Woman Falls Pregnant When She Was Already Expecting In Rare Medical Phenomenon

Once you’ve conceived, it’s pretty much a given that you can’t get even more pregnant, right?

Actually, if you’re Kate Hill of Brisbane, Queensland, then that’s not entirely true. This Australian mother woman didn’t just get pregnant once, she became pregnant twice within the same pregnancy!

Hill and her husband, Peter, were struggling to conceive after a 2006 diagnosis of polycystic ovarian syndrome, a hormonal condition that left her unable to ovulate. She underwent hormone treatment and fell pregnant.

Then, in a medical phenomenon so rare there are only 10 documented cases, she fell pregnant again 10 days later in the same pregnancy. The conception is called superfetation, which essentially means she fell pregnant while already pregnant.

“What makes this case even more rare, is that my husband and I only had intercourse one time,” she said in an interview that may have contained a little too much information. “His sperm stayed alive for 10 days to fertilise the second egg released.”

Even more incredible is that the pregnancy began with twins and then went on to become triplets at that 10-day mark. Unfortunately, the couple lost one of the babies early on in the pregnancy.

Kate and Peter were later given two due dates, December 20 and December 30, 2015. They ended up having the same birthday, however, due to a cesarean. Two days of labor in a 10-day period is a little excessive for one Mom to handle.

Despite technically being twins, they measured very differently in size, weight, and gestational development. The healthy girls are about to celebrate their first birthdays.

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