How to Pregnant while Pregnant 2009

She and her husband learned that she was carrying two babies and they’re not twins. They were conceived two and half weeks apart. Doctors suspect it is a condition called superfetation, although they can’t officially confirm it until after the babies are born and chromosomal studies are performed.

In layman’s terms — it means Grovenburg got pregnant, while she was already pregnant.

The expectant mom was interviewed by 5News in Fort Smith and recalled the day she found out. The ultrasound indicated a perfectly healthy baby and then “about two or three minutes later she said, ‘And baby No. 2 has got a healthy little heartbeat,’ and I just started gagging … I mean, I was getting sick.”

The couple visited specialists in Little Rock who agreed that the condition is likely superfetation.

“It’s fun I mean, we feel blessed to have something so rare and as of this point they’re perfectly healthy,” Grovenburg told 5News . Watch her extended interview below.

The condition is extremely rare and reports of it are often viewed with suspicion. In 2001, an Italian woman, Flavia D’Angelo, claimed to have gotten pregnant with triplets three months after her initial pregnancy. It garnered worldwide attention until it was exposed as a hoax.

“We invented the story about the double pregnancy, and weren’t able to stop it,” she said in a 2002 BBC report .