An already pregnant woman who gets pregnant again! Shocking? Amazing? This is called [wikipop]Superfetation[/wikipop]. Julia Grovenburg is a pregnant woman in Arkansas who has been diagnosed today as being pregnant with another baby again while she is still pregnant with a first baby.

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You must be thinking about twins? But this is not the case. In cases of twins, the babies are born at the same time and ovulation occurred at almost the same time. But in this particular case which doctors called Superfetation, Julia is already pregnant and is expected to deliver in December 2009 but now while she awaits her baby, the doctors have noticed that there is another baby in formation in her womb!

Yea a 2nd baby which started to grow weeks after the first one was diagnosed.

“When the woman had her ultrasound initially, they saw one sack, one baby developing, and that baby had a certain gestational age; then they noticed a second heartbeat in a child that was much, much younger developmentally,” Dr. Karen Boyle of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center said.

Cases of Superfetation is really rare. The younger baby now somehow is in danger of being born prematurely. The older baby is expected to be in this world by end of December 2009 while the younger recently detected one is expected in Mid January 2010. However due to the first delivery expected in December 2009, the younger one can also be delivered and this could cause serious health problems due to premature delivery.

Nature is an amazing engineer we would say!

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