Romanian woman gives birth to twin boys

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↑ Tefila

Mon, Feb 14 2005, 10:19 pm

Thanks

613

Thu, Feb 17 2005, 4:16 pm

That story is too weird. were they conceived two months apart- or at the same time? does that mean that if she had a fetus in one uterus, she could conceive in the other uterus when she was let's say 8 months preg. in the first?!?
oh....I think I'm chapping now Idea

, since she's preg. in the first she won't be ovulating anymore in the second, right? so they must be conceived the same time (or fertilized, at most, a week apart).

hila

Sun, Feb 12 2006, 6:31 am

See the BBC's explanation. They were twins but one was born 2 months prematurely.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4249203.stm

I am not sure if this would be possible in a woman with only one uterus.

If you have fraternal twins with 2 placentas could one be born by csection 2 months before the second ?

I would think the hormones in the body would be way out of sync.

Hila

Chani

Sun, Feb 12 2006, 8:08 am

I remember reading in a book about twins when I was pregnant with mine that it has happened a few times that a mother has given birth to one early and the other a few weeks later. But my impression from the books was that it required heavy duty drugs to stop the contractions after the first birth... Done to avoid prematurity problems.

Chanie

Mon, Feb 13 2006, 10:21 am

My mother had a classmate that had a twin in the older class. They were born a month a part and the deadline was in between. It was a boy and girl in her case and one was premature. The doctors were able to stop the labor. (and this is close to 60 years ago)

update: I'm on the phone with my mother now, and she mentioned that their names (Heshy and Mina), they were actually religious jews (unusual cause my mother went to a public school)

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amother

Mon, Feb 13 2006, 11:46 am

I have a friend with 2 uteri and 4 kidneys, but only one of each is functional. the theory is that the zygote started to separate into 2 --which would have resulted in identical twins--but separated only partway. better this than ending up as conjoined twins, which is also the result of incomplete separation. sometimes people have abdominal surgery for something else and are found to have little mummified fetuses inside their abdominal cavity--the phantom twin that didn't make it but was enveloped by the other. this happens sometimes: a woman is diagnosed as carrying twins and then one of them disappears.

Itta

Mon, Feb 13 2006, 11:52 am

amother: that is totally freaky!!!

chen

Mon, Feb 13 2006, 1:38 pm

rydys wrote:

It is also possible that one developed a little more quickly than the other as dating is based on measurements.

exactly. often one twin is significantly bigger than the other despite being conceived at the same time. if they are fraternals there is really no reason for them to be the same size in any case. there is even a very dangerous (for the baby) condition called twin-twin transfusion in which one fetus gets most of the nutrients and deprives the other one, which can lead to the death of the starved twin. relax, it is quite a rare condition.

U/S measurements are only an approximation and should be taken with a grain of salt.

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