Newborn twins in North Carolina weigh in at 23 pounds

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — They aren’t America’s heaviest newborn twins on record but they certainly tip the scales: Sean William Maynard and Abigail Rose Maynard weighed in at a combined 23 pounds and 1 ounce at birth last week, a North Carolina hospital announced.

Freda Springs, spokeswoman for Forsyth Medical Center, said the twins were delivered two minutes apart by Caesarean section on Tuesday at the center’s Sara Lee Center for Women’s Health in Winston-Salem.

The boy weighed 10 pounds, 14 ounces; the girl weighed 12 pounds, 3 ounces. Springs said both babies are in excellent condition after their birth to parents Joey and Erin Maynard of Winston-Salem.

The combined weight of the twins is about four pounds shy of the combined weight of twins born in Arkansas in 1927, the hospital said.