Woman Conceives While Already Pregnant, Gives Birth To Twin Babies

A Texas woman who suffered three back-to-back miscarriages has revealed how she conceived while already pregnant and gave birth to twin babies.

Cara Winhold, 30, and her husband Blake, 33, sought to have a second baby after the birth of their son, Wyatt, in 2018. Unfortunately, the woman lost her three babies to miscarriages that took place in 2019, 2020 and 2021, with the second one proving to be a near-fatal experience for her, according to the New York Post.

Winhold then fell pregnant the fourth time in March 2021, only a month after her third miscarriage. During her second scan, she was told that her uterus had two babies, conceived a week apart due to a rare phenomenon called superfetation.

"I got pregnant while I was already pregnant," Winhold told Tyla.com. "I said to the doctor, 'What happened? He wasn't there the first time. What's going on?"

"She said that most likely I ovulated twice, released two eggs and they got fertilized at different times, about a week apart," the woman also recalled the doctor as saying.

Superfetatation is an incredibly rare event in which a pregnant female can have another pregnancy in a week or a few days' time. Due to the time gap, the second embryo is likely to have slower growth than the first one.

As a result of superfetation, Winhold welcomed her twins, Colson and Cayden, six minutes apart on Oct. 24, 2021. There was a 4-pound weight difference between the babies, having been conceived seven days apart. Because of this, the mother has to buy different sizes of clothing and nappies for the twin boys.

It doesn't matter, however, because she couldn't be happier with her three kids. In fact, she is convinced that her last pregnancy was a miracle. "I 100% believe it was a miracle just because of everything that happened in my pregnancy journey," the woman was quoted as saying by Tyla.com. "I like to believe that it was my way of getting back the two babies that I lost."

Winhold told the outlet she lost a baby girl when she miscarried in 2019. She also recounted the harrowing experience she had during her second miscarriage in 2020, saying, "It was happening and I was lying in bed and I would get up and go to the bathroom and there was a lot of blood."

The mother then recalled that her husband pressed her to visit the hospital and when she did so, she was shocked to learn that the baby was stuck in her cervix, which meant she could have died in a matter of just 30 minutes if she didn't arrive at the hospital.

"I blacked out and they said that the tissue, which I guess is what they call the baby, had gotten stuck in my cervix and I was bleeding out and they said if I had stayed home for maybe thirty more minutes I would have died," she was cited as saying by the outlet.

Winhold went on to share that by February 2021, she became pregnant again, only to face yet another heartbreaking miscarriage. However, her pain turned into tears of joy upon having Colson and Cayden in her arms.

Now, she feels blessed to be a mom of three boys. "I'm blessed with a house of boys," the New York Post quoted her as saying.