A woman in the United Kingdom very rarely conceived again after three weeks of pregnancy, giving birth to a pair of healthy dragon and phoenix babies in September last year. The picture is a diagram, not related to this article.
A woman in the United Kingdom who had been suffering from infertility was surprised to see a very rare “ectopic re-pregnancy” during her pregnancy, when she became pregnant again after three weeks of pregnancy. The mother gave birth to a pair of healthy twins in September last year.
Rebecca Roberts, 39, and her husband, Rhys Weaver, 43, have a 15-year-old daughter. After years of unsuccessful attempts to have another child, the couple was treated with fertility drugs and last year Roberts was delighted to conceive. At her first ultrasound, doctors said she was pregnant with a single child, but three weeks later at another delivery, a second fetus turned up in her uterus.
Roberts recalled that when she went back to the hospital three weeks into her pregnancy, she was shocked to find two children in her belly, “I didn’t know it was possible to conceive during pregnancy.
David Walker, an obstetrician and gynecologist at the Royal United Hospital in Bath, said in an interview with Good Morning America that he had never seen this before in his 30 years of practice, “We were concerned because the second fetus was much smaller, but regular scans revealed that the smaller one had a growth rate The doctor said he had never seen this before in his 30 years of practice, “We were worried because the second fetus was so much smaller, but regular scans revealed that the smaller one was always three weeks behind in growth rate and deduced that this was an unusually rare ‘superfetation’ in medical history.”
At one point, doctors thought the second fetus might not survive due to prematurity, but fortunately both fetuses have since had high growth rates. Last September, due to problems with the umbilical cord of the second fetus, Roberts gave birth to a boy and a girl twins, named Noah (Noah) for the brother and Rosalie (Rosalie) for the sister, by early caesarean section at 33 weeks of pregnancy.
Due to the late formation of Rosalie’s embryo, the pair of twins were born with a huge difference in weight, with Noah weighing 2.1 kg and Rosalie only 1.1 kg. Despite the obvious difference in size between the two babies, there is still a strong bond between them.
Noah was hospitalized for 24 days after his birth, and Rosalie stayed for 95 days until she was finally allowed to go home last Christmas Eve. Roberts said, “It was really absolutely beautiful to see two newborn babies.” Weaver said, “It was the best feeling of my life.”
Today, the twins are more than 6 months old. The couple also opened an Instagram account for the rare twin siblings, which continues to document the siblings’ growth and has attracted thousands of people to follow and watch.
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