A Texas woman who was already pregnant conceived another baby two weeks later in a one-in-a-billion medical anomaly.
Taylor Henderson, 28, a stay-at-home mom from Texas, experienced superfetation, meaning she had gotten pregnant twice within two weeks.
The first embryo was conceived 14 days before the other one, in an event so rare the Cleveland Clinic says, your chance of being affected by superfetation is ‘close to zero’. There are only about 10 confirmed cases in the world.
The shock came eight weeks into her pregnancy during a scan which revealed that there were in fact two babies, both completely different sizes.
The nurse technician suddenly noticed a ‘tiny, little black area with a tiny little baby inside,’ which was later referred to as Twin B.
The growing babies had different heart rates which were consistent with their ages. Twin A, she explained, was eight weeks old, while Twin B, was six weeks old.
Mrs Henderson already had a four-month-old daughter named Sunni and said she and her husband Clayton ‘definitely weren’t trying for another’.
WHAT IS SUPERFETATION? THE RARE CONDITION THAT CAUSES A PREGNANT WOMAN TO CONCEIVE TWICE
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