Posted on 05/21/2009 10:00:45 AM PDT by RDTF
A Texas woman wasn't planning on two conceptions for the record books.
But that's what she got — along with two beautiful boys —when she gave birth to twins of different fathers nearly a year ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.msnbc.msn.com ...
What a difference a “t” makes. My only (weak) excuse is that I spell the unit of volume “litre”. As in: “there are 4.546 litres i a gallon”.
“There was no mention of her ability to work and/or otherwise support the kids.”
Work? What? She doesn’t need to work! Obama is sending her a check. He told her so. It must be true!
In perhaps less enlightened times she would have been sterilized as “feeble minded”.
Any suspicion that the error was anything other than a lapsis keyboardiae was taken care of with the hyper-super thing. The main function of that kind of typo is to serve as a source for creative foolishness, kind of like the “seed” for a pseudo random number generator ...
LOL It’s infuriating really when gross errors aren’t corrected. Increases the general ignorance of the populace.
You posited two different possibilities:
1) She must have ovulated again after becoming pregnant the first time. Technically one kid would be premature.
2) Or, in a RARE case when a woman ovulates producing more than one egg, one was a day (or hour, who knows) slower descending than the other.
My observation was that possibility "1" is EXTREMELY unlikely, medically speaking. Specifically, I simply can't imagine a woman who is already pregnant getting pregnant again at the time of her next cycle, with a 4-week-old embryo already implanted in her uterus.
On the other hand, possibility "2" happens all the time. It is not at all RARE. In fact, most twins are indeed fraternal, i.e., the result of the fertilization (by one or - yeeech - two men) of two separate and distinct ova which were released during the same phase of the woman's cycle.
And as for possibility "2," there is no need for any appreciable delay in the eggs descending the woman's uro-genital tract: An "old" sperm (perhaps from a different man) which had been hanging around for two or three days could get "washed up" together with a new "load."
There have even been cases of a woman becoming pregnant from two different men after having intercourse only with one man - that man having a "left over" sperm in his uro-genital tract from a different man, which he "picked up" from sex with a woman.
Fertiization is NOT all about perfect timing - spermatozoa are a lot hardier than generally believed.
Regards,
When I first heard about this story, I assumed it was in vitro. Apparently, a woman can have babies by different men that way. A couple of years ago I was watching “Bringing Home Baby” on TLC. A woman had given birth to “twin” girls by two gay men, as a surrogate, of course. She relinqished the babies to the gay couple. I watched in astonishing shock and sickness for these poor baby girls who had been subjected to this abusive perversion, legally. At the end of the show, it was revealed that the mother intended to be “involved” in their lives and they would also have a female caretaker. But talk about twisted.
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