An Australian woman who got pregnant twice in ten days in a rare medical case has given birth to twins.
Kate Hill was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in 2006, which stopped her from ovulating and was undergoing hormone therapy when she fell pregnant. She had been told she may never be able to have children.
Kate and her husband had unprotected sex once during the ovulation period but she fell pregnant twice due to a rare occurrence known as superfetation, with only 10 cases documented worldwide.
“I ovulated again,” she explained in a chat with Adelaide’s Today Tonight. “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.”
Mrs Hill’s obstetrician, Dr Brad Armstrong, admitted he had to search on Google to find out more information about the case.
“I’ve never ever seen it before. It was so rare that I could not find any literature on the medical review websites at all. .. I had to go and Google it,” he said.
