Woman gets pregnant — while pregnant

vivfox · #1 09-24-2009, 10:20 PM

Arkansas woman conceives two babies weeks apart, according to reports

updated 3:06 p.m. ET, Thurs., Sept . 24, 2009

Arkansas couple Todd and Julia Grovenburg found out that they were having a baby and then discovered they were having two bundles of joy — but the babies aren't twins. An ultrasound revealed that a male fetus was conceived a full two-and-a-half weeks after the woman became pregnant with a baby girl, according to reports from local media. The Grovenburgs' obstetrician confirmed the case to Arkansas television station KFSM-TV.

The pregnancy is believed to be a case of a rare condition known as superfetation, or conceiving while pregnant.

The pregnancy may sound weird, but it is possible, according to NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman.

"Here's how it happens — egg and sperm, implant. Of course, that's your first pregnancy. But if you ovulate more than one time a month — and women do — and a sperm happens to meet that egg and they, too, implant, guess what, you get a second fetus," Snyderman said during MSNBC's “Dr. Nancy” Thursday. "You just have to hope it happens within that early window."

Due dates for the babies are the end of 2009 and early 2010, reports say.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33006136...ing/?GT1=43001

vivfox · #2 09-24-2009, 10:21 PM

Gives new meaning to the phrase, "only in Arkansas."

Ghost_Tracker · #3 09-25-2009, 02:10 AM

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Due dates for the babies are the end of 2009 and early 2010, reports say.

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**mylittledemon** · #4 09-25-2009, 04:31 AM

thats pretty frickin' weird

Musicman408 · #5 09-25-2009, 08:55 AM

That's quite interesting. Didn't really realize this could happen!!

LikeAWillow · #6 09-25-2009, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Ghost_Tracker

WAAAIIIIIT a minute . . . .

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Haha, agreed. I'm sure they're just reporting what the due date for the second baby would be if it were a single pregnancy, I don't think this woman intends to go into quite a nifty labor where only the baby who is due first is delivered and the second just bides his/her time for another two and a half weeks.

chriskisn · #7 09-25-2009, 10:36 AM

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Haha, agreed. I'm sure they're just reporting what the due date for the second baby would be if it were a single pregnancy, I don't think this woman intends to go into quite a nifty labor where only the baby who is due first is delivered and the second just bides his/her time for another two and a half weeks.

Although if there was a significant time difference between the babies being conceived they would have to deliver one and not the other. In this case a couple of weeks won't make that much difference.

Ghost_Tracker · #8 09-25-2009, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by LikeAWillow

Haha, agreed. I'm sure they're just reporting what the due date for the second baby would be if it were a single pregnancy, I don't think this woman intends to go into quite a nifty labor where only the baby who is due first is delivered and the second just bides his/her time for another two and a half weeks.

Yeah, that makes a lot more sense.