{"id":243558,"date":"2021-04-20T13:30:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T18:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=243558"},"modified":"2021-04-19T20:59:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T01:59:53","slug":"miracles-happen-conceives-pregnant-rare-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/miracles-happen-conceives-pregnant-rare-twins\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Miracles can happen’: Woman conceives while already pregnant, gives birth to rare twins"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman in the United Kingdom gave birth to a rare set of twins, conceived weeks apart, in a heartwarming story that has captivated the world.<\/p>\n

Rebecca Roberts and her partner, Rhys Weaver, told Good Morning America<\/a> they had been trying to get pregnant for years with no success. After going on fertility medication, the couple was thrilled to learn they were finally going to have their much-longed for baby. At their first ultrasound, they saw their baby and heard the heartbeat, and were relieved to know everything was well. \u201cI remember walking away from the very first scan so happy,\u201d she told the Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the thrills kept coming when Roberts saw the doctor for her 12-week ultrasound. “It was really, really shocking to be told there were two babies instead of one,” Roberts said in her interview with Good Morning America. “Then they told me there was a three-week size difference between the two babies that the doctors couldn\u2019t understand.”<\/p>\n

According to Roberts’ OB\/GYN, Dr. David Walker, they originally struggled to figure out what caused the size difference before diagnosing her with superfetation. This rare condition occurs when an already-pregnant<\/em> woman conceives another baby. Walker said there are very few cases of it occurring in medical literature, and they had to take time to perform multiple ultrasounds to be sure of what had happened.<\/p>\n

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“We were concerned because the second twin was much smaller,” he told the Washington Post. “It was only by regularly scanning and seeing that the rate of growth was consistently three weeks behind that we realized it was superfetation.”<\/p>\n

A 2008 report<\/a> published in the European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology found fewer than 10 cases of superfetation having taken place in the entire world.<\/p>\n