After struggling with infertility for years, 39-year-old Rebecca Roberts and her partner were thrilled, though a little shocked, when an at-home pregnancy test came back positive.
During her first sonogram appointment, the obstetrician noted she was carrying a single baby and everything looked normal. Then a second surprise came.
When Roberts, who lives in Wiltshire, England, returned five weeks later for her 12-week ultrasound, she received some shocking news. She told the Washington Post, “The sonographer looked at me and was like, ‘do you know you’re expecting twins?’”
However, she wasn’t carrying your quintessential set of twins. Roberts was diagnosed with a rare condition known as superfetation, where a woman who is already pregnant conceives a second baby.
The condition is so rare, her obstetrician, David Walker, ran a multitude of scans before he could confirm it, saying he’d never seen it in his 25 years as a doctor.
Read more at The Hill.
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Is this appropriate for this website?
The gemara talks about this quite often and it seams to have a been a common and concerning issue. It was somthong that was necessary to be actively avoided.
I had a cousin like this and indeed the second twin was born 2 months later.
They have to make2 Shakes zakors