienna would survive past 24 hours, and if she did survive, they gave her a 10% chance of making it out of the hospital and not being in a vegetative state.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293040\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-sierra-primordial-dwarfism\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"523\" class=\"size-full wp-image-293040 lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/sierra1.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/sierra1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/sierra1-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/sierra1-600x314.jpg 600w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/sierra1-768x402.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1600px) 992px, (min-width:1200px) 768px, (min-width:518px) 480px, (min-width:325px) 320px, 300px\"\/><\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Photo: YouTube\/Barcroft TV<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">But as you\u2019re about to see, she has exceeded all of the medical odds stacked against her. In fact, she and Sierra are nearing their 21st birthdays!<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Because of her sister\u2019s primordial dwarfism, Sierra is over a foot taller than Sienna and weighs twice as much. Oftentimes, strangers assume Sierra is Sienna\u2019s older sister \u2026 or even her mother.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Watch the video to learn more!<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><span class=\"empty\">Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-sierra-primordial-dwarfism\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 1998, Chrissy Bernal of Texas was nearing the end of her pregnancy when doctors dropped a bombshell.Three weeks before giving birth, Chrissy learned she wasn\u2019t having one baby, but two.It was identical twin girls all along \u2014 but one of the girls, Sienna, was so tiny that previous scans completely missed her in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45700,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16754\/revisions\/45700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}