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Imagine the horror, or wait, imagine perhaps the shock, surprise, and elation experienced when Todd and Julia Grovenburg learned, from Julia’s ultrasound, that she was in fact pregnant again. How can this malady take place? Doctors believe that Julia and Todd at first conceived baby Jilian, then two-and-a-half weeks later, “voila,” another baby was discovered. There is actually a name for this rare occurrence: superfetation, when a mother becomes pregnant while she is already pregnant. However, it’s up to debate as to whether or not there is anything “super” about it. Perhaps instruction ought to be readily in place, and pushed down the throats of America, about the possible pitfalls that can occur from engaging in unremitting sex while pregnant—not really.

According to Dr. Karen Boyle of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, “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.”

Boyle later told ABC that she has only heard of ten cases of superfetation, yet it is premature to presume that this is the case, not until the babies are born whereby proper metabolic and chromosomal tests can be administered. Until then, we wait intently on pins and needles.