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 KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A mom planned to have her twin baby boys in the Kansas City area, near family. When she gave birth, she ended up with two little miracles, but not on the same day. 
  
 "I thought I was going to have both and lose both of them," said Elene Cowan. 
  
 At 24 weeks and one day, Elene delivered Carl. He weighed just one pound, four ounces and was small enough for mom to slide her wedding ring up his arm. 
  
 Doctors then stitched up Elene's cervix to allow David more time to grow. 
  
 "I thought for sure Carl was going to die at 24, so any hope to have him stay in longer was wonderful," she said. 
  
 Doctors ordered bed-rest, and 39 days later, David was ready to follow his brother. 
  
 "When he came out he was huge to me. Although he was only 2.9 pounds, but he was huge," Elene said. 
  
 She carried David for nearly 30 weeks. For her, there was a sense of accomplishment and wonder. 
  
 "Miracles can happen. Even though they're that small, they were perfectly formed," she said. 
  
 The boys stayed in the neonatal intensive care unit at Research Medical Center for more than 100 days before heading home with their mother. As soon as the boys are healthy enough, Elene hopes to move back to Saudi Arabia to be reunited with her husband, who happens to be a doctor there. 
  
 According the Guinness Book of World Records, 87 days is the longest twins were born separately. ||||| Kansas City, Mo. -- (The Today Show) Healthy and thriving at more than 9 pounds each, they smile and wiggle, preemie twin boys whose mother feared the worst when she went into labor about four months early. But mom Elene Cowan calls their survival a miracle after her sons were born 39 days apart, another unusual instance of tiny twins arriving on different days. 
  
 "I didn't think miracles happen but I know they did," said Cowan, 30, an emergency room nurse who slipped her engagement ring around her firstborn son's wrist when he was about a week old. "When your ring can fit around your son's arm and now you're holding him and feeding him and playing with him on the floor, that can only be a miracle." 
  
 Cowan, who delivered Carl at 24 weeks on Jan. 20, and David Jr. at nearly 30 weeks on March 28, credits her doctor with making the right decision to delay the second delivery for as long as possible to improve David's chances despite the risk of infection or other complications. 
  
 The five weeks between vaginal deliveries at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri, were agonizing for Cowan, who was torn between tending to Carl in the neonatal intensive care unit and resting to protect her fragile pregnancy. 
  
 "It was awful being pregnant and going to the NICU and being worried about one baby inside of you and worried about one baby outside of you," Cowan said. 
  
 Her scary ordeal began in January, when she and her husband, David, flew home to Missouri from Saudi Arabia, where he works as an emergency room doctor. Within hours, she didn't feel right and wondered if she was dehydrated. 
  
 But doctors found that Carl's amniotic sac was entering the birth canal, Cowan's cervix was starting to dilate and she was having contractions. With medication and other treatments, her labor was stalled for about a week, when she gave birth to Carl, tiny at 1.4 pounds. 
  
 "I just thought there's no way he's going to survive," Cowan said. But in the silence of the operating room, she knew he was alive. "He had two little cries. That made me really happy." 
  
 Her obstetrician, Dr. Howard Schwartz, said in an interview that he believed that Cowan suffered from an incompetent cervix, a condition where weak cervical tissue can cause premature birth. He placed a stitch to hold her cervix closed, and ordered antibiotics and medications to stall labor. 
  
 "The opportunity to buy time was the reason for trying to do the procedure to separate their births," he said, noting that there is about a 50 percent chance of survival for babies born at 24 weeks. 
  
 Cowan's labor became unstoppable again in late March, when David was born, weighing more than twice that of brother, at 2.9 pounds. 
  
 "I thought, 'Oh my gosh. He is the biggest baby ever,'" she said, noting that her husband watched the birth from Saudi Arabia through a video call. 
  
 The boys stayed in the neonatal intensive care unit for weeks, finally going home in late May, about a week after their due date of May 11. Doctors told Cowan the fraternal twins, will be "perfectly healthy normal little boys," though Carl remains on oxygen. 
  
 Schwartz said he has treated at least six women carrying multiple fetuses with an incompetent cervix the same way as Cowan over the last 15 years. It is not commonly done, he said, because doctors are taught to deliver multiples at the same time. The delayed approach, he said, is "outside the normal mindset." 
  
 But, Schwartz said, with the right conditions and willing parents, it can work. "Thirty-nine days apart with both babies surviving is unusual, and yes, beats the odds," Schwartz said. 
  
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Solution:
It sounds like a riddle: How can two boys be both brothers and twins but not share a birthday, or even a birth month? A Kansas City mother has a rather miraculous answer to that question. Elene Cowan gave birth to her fraternal twin boys nearly six weeks apart, and after 100 days in the neonatal intensive care unit, the boys, now 4 and 6 months old, are home, weighing in at more than 9 pounds a piece, and expected to do fine. Cowan learned her amniotic sac was bulging in the birth canal at 24 weeks; with doctors unable to halt her labor, she delivered son Carl on Jan. 20; he weighed one pound four ounces—so tiny his mother could slide her engagement ring up his arm. Cowan's doctor tells KOBI he believes an incompetent cervix may have been behind the premature birth; he literally stitched her cervix shut and used medication and a special balloon to keep Carl's brother, David, inside in the hopes of improving his own chance of survival. Cowan spent the next six weeks on bed rest, moving only to visit Carl. When David came along 39 days later, on Feb. 28, he weighed less than three pounds—and Cowan thought he looked huge by comparison. She tells ABC News they plan to celebrate the birthdays separately in "remembrance of what they went through." While it is incredibly rare for twins to be born so far apart, FOX4KC reports the Guinness Book of World Records lists the longest stretch between the birth of one set of twins at 87 days, or almost three months. (The news of Cowan's twins follows that of a woman in Boston who recently gave birth to twins 24 days apart.)