MEN - Twins weigh in at exactly 4lb 14.5oz

YOUNG mum Chloe Minchion was expecting her twins to be similar - but she didn't think they would weigh exactly the same.When the 17-year-old gave birth to Jacobe and Joshuah after a short labour, hospital staff saw nothing out of the ordinary.But all that changed when both babies tipped the scales at exactly the same weight of 4lb 14.5oz.Chloe explained: "The midwife couldn't believe it and said she didn't think it was right. "She called for someone else and they weighed them again on the electric scales - and it was right."She said news of the weigh-in spread rapidly around St Mary's in Manchester. "When I got back to the ward, everyone knew and they were all asking me about it," she said.Although the twins are not identical, Chloe says they have much in common."It's amazing," she said, "and it's not just the weight. When one sneezes, the other one does and when one crosses his legs, the other one does. It's amazing."They have mittens to stop them from scratching their faces and when one twin loses them, so does the other."They even went for a hearing test and both had the same ear blocked."The pair were born at 12.38am and 12.58am after a labour of about two-and-a-half hours. Now Chloe, from Longsight, thinks she could make the most of the similarities."They even feed at the same time," she said. "That should be good for me, because they wake up together and I can feed them both and go back to sleep."Chloe said she's only heard of one other pair of twins born with identical weights."Somebody told us the Kray twins were born weighing the same," she added. "But I hope they don't grow up like them. I'm sure they'll be good lads"A spokesman for the Multiple Births Foundation said it was `rare' to find twins with exactly the same birthweight.She said: "We see quite a few within a few ounces of each other but to get them exactly the same is rare, but it does happen ocasionally."