I just learned that women can literally get pregnant when they are already pregnant. It is called superfetation. I swear to fucking god nature hates us. WE ARE NEVER SAFE. 😭😭😭😭
It’s only happened like 10 times we know in humans. And technically that’s what happens for fraternal twins, it’s just spaced farther apart
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Anonymous8w
Like imagine being pregnant and then getting pregnant again with a fucking non-twin baby that you will birth weeks after the first one! What the actual fuck?! Going through labor then literally ripping your coochie open AGAIN. 😭
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Anonymous8w
i’d rather kms
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Anonymous8w
So does that mean it’s twins?? 🤨
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Anonymous8w
it doesn’t always happen that they’re so far apart that you give birth at different times, often you just have both of them. Idk maybe I’m just weird but I think it’s kinda cool that it can happen lol.
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Anonymous8w
I AM CRASHING OUT
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Anonymous8w
How likely is this tho??? Like what percent of pregnancies ???
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Anonymous8w
I’ve always wondered about this 🤔
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Anonymous8w
Why are they still OVULATING DURING PREGNANCY
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Anonymous#18w
Not exactly, twins happen when one fertilized egg splits in half. This happens when another egg is released and fertilized after the first one is already implanted/developing on its own. It can be weeks later.
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Anonymous#28w
Literally run me over with a car
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AnonymousOP8w
my brain can’t comprehend this like omg?? image it was 200 years ago and your holding your 1 month old and your water breaks 😳
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Anonymous#38w
It can happen though 😭
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Anonymous#18w
Literally
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AnonymousOP8w
you're about 75%! the splitting of one single egg results in identical twins, while having two fertilized eggs results in fraternal twins! however, you're correct in saying superfetation ≠ twins. the two pregnancies (twin vs. superfetation) hold a number of similarities though!
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Anonymous#78w
Roughly 0.0001% if that
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Anonymous#68w
Yeah I was gonna say, I feel like the birth of the first will just trigger the birth of the second.
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Anonymous#68w
Idk why people are crashing out from my first impression I think it’d be more of a drag to pop out the first and then instantly get pregnant again vs just surprise 2 at a time
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Anonymous#38w
I thought most twins were fraternal??
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Anonymous#108w
I mean the younger one doesn’t have great chances
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Anonymous#128w
Yes, about 2/3 twins are fraternal. I just mean they both happen from separate eggs being fertilized
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Anonymous#128w
Dizygotic twins usually are fertilized from the same encounter, in some instances the twins can be fertilized from different encounters and become twins still
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Anonymous#128w
most of the time the babies are close enough together that it isn’t a big issue, and survival rate for a baby after 30 wks of pregnancy is in the 90 percents. if there’s other complicating factors then maybe, but generally they’re not far apart enough for it to be a big issue.
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Anonymous#48w
I am a fraternal twin, I just assume most people don’t understand how we happen lol 😂 identical is the “default” twin concept.
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AnonymousOP8w
honestly that’s real. i’m a bio major though so i just couldn’t help myself lollll