A baby boy, who was born a few minutes after his twin brother at a hospital in Massachusetts, has become the official older twin. The circumstance of their twin birth order mess up might sound like an amusing riddle but this can actually be blamed on Daylight Savings Time (DST).
The first twin, Samuel, was born on Nov. 6 at 1:39 a.m. to parents Emily and Seth Peterson. Then 31 minutes later, baby Ronan arrived at technically around 2:10 a.m. But because the DST roll back officially kicked off by then, Ronan's birth time was logged at 1:10 a.m., thus making him the "older" twin, ABC News reports.
Nurses at the Cape Cod Hospital have not encountered any case like this before and expectedly, it became a big thing. Citing the remarkable and unusual story of the twin babies, the Petersons' photo was featured on the hospital's Facebook page along with the twin birth order anecdote.
Even Samuel and Ronan's parents cannot believe what happened to the twin birth order. Emily Peterson recalls that there had been a commotion in the delivery room when Ronan arrived. The nurses kept asking for the time even as there was a big clock on the wall.
A nurse who has worked for 40 years, Deborah Totten, said that they have to legally put the 1:39 a.m. (Samuel) and 1:10 a.m. (Ronan) on the twin boys' birth certificates, according to Inside Edition. But she hopes that the twin boys will come to grow up understanding how special their twin birth order came to be.
"I personally think it's kind of cool that one's 'older' and one's born first," the twin baby's father told ABC. He initially thought that the boys would be born around midnight and would have separate birth dates. The babies are now at home with their parents and older sister, Aubrey, who is 2-years-old.
