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Twins Again...And Again
Aired July 16, 2003 - 15:44 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Six babies at once is amazing enough, but a family in Canada has set a record, having two at a time over several generations. It all started with the birth of twins more than 50 years ago, and the tradition continues.
That story from Todd Battis of CTV News.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
TODD BATTIS, CTV NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): With certificates to prove it, Germaine Campbell is in the Guinness Book of Records. She didn't jump from an airplane; she didn't run a marathon. Her record took 50 years to achieve, starting in 1951 and a bet with husband James that they would have twins.
GERMAINE CAMPBELL, MOTHER OF TWINS: So he bet a buck with me and then the twins were born and he gave me two daughters, one each for each -- each twin.
BATTIS: Daughters Joyce and Joan. Nice, but not really ground breaking, is it?
(CROSSTALK)
BATTIS: No.
Well, leap ahead 20 years or so. Joyce, pregnant, sees her doctor for a check-up.
JOYCE ROY, TWIN AND MOTHER OF TWINS: When I went, he told me, he says, "You're having two." I said, "Holy (EXPLETIVE DELETED), I'm having two."
BATTIS: The twin had twins, Deanne (ph) and Carol. Then, Deanne grew up and had, yes, twins.
CAROL ROY, TWIN AND MOTHER OF TWINS: I said, "You had them, so, you know, I'm going to be free now. I'm not going to have them. There's no way that.."
J. ROY: I said, "You'll see. You might have one, too."
BATTIS: Intuition, it seems, is also handed down. Like her grandmother before, Deanne's hunch was right. Carol had twin girls, Kelly and Ashley (ph). Three generations, four sets of twins.
CAMPBELL: When these guys kept coming, they said, Geez, is it ever going to stop?
BATTIS: This, of course, isn't the first northern Ontario family to find fame. The Dionne quintuplets wowed the world decades ago. Once a rare event, multiple births are now common. More than 4,000 sets of twins are born in Canada annually. Birth of twins has increased 35 percent since 1974. The main reason, this specialist argues -- the boom in artificial fertilization.
DR. DAVID YOUNG, OBSTETRICIAN: When drugs are used to induce ovulation, there will be an increase in twins and multiple births.
BATTIS: Not the Campbells. They're just on a streak -- one that puts them in the record books, and makes them very busy.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
PHILLIPS: Thank you to Todd Battis of CTV News for that story.
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Aired July 16, 2003 - 15:44 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Six babies at once is amazing enough, but a family in Canada has set a record, having two at a time over several generations. It all started with the birth of twins more than 50 years ago, and the tradition continues.
That story from Todd Battis of CTV News.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
TODD BATTIS, CTV NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): With certificates to prove it, Germaine Campbell is in the Guinness Book of Records. She didn't jump from an airplane; she didn't run a marathon. Her record took 50 years to achieve, starting in 1951 and a bet with husband James that they would have twins.
GERMAINE CAMPBELL, MOTHER OF TWINS: So he bet a buck with me and then the twins were born and he gave me two daughters, one each for each -- each twin.
BATTIS: Daughters Joyce and Joan. Nice, but not really ground breaking, is it?
(CROSSTALK)
BATTIS: No.
Well, leap ahead 20 years or so. Joyce, pregnant, sees her doctor for a check-up.
JOYCE ROY, TWIN AND MOTHER OF TWINS: When I went, he told me, he says, "You're having two." I said, "Holy (EXPLETIVE DELETED), I'm having two."
BATTIS: The twin had twins, Deanne (ph) and Carol. Then, Deanne grew up and had, yes, twins.
CAROL ROY, TWIN AND MOTHER OF TWINS: I said, "You had them, so, you know, I'm going to be free now. I'm not going to have them. There's no way that.."
J. ROY: I said, "You'll see. You might have one, too."
BATTIS: Intuition, it seems, is also handed down. Like her grandmother before, Deanne's hunch was right. Carol had twin girls, Kelly and Ashley (ph). Three generations, four sets of twins.
CAMPBELL: When these guys kept coming, they said, Geez, is it ever going to stop?
BATTIS: This, of course, isn't the first northern Ontario family to find fame. The Dionne quintuplets wowed the world decades ago. Once a rare event, multiple births are now common. More than 4,000 sets of twins are born in Canada annually. Birth of twins has increased 35 percent since 1974. The main reason, this specialist argues -- the boom in artificial fertilization.
DR. DAVID YOUNG, OBSTETRICIAN: When drugs are used to induce ovulation, there will be an increase in twins and multiple births.
BATTIS: Not the Campbells. They're just on a streak -- one that puts them in the record books, and makes them very busy.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
PHILLIPS: Thank you to Todd Battis of CTV News for that story.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
