# Longest time between same-labor birth of twins or triplets?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-same-labor-birth-of-twins-or-triplets/439804
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [March 2, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-same-labor-birth-of-twins-or-triplets/439804 "2008-03-02T02:59:45Z")
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-same-labor-birth-of-twins-or-triplets/439804/1 "2008-03-02T02:59:45Z")
If one twin was born close to midnight, and the other just after midnight, they’d actually have different birthdays. If it happened on Feb. 29, Leap Year Day, one would have four times as many “birthdays” during his or her life! What’s the longest period of time to pass between the live birth of two or three children at the end of the same period of labor?
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### Author:  [@ChrisBooth12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisBooth12)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2008, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-same-labor-birth-of-twins-or-triplets/439804/2 "2008-03-02T03:42:02Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
If one twin was born close to midnight, and the other just after midnight, they’d actually have different birthdays. If it happened on Feb. 29, Leap Year Day, one would have four times as many “birthdays” during his or her life! What’s the longest period of time to pass between the live birth of two or three children at the end of the same period of labor?
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I have heard of it being a couple days actually let me find my book of world records. And no if you are born on the 29th you dont have 4 times less birthdays. Just celebrate it on the 28th or 1st. The earth is still orbiting around the sun and years still pass.
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### Author:  [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-same-labor-birth-of-twins-or-triplets/439804/3 "2008-03-02T19:17:24Z")
There have been cases of days, weeks, and even months between the delivery of each child of a set of twins (or other multiples). I’m not sure how to find a cite for that, though.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-same-labor-birth-of-twins-or-triplets/439804/4 "2008-03-02T19:41:59Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
If one twin was born close to midnight, and the other just after midnight, they’d actually have different birthdays.
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Just a few years ago, there was a chance for twins to be born in different centuries. Milennia, even. Did this actually happen to anybody?
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### Author:  [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-same-labor-birth-of-twins-or-triplets/439804/5 "2008-03-02T19:48:14Z")
I haven’t been able to find anything about twins born far apart, but there was [this](http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/2011296/) from last year:
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> Everyone knows the pecking order in a family has everything to do with age. The oldest sibling usually rules the roost. But what if you get cheated out of the title because of Daylight Saving Time?
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> Peter Sullivan Cirioli was dubbed “Baby A” at WakeMed Cary when he arrived early Sunday morning.
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> “Yes, Peter was born first, it was at 1:32 a.m.,” mother Laura Cirioli said.
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> Thirty-four minutes later, Peter’s twin sister, Allison Raye Cirioli, known as “Baby B,” made her entrance into the world.
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> Because of Daylight Saving Time, Allison’s time of birth was 1:06 a.m., which makes her 26 minutes older than her brother even though he was born first.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-same-labor-birth-of-twins-or-triplets/439804/6 "2008-03-02T23:09:59Z")
What if it happened either side of midnight while crossing the International Date Line on New Year’s Eve.
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### Author:  [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-same-labor-birth-of-twins-or-triplets/439804/7 "2008-03-03T00:06:43Z")
Here’s the [story](http://video.aol.com/video-detail/the-tale-of-the-twins-born-8-weeks-apart/3122591142) of twin boys who will have their birthdays 2 months apart! It’s a video, FYI.
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### Author:  [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-same-labor-birth-of-twins-or-triplets/439804/8 "2008-03-03T03:03:12Z")
the guidance we got for the twins is that 30 minutes between the birth of twin a and twin b is the ‘acceptably safe’ window. my twin b was about 45 minutes afte twin a, and she suffered hypoxic damage that affects her 3 years later.
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### Author:  [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2008, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-same-labor-birth-of-twins-or-triplets/439804/9 "2008-03-03T04:02:11Z")
[QUOTE=LurkMeister]
I haven’t been able to find anything about twins born far apart, but there was [this](http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/2011296/) from last year:
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Doesn’t the UK have a law to deal with that situtation when it effects peerages?
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### Author:  [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2008, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-same-labor-birth-of-twins-or-triplets/439804/10 "2008-03-03T04:16:18Z")
My 93 year old identical twin grandmothers (well, one of them is really a great aunt but they come as a set!) were born either side of midnight but they were born at home so the family doctor adjusted the birth time of one of them so that they could have the same birthday. After a few years it was forgotten which one of them got adjusted, so who knows when they were really born or how far apart?! 93 years later it makes little difference. (Can see how it might mess up an inheritance though…)
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### Author:  [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2008, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-time-between-same-labor-birth-of-twins-or-triplets/439804/11 "2008-03-03T06:27:46Z")
[QUOTE=Nawth Chucka]
Here’s the [story](http://video.aol.com/video-detail/the-tale-of-the-twins-born-8-weeks-apart/3122591142) of twin boys who will have their birthdays 2 months apart! It’s a video, FYI.
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I remember hearing about twins like that.
According to this [site:](http://www.greatbabyproducts.com/Twins_s/129.htm)
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> Mrs. Peggy Lynn gave birth to Hanna on November 11 1995 and twin Eric on Feb 2 1996, 84 days later, the longest interval between twins. The previous record was held by Mrs. Danny Berg of Italy, who had Diana on December 23 1987 and her twin Monica on Jnuary 30 1988, 38 days later. The Keys family of Louisiana had their twins 95 days apart, in 1994 and 1995.
The site does not, however, mention anything else about the mysterious Keys family.