Double pregnancy She is having one kid soon and three months later triples

[Todd]

An Italian woman is due to give birth in a hospital in Rome this week to a baby girl - before returning three months later to have triplets.
If both deliveries are successful, it is thought that this will be the first such case in history.

Flavia D'Angelo, 20, denies suggestions that she might have had hormone or fertility treatment. She has already named her first child Denise.

She told Italian television: "When I was at the sixth month of my pregnancy and went to see the doctor for the usual tests and scans, he noticed that, apart from Denise, there were another three babies.

"I didn't believe it at first. I remember asking the doctor to make sure because I just couldn't understand how it was possible.

"The difficult thing is not knowing what is going to happen after Denise is born. After that it is all suppositions and theories."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1651000/1651259.stm

Not possible

Professor Ian Craft, director of the London fertility clinic, said it should not be theoretically possible for a woman to be pregnant twice at the same time.

He said: "Normally when you are pregnant you switch off your ovulation, and you don't then ovulate again and you have no periods until your child is born and you are at least part the way through breastfeeding.

"I have never seen it in my whole professional career."

Professor Craft said the condition, known technically as superfecundation, does occur rarely in animals.

However, he said it was extraordinary for someone to conceive naturally and then to spontaneously ovulate three eggs again. The chance of having triplets is only one in 6,000.

"How often would you expect these two combinations to go together? You are more likely to win the lottery."

Professor Craft said there was a high risk that the triplets would be born prematurely.

He said there were also difficult questions about how the first child should be delivered to minimise risk to the triplets.

 

[Beebeeblue]

Wouldnt she have to have 2 uterus to be able to do that????? Thats just too weird.

 

[Fly_On_Wall]

no not 2 i have a cousin that had twins months apart

she went into early labour and had one baby then it just stoped
the second wasn't ready to be born yet this is rare when it happens, but it does, and the doctor will keep an eye on the mother the whole while. but one then 3 i've never heard of that

 

[miles]

She's a baby machine - like a Pez candy dispenser.

 

[EMT's Wife]

I think that is the strangest thing I have ever heard. Interesting, but strange.

 

[PowerOfOne]

Very interesting. Very strange and I hope that it never happens to me!!

 

[Gilly Bean]

no not 2 i have a cousin that had twins months apart

she went into early labour and had one baby then it just stoped
the second wasn't ready to be born yet this is rare when it happens, but it does, and the doctor will keep an eye on the mother the whole while. but one then 3 i've never heard of that

That's different then getting pregnant two times like the article Todd submitted, though.

With multiple births, they are concieved at the same time. Birthdate isn't always the same because of difficulties. One baby can be delivered while the other remains in utero.


Now, with Todds story, the 4 babies were not concieved together. You have one uterus, and when you concieve a child, that uterus effectivly closes off, allowing the baby to grow fostered within it. If the uterus were to open again, it happens when the mother goes into labor.

The uterus is where your child lives. The amniotic fluid is there, cushioning the child, and the placenta is there, sustaining the child. It is in essence, a ball. The child grows in it.

As BeeBeeBlue pointed out, in order for this to happen, she would have to have two uterus's. Or, more effectivly, two reproductive systems. The filopian tubes need to attach to the uterus to release an egg, so she would need two sets of those, which would result in two sets of overies.

So, putting aside the fact that they would have caught two reproductive systems while they did the first ultrasound, and ignoring the fact that she would have still had to ovulate, which means she would have had a period during this, then I guess someone out there could believe it.

But, I for one don't. Rarely, some people do have periods during pregnancy. I knew a girl from High School who didn't realize she was pregnant until she was around 5 months along, because of this. However, her doctor explained it that she was shedding blood because the signals in her body mixed up somewhere. It was not sending out eggs. The blood was just forming, then it was shedding.

 

[Fly_On_Wall]

Okay sorry Gilly, I know alote more then i should about the female reproductive system, i grew up around mostly women and still am around more women then not. but i didn't read everythig that Todd wrote, No offence to Todd but I rarly ever make it through one of your posts. I have reading troubles so if it's a long post or a huge web page.... I read some of it then trail off... I'll even admit Gilly I didn't read all of what you had to say. but it's not because you or anyone else is boreing
I should start trying harder to read the long posts so i don't miss something.

 

[Starfish]

I hate to say it, but this woman is at high risk for MAJOR complications.


I won't be surprised if she delivers all 4 at the same time, and the other three don't make it too well.

When the uterus begins the contractions, and labor begins, it isn't like her uterus is going to be able to selectivly pick what babies come out and what ones don't. Scary shit.