Twins Early For Prime Rib Feast

A prime rib dinner on Christmas Eve was interrupted by the birth of twins who wound up being born on different days.

Just as her family was sitting down to dinner Wednesday night, Sonya Phillips felt her water break.

The twins had been due at the end of January but made it clear they weren’t going to wait that long.

At 11:53 p.m., well after Phillips, 20, and her boyfriend Stephen London, also 20, had driven to Providence General Medical Center in Everett, out came Stephen, weighing 5 pounds, 8 ounces.

At 12:45 a.m. Thursday, MacKenzie, also weighing 5 pounds, 8 ounces, was born.

The 52 minutes between the two arrivals was not uncommon, said Lauri Dettrich, a nurse in the delivery room.

“It just depends on what position the second baby is in, the size, lots of different factors,” Dettrich said. “It happens when it happens.”

And the prime rib dinner? It was put aside and then savored on Christmas night.