I did some headshots for a friend of mine, and after we were done I just 'had' to get a few photos of her twin daughters.... technicaly they are identical - they shared a placenta, and suffered from twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, where one twin takes nutrients from the other. It is a very serious situation, occuring only with identical twins. Not only did they share the same placenta, but also some of the same circulation. This allows the transfusion of blood from one twin (the donor) to the other (the recipient). The donor twin becomes small and anemic, and the recipient twin becomes large and overloaded with blood.
Here they are brand new (Xyara on the left, 3 lbs, 2 oz ~ Teneh on the right, 6 lbs, 4 oz)
(not my photo)
Here they are now ~ 2 1/2 years old
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