Triple Double! / Doctor delivers three sets of twins within 21 hours
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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."
Phillips was actually due to deliver on Oct. 24. Eddy was due Oct. 27, and Bartholomew was due Oct. 29. However, Housel said it isn't unusual for twins to be born a little early.
"Dr. Housel said the babies were actually on time for twins," Eddy said.
Housel, who practices medicine at the Circle of Life Women's Center in South Ogden, said all three deliveries went very well and without complications.
"None of them are in the NICU (Newborn Intensive Care Unit), and all of them are with their mothers," he said.
"It's just been very exciting around here. It always seems to come in waves, and this has been a really big wave. In fact, I'm on my way to deliver another baby right now, so we'll just keep riding out the wave."
Ogden Regional Medical Center public relations director Craig Bielik said none of the birth place nurses recall ever having the same doctor deliver multiple sets of twins in the same day.
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