These Alabama parents have been blessed two times over with identical twins.
Britney and Frankie Alba welcomed identical twin daughters Lynlee and Lydia in August 2022, just13 months after the birth of their sonsLuka and Levi. This week, the whole family sat down for aninterview withToday— or at least, they allstartedsitting down.
Asked how they were doing, handling being parents to four children under the age of two, Britney said that there are certainly moments where it can be challenging.
But although the boys, 18 months, started off the interview sitting in their dad’s lap, it didn’t take long before they started exploring their surroundings and even wandering off the set at points — which sent co-host Sheinelle Jones running after them.
“I’m auntie Sheinelle today,” she quipped.
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And when they were told they were having twins again, they didn’t think their ultrasound technician was being serious. “We start laughing because we think it’s a joke,” she shared. “And she’s like ‘No. I wouldn’t joke about this. There’s two.’ "
In addition to being pregnant with twins again, the girls are"MoMo” twins, meaning they shared the same placenta and amniotic sac — which make up less than 1 percent of all births in the United States, according to a press release from the hospital.
Due to increased risks, Britney was admitted to the hospital when she was 25 weeks pregnant.
“They would monitor their heart rates multiple times a day and every time they would check, I would hold my breath, waiting to hear two heart beats,” she previously toldToday.“It was very scary — but I had the best care.”
As for the story behind the siblings' names, which all begin with the same letter, Britney said that after naming their sons Levi and Luka they knew they had “to keep it going.”
“We really loved the name Lydia,” she said during this week’s visit to the show, explaining that they settled on it after hearing it in church one day.
As for the Lynlee, the mom of four added, “I have a really good friend who I think is just a superhero” who was the inspiration behind their other daughter’s name.
source: people.com