{"id":200866,"date":"2019-04-23T12:32:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T17:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=200866"},"modified":"2019-04-23T15:14:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T20:14:35","slug":"ouch-ultrasound-twin-punching-womb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ouch-ultrasound-twin-punching-womb\/","title":{"rendered":"Ouch! Ultrasound catches twin girls punching each other in the womb"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Twin sisters in the womb, who were born healthy this year, were already doing before birth what siblings always seem to do once out of the womb: fight with each other.<\/p>\n

“Cherry” and “Strawberry,” as they are nicknamed by their parents, were born in Yinchuan, China, four months after their father took this video at their ultrasound appointment, in which the girls appear to punch each other in the womb. They weighed 4.3 pounds and 3.57 pounds. Experts say that while the event caught on video may seem comical in nature, there is a danger when twins are monoamniotic — meaning they share the same space. “It can be dangerous because it is like the twins are growing in the same ‘room’ when normally twins develop in two ‘rooms’,” the director of the prenatal center told the UK Mirror<\/a>. “It happens once in every 30 million cases.”<\/p>\n