Brooklyn mom expecting her third set of twins says, 'God blessed me!'
BY Edgar Sandoval
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Originally Published:Wednesday, March 10th 2010, 11:16 PM
Updated: Thursday, March 11th 2010, 12:46 PM
Gezime Amer with her 12-year-old twin boys Abdulah (top left) and Rahman (top right) and 10-year-old twin girls Zenebe (bottom left) and Kerima (bottom right) at their hom in Brooklyn.
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Gezime Amer with her 12-year-old twin boys Abdulah (top left) and Rahman (top right) and 10-year-old twin girls Zenebe (bottom left) and Kerima (bottom right) at their hom in Brooklyn.
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Her luck comes in pairs. Brooklyn mom Gezime Amer felt blessed when she gave birth to twin boys 12 years ago.
Two years later, she gave birth to twin girls.
Now she is six months pregnant with, you guessed it, twins!
"God blessed me with the genes to have twins," said the elated Sheepshead Bay mom. "They came to me all natural, too."
Amer's gynecologist, Ayman Shahine, said he's never come across a mom so genetically prone to twins - identical or fraternal - in his 20 years of practice.
"Her genes are like that," Shahine said of Amer's twins, who are all fraternal.
"When she had her first twins, she was scared. Then she had two girls and she could not believe it. Now, she's an expert."
Only 15 out of 26,000 members of the National Organization of Mothers of Twins have reported giving birth to several sets of twins.
"It is rare, but multiple births do happen," said Pam Krell, executive vice president of the group. "An extra baby means extra joy."
Amer, 37, couldn't agree more - even though she admits the extra babies also mean extra work and extra expense.
McDonald's is reserved for special occasions. Her husband, Adel, works six days a week as a $32,000-a-year hardware store manager.
"We teach them that we may not have a lot, but we have each other," his wife said. "Blood is thicker than water."
On a recent afternoon, the home bustled with activity.
Abdulah and Rahman, 12, played trombones while sisters Kerima and Zenebe, 10, fed their fighting twin pit bulls, Hershey and Blue.
Mom took the hubbub in stride, hoping to keep her stress level down for the sake of the two unborn boys.
"I don't want them to come early, like my first ones," she said. "I'm just worried I won't have everything they need before they are born."
She said that the first time she found out she was carrying twins, she didn't believe it. "I cried. I was hysterical," she said.
Hoping for a girl the next time, the couple got their wish - and then some.
"The doctor said 'You are having more twins, girls this time,'" Gezime Amer said. "I said, 'Are you sure?' No one in my family has twins."
As her late 30s approached, Gezime Amer decided to have one more child before she turned 40. Once again, she was stunned to learn the pregnancy was another twofer.
"I did not even know I had the twin gene," she said.
Her older kids said they can't wait for the new arrivals and can school them in the ways of twindom.
"We are very close. We go everywhere but the bathroom [together]," Rahman said of him and his brother.
"When you are [a] twin, you know someone always has your back," said Kerima. "You know you'll never be alone."
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