Double Trouble

(Fox News) - When doctors in Birmingham, England attempted to abort a 25-week old fetus in order to save the life of his twin — the baby had other plans. The Daily Mail reports Gabriel Jones had a severely enlarged heart and was much smaller and weaker than his brother. Doctors and the mother agreed to end his suffering — and ensure the other twin's safety.

But Gabriel's umbilical cord proved too strong to sever. And when doctors cut the placenta in half to isolate the baby — that turned out to be the thing that saved him — by evening out the distribution of nutrition to the womb.

Both babies were delivered by cesarean six weeks later — and both are now happy, healthy and home.