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Mother Delivers Babies Minutes Apart but They are Not Twins!

by Gandhi on  October 01, 2007 at 4:02 PM General Health News
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Mother Delivers Babies Minutes Apart but They are Not Twins!
Although Ame and Lia Herrity were born just minutes apart to their mother, the two girl babies are not twins.


In fact, thought they share the same birthday, the little girls were conceived an entire three weeks apart thanks to a million-to-one medical rarity called superfetation, where the body carries on releasing more eggs for fertilisation after a pregnancy has already occurred.

Mum Amelia Spence admits that she and partner George Herrity were as stunned as the doctors when they first found out that she was carrying two children, but they were not twins.

"It is hard to get our heads around the fact that I was pregnant with two babies at the same time and they aren’t twins," the Daily Mail quoted her as saying.

"We looked at the screen and the doctor pointed out that one foetus still looked like a blob, whereas the other had four visible limbs. It was such a marked difference.

"It was really strange to see. The doctor said that he had never seen it before, but had only read about it in textbooks.

"One foetus was 12 weeks old, whilst they said the other was three weeks behind, at nine weeks old. I had become pregnant twice on two separate occasions.

"The doctors couldn’t believe it, either. They told us there was a million-to-one chance of it happening.

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02/28/2010

39 years ago I gave birth to a boy and then to a "surprise" girl. My doctor was basically shocked as he had never heard 2 heart beats and my total wgt gain was only 23 lbs. He estimated that they were up to 4 wks apart in conception! I would love to be in touch with someone else who experienced this "wonder" Mystery!!!!!!

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09/04/2008

I had this type of twins in 1962. Two girls, conceived 3 wks apart and weighing 6lbs 2 0z and 7lbs 10 Ozs at birth. The larger one peeled from head to toe and the smaller was at full gestation. They developed normally and have families of their own now. Enjoy your babies, it goes by fast!

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02/28/2010

Would love to touch bases with you! Could you please email me? Thank you

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