Mum’s Rare Pregnancy Sees Her Baby Girls Conceived 10 Days Apart

A mother has had a very rare pregnancy that doctors have considered it a rare medical phenomenon that sees her baby girls conceived 10 days apart — known as superfetation.

Mum-of-two Kate Hill, from Brisbane, and her husband, Peter were struggling to conceive after Mrs Hill was diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome — a hormonal condition that left her unable to ovulate — in 2006.

Mrs Hill underwent hormone treatment and miraculously fell pregnant, not once, but twice, and conceived two babies, 10 days apart.

The conception is called superfetation, which means she fell pregnant while already expecting.

It was a medical phenomenon so rare there are only 10 medically documented cases of it in the world.

Mrs Hill told Today Tonight that women do not usually ovulate after they got pregnant — except her.

“Superfetation is extremely rare – I had fallen pregnant and my body had spontaneously released another egg giving the embryos different gestational ages.

“What makes this case even more rare, is that my husband and I only had intercourse one time his sperm stayed alive for 10 days to fertilise the second egg released,” she said.

She started with a single pregnancy with twins, before she conceived again 10 days later to be pregnant with triplets.

Unfortunately, the couple lost one of the babies early on in the pregnancy, and they were given two due dates December 20 and December 30, 2015.

However, the couple decided that their two baby girls, who they named Charlotte and Olivia, were born together two days before their scheduled caesarean.

The girls differed in size, weight and gestational development, including their blood types.

The amazing birth was captured by 2016 Australian Birth Photographer of the Year, Selena Rollason in a series of black-and-white images.

The adorable girls are now 10 months old.

Mrs Hill’s obstetrician, Dr Brad Armstrong from Greenslopes Private Hospital in Brisbane, said he had never seen a case of superfetation before that he could not find any literature about it on medical websites, and was forced to Google the condition.

Sources: Dailymail.co.uk and Au.news.yahoo.com