“It’s honestly such an insane experience. My whole life I wanted to be a mom, and so while it’s tiring and stressful, at the end of the day it just feels so rewarding.”
In 2021 there were 114,161 twin births and the twin birth rate was 31.2 per 1,000 live births, according to the CDC
The odds of the same family having two sets of fraternal twins is 1 in 12.
JACKSONVILLE, Fl. — When Nicolas del Rosal found out in 2022 that his wife, Megan Cosgrove del Rosal, was expecting multiple babies, the news took a minute to sink in.
The Jacksonville couple discovered they were expecting twins — again.
Mateo and Celeste were born in December 2021. Ezra and Melody were born in December 2022. All four babies were premature and the newborns remain hospitalized with a range of medical issues. For a time, the family was unsure either of them would survive.
The family refers to the first set of twins as the Alphas and the second set as the Bravos. Both Nicolas, 26, and Megan del Rosals, 23, are stock traders adjusting to raising four babies.
“My whole life I wanted to be a mom, and so while it’s tiring and stressful, at the end of the day it just feels so rewarding because I know I wouldn’t want it any other way,” Megan del Rosal said.
“I was not expecting to have four kids within a year of each other when I was wishing to be a mom. And yeah I definitely at times feel super defeated and just sit down and cry,” she said, “but one of the Alpha twins always comes over and it kinda just makes everything feel OK again, even for just a moment.”