An identical twin who died at just 25 days old is being remembered across the globe.
Jess and Ashley Maddock, both 42, from Wallasey, had to say goodbye to their baby girl Cora as she died in their arms just weeks after being born at Liverpool Women's Hospital. Cora weighed just 1lb 9oz when she was born via emergency C-section on 21 December 2019, while her identical twin sister Rose weighed 3lbs 4oz.
The difference in the sisters' size was due to a condition called Selective Intrauterine Growth Restriction (sIUGR) which can occur in some identical twin pregnancies, meaning the twins share unequal portions of the same placenta. When twins have sIUGR one identical twin is normal size, while the other is significantly smaller.
