Arkansas , September 25: In a rare medical development an Arkansas couple Todd and Julia Grovenburg’s discovered that the already pregnant Julia was pregnant with another baby during a routine Ultrasound at the doctor’s clinic. Doctors discovered another, smaller baby boy who may have been conceived about two-and-a-half weeks after Jillian, who is the older baby.
Any woman can be pregnant with two babies, generally called twins. The Grovenburg babies may be a rare case of superfetation, or conceiving while pregnant, doctors say.
But in this case, they are not twins but 2 different babies, which probably will be born in different years too. The older baby will be born towards the end of this year and the younger baby will be born, early the next year.
When the woman was already pregnant then she conceived again after almost 18-20 days. Since, she conceived the second child so late, so the possibility of them being twins is completely ruled out. To the general public this sounds impossible but according to the medical experts, it’s technically possible but extremely rare.
“It does really sound like this is a true case of different conception times for these children,” Dr. Karen Boyle of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center continued, adding that she could only find “about 10 reported cases” of superfetation.
–Agencies–