Doctor stays busy delivering three sets of twins
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Standard-Examiner correspondent
OGDEN -- Dr. Darren Housel may have thought he was seeing double earlier this week when he delivered three sets of twins within 21 hours at Ogden Regional Medical Center.
During his 14-year career as an obstetrician-gynecologist, Housel has delivered approximately 2,500 babies, but never more than one set of twins a few times a year.
"It's been a wild and wacky week," Housel said. "This is really quite unusual."
Housel knew the babies' due dates were close together, but he didn't expect he would be running from one mother to the next so quickly. Besides delivering the twins, he also delivered two other babies within that time frame.
Sarah and David Phillips of Roy were the first couple to check in on Monday. Later that evening at 9:58, Housel delivered their identical male twins, Josh and Jake.
At 12:05 a.m. Tuesday, he raced over to deliver twin girls, Morgan and Kylee to Megan and Carl Eddy of Layton. That evening, at 6:05, Cierre and Scott Bartholomew of Tremonton welcomed twin boys, Jaxon and Ashton into the world. All six babies weighed between 4.9 pounds and 5.13 pounds.
"Wow. It's amazing he did that," Sarah Phillips said. "I even had to have a C-section because one of the babies had his feet in the wrong direction."
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