Rarest of rare medical case.
AB Wire
In a mind-boggling rare medical case, an Australian woman who became pregnant twice in 10 days has given birth to twins.
Kate Hill, who had been told by doctors she might never be able to have children, was amazed after the conception “miracle” with her husband Peter, reported The Telegraph.
She was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in 2006, which stopped her from ovulating, and was undergoing hormone therapy when she fell pregnant.
“They are definitely miracles,” she told Adelaide’s Today Tonight. “I’ve got PCOS and I wasn’t ovulating, so we were not conceiving. We didn’t actually realize how special that was until they were born.”
The delighted couple, from Brisbane, Queensland, welcomed twins Charlotte and Olivia 10 months ago.
They only had unprotected sex once during the ovulation period but Hill fell pregnant twice because of a rare occurrence known as superfetation, with only 10 cases documented worldwide.
“I ovulated again,” she explained. “Usually a woman doesn’t ovulate again once they fall pregnant with all the hormones, but Charlotte was coming no matter what – she was there.”