Dennis Quaid: the twins are “really healthy and happy kids”

Dennis Quaid has said his twin babies Zoe and Boone are “doing great” after recovering from a near-fatal drug mix-up shortly last year.

The babies were just ten days old when they were accidentally given 1000 times the recommended dose of blood-thinner Heparin at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The error was discovered when the babies began to “bleed out” and after an initial touch-and-go period, the little boy and girl have now fully recovered.

Dennis told People magazine recently: “Everyone is doing great. The kids are fantastic and really healthy and happy kids.”

Now he and wife Kimberley are just having the same problems as all other new parents: “I’ve just been sleep-deprived… Last night, was the first night they slept all the way through the night, from 7:00pm - 5:30am.”

But things are easier for him than it was when he first became a dad to son Jack Henry with ex-wife Meg Ryan in 1992: “It’s easier in the sense that … when the first one comes along you worry about everything. The second ones come along, ‘Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah that’s fine, seen that, done that’… You’re a little more relaxed about it. But with two, you need another arm.”

He added that there is a different issue with having opposite-sex twins: “One’s wearing blue, the other one’s wearing pink. But you’d still be surprised [with] people, because they don’t want to make a mistake, they go.’Oh, that’s the… a girl, isn’t it?’”