Woman Falls Pregnant While Already Expecting Twins - So Is Now Having Triplets

An expectant mother has explained how she managed to get pregnant with a baby while already expecting twins.

The woman, from the US, shared her incredible story on video sharing platform TikTok, after one user questioned how this is possible.

Posting under the handle Blonde Bunny, the first-time mum explained doctors told her she was due triplets, after a third baby was conceived around ten days after the twins.

You can see her explain here.

The rare phenomenon is called superfetation, which occurs when a woman ovulates twice in a month.

She is now expecting to welcome triplets at some point next year.

Speaking to her 229,500 followers, the mum-to-be explained: "Normally your body is supposed to switch up your hormones and stop you from ovulating again once you're already pregnant. In my circumstance it did not.

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"About 10 per cent of women can ovulate twice a month. Only I think 0.3 per cent get pregnant a second time."

She then went on to explain that while the twins and her third baby do have different due dates, they were fertilised close enough that they can all be born on the same day.

"So with superfetation the eggs came at different dates, and so they have different gestational ages," she continued.

"Ours are only a few weeks apart but sometimes they can be months apart, and those people actually have to have different due dates."

While it was initially thought the third baby could actually be a malnourished triplet, doctors examining the pregnancy quickly confirmed it was a second pregnancy.

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"The first two babies are ten and 11 days older than our third baby, so that's how we knew straight away it was a second pregnancy," the woman said.

"To confirm it was superfetation and not just twin absorption or a malnourished baby the doctors are doing ultrasounds every two weeks.

"And sure enough it's been hitting every single milestone, growing at a healthy rate, just ten to 11 days behind the first two babies we have."

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Now gearing up for a late April or May due date, the woman in question has said she won't be planning on expanding her brood any further after she welcomes the triplets via a natural birth.

"We hit the jackpot it's our first pregnancy," she said. "And we've got three coming at once. So probably going to be my last as well."

Topics: Life News, Life, Babies, Pregnant, Mother, TikTok

Kimberley Bond

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