article_snippet: Lindalva Pinheiro da Silva, the boys' mother, held back tears as she thanked the doctors and staff for Lindalva Pinheiro da Silva, the boys' mother work during she pregnancy while at the party on Thursday at Tufts Medical Center .
article_snippet: Lindalva Pinheiro da Silva, the boys' motherthe boys' , went into labor 16 weeks early last February and had a delayed interval delivery, which is rare.
article_snippet: I panicked,' Pinheiro da Silva's told ABC. '
article_snippet: Pinheiro da Silva's has spoken out about the technique doctors resorted to in the hope they could save one twin when the first was born at only 24 weeks after she went into premature labor in February .
article_snippet: When potassium sulfate injections failed to stop Pinheiro da Silva's labor, doctors decided to go forward with a rare technique in which one baby is kept in his mother's womb after one baby twin is born. '
article_snippet: Doctors stopped Pinheiro da Silva's labor and left the delivered child's umbilical cord and placenta inside his mother's womb.
article_snippet: Pinheiro da Silva's was given antibiotics to combat infection, which can be common .
article_snippet: However, unlike many mothers, Pinheiro da Silva's Pinheiro da Silva's was .
highlights_snippet: Mother, Lindalva Pinheiro da Silva, was 24 weeks pregnant with the twins when Mother went into labor .
  