We report 36 week gestation twins born following a traumatic delivery. Twin 2 had profuse haemorrhage where haemostasis was achieved with recombinant Factor VIIa (rFVIIa - NovoSeven;Novo Nordisk A/S, Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

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