Article: New Jersey woman has third set of twins. (Iona Lightfoot of Brighton, New Jersey)

Even before the nurse told her, Iona Lightfoot knew.

"I had a deep intuition," she says. Not to mention considerable prior experience.

This 35-year-old pregnant mother already had two sets of twins. Still, when the nurse told her that, in four months, she was going to have another set, she thought -- actually hoped and prayed -- the nurse was just joking.

But she wasn't.

"It was astonishing. I just couldn't believe it," says the New Jersey mother of seven, who delivered her third set of twins in early October.

Although she has never taken fertility drugs, she and her husband Pete had been told after the birth of her second ...

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