A woman got pregnant while already being pregnant...

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A woman got pregnant while already being pregnant...

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Rebecca Roberts and her partner struggled with infertility for more than a year, so when they got a positive result with an at-home pregnancy test, they were overjoyed. But the news did not feel real until the first ultrasound appointment, when the couple saw their baby on a sonogram screen and listened to the calming cadence of a steady heartbeat. On Roberts's medical chart, her obstetrician wrote: singleton.
"I remember walking away from the very first scan so happy," said Roberts, 39, who lives in Wiltshire, England.


But her excitement abruptly shifted to shock five weeks later at the 12-week ultrasound appointment, when the sonographer spotted something astonishing: It appeared as though Roberts was suddenly carrying two babies - one of which was considerably less-developed than the other. The room fell silent. "I thought something awful had happened," Roberts said. "The sonographer looked at me and was like, 'Do you know you're expecting twins?' " But this was not a typical set of twins, Roberts learned. Her pregnancy was diagnosed as superfetation, a rare condition in which a woman who is already pregnant conceives another baby.

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A woman got pregnant while already being pregnant...

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Rebecca Roberts and her partner struggled with infertility for more than a year, so when they got a positive result with an at-home pregnancy test, they were overjoyed. But the news did not feel real until the first ultrasound appointment, when the couple saw their baby on a sonogram screen and listened to the calming cadence of a steady heartbeat. On Roberts's medical chart, her obstetrician wrote: singleton.
"I remember walking away from the very first scan so happy," said Roberts, 39, who lives in Wiltshire, England.


But her excitement abruptly shifted to shock five weeks later at the 12-week ultrasound appointment, when the sonographer spotted something astonishing: It appeared as though Roberts was suddenly carrying two babies - one of which was considerably less-developed than the other. The room fell silent. "I thought something awful had happened," Roberts said. "The sonographer looked at me and was like, 'Do you know you're expecting twins?' " But this was not a typical set of twins, Roberts learned. Her pregnancy was diagnosed as superfetation, a rare condition in which a woman who is already pregnant conceives another baby.

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Cool story. Given the disparity in the babies' sizes, the little girl can wear big brother's onesies, since they grow so fast in those first few months.