A British woman gave birth to two babies at the same time – which were conceived three weeks apart, according to new reports.
Rebecca Roberts, 39, was already pregnant with her son, Noah, when she conceived her daughter, Rosalie, the Independent reported.
“We feel really lucky. It’s very lucky to have twins anyway, but having such special twins is so adorable, it’s wonderful, they are a blessing, ”Roberts told the outlet.
Roberts said she and her husband, Rhys, went to a fertility clinic in Bath, England, to get a drug to help with ovulation.
“In my first cycle with that drug, we got pregnant,” she told CBS News.
It wasn’t until the 12-week exam for her first baby that she was expecting two children.
“I had just talked to the sonographer about my previous exam, so she was aware that I would only have one child, so she was very quiet. I thought something horrible had happened because she said nothing, ”she told Independent.
“Then she looked at me and said if you knew you were pregnant with twins. My heart skipped a beat, actually I told her ‘is he real? “
Roberts became pregnant with the twins through a phenomenon known as superfetation.
It occurs when an egg is released from a woman’s ovary after she is already pregnant and implanted next to the first embryo.
Superfetation – which produces what is known as “super twins” – is very rare and there are only a few documented cases in the world, the media reported.
Although their babies had different birth dates, Roberts gave birth to the two of them on the same day in September 2020, the media reported.
“They couldn’t be born apart as there is a huge risk of infection,” said Roberts. “It was strange, since Rosalie’s birth date was three weeks after Noah’s.”
But she said she is grateful for the experience that taught her that “anything is possible”.
“It wasn’t supposed to happen, but it happened. The female body is incredible, ”she told CBS News.