Mom Expecting Her Third Set of Twins

By Bridget Tyler on March 12th, 2010

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Brooklyn mom Gezime Amer can honestly say she’s never had a single baby… because all of her children have come in pairs.  She gave birth to her first set of twins 12 years ago, a beautiful pair of boys.  She and her husband were hoping for a girl with their second pregnancy two years later.  They got their wish. Except instead of one girl, they got two.

“Got blessed me with the genes to have twins,” said Gezime.  ”They came to me all natural, too.” Amer’s gynecologist, Ayman Shahine, says that he’s never come across a mom so genetically prone to twins in his twenty years of practice.  ”Her genes are like that,” Shahine says.  ”When she had her first twins, she was scared. Then she had two girls and she could not believe it.  Now, she’s an expert.”

Multiple sets of twins in the same family are rare.  Three in a row is almost unheard of.  Only 15 of the 26,000 members of the National Organization of Mothers of Twins have reported giving birth to several sets of twins.

While Amer will admit that extra babies have made her family, who live on her husbands hardware store manager’s salary, hard pressed for cash and time, she loves her children and is thrilled to have another pair on the way.  ”We teach them that we may not have a lot, but we have each other,” she says.  ”Blood is thicker than water.”

The older sets of twins are excited too. They love being twins and they’re happy their new siblings will have the same experiences – “When you are [a] twin, you know someone always has your back,” Said Kerima, one of the 10 year old female set of twins, “You know you’ll never be alone.”