Brooke Mueller and Charlie Sheen Dish On Their Twins

April 23, 2009 by tiffanyb
Filed under: Celebrity Baby News

Having been born 7 weeks premature, Brooke Mueller and Charlie Sheen had quite the scare when their twin boys were born.

The Sheens tell Entertainment Tonight, that the twins, Max and Bob, are “doing great” now, but there were some scary times with them being born 7 weeks premature.

Brooke, says, “It was scary. I went to the NICU to see them and words can’t express how amazing and shocking to see two human beings that came out of me. But I was scared. Our babies had so many tubes on them, it was frightening. I didn’t have the easiest pregnancy. I had preeclampsia, gestational diabetes and cholestasis.”

Charlie adds that “she would have been in serious jeopardy had they stayed in longer.”

Charlie also goes on to set the record straight about the rumors that Max suffers from a heart problem. “They were 7 weeks early so things were still developing. Max has something called ejection fracture. It’s the volume at which the heart pumps and how much blood the heart can pump. There wasn’t anything that any other premature child, especially a twin, doesn’t normally go through. Things are gradually going toward normal.”

He also explains that the reason why Max had to stay in the hospital longer was not due to a heart problem, but was because of weight. That max just needed to gain a little more weight to be able to be released from the hospital.

Brooke says that the twins are “doing great” and that they are “completely Sheens.” She says, “Bob looks identical to Charlie. Everybody at the NICU called him Charlie. And Max looks like (Charlie’s dad) Martin.”

Max and Bob were the first children for Brooke, while Charlie has three daughters from previous relationships: Cassandra, 24, Sam, 5, and Lola, 3.