DAILY MAIL
A mother told she was pregnant with twins was left baffled when she found out that her daughters were actually conceived one month apart.
Sophie Small, 30, and her husband Jonathan, 34, from Leominster in Herefordshire, were trying for a second baby in 2019.
Mrs Small said she knew she was ‘very fertile’ because of how quickly she previously fell pregnant with her son Oscar, six.
Despite having an inkling that she fell pregnant in December after having headaches, the couple decided to keep trying in January 2020 just in case.
The swimming instructor was thrilled when a test confirmed she was pregnant, and scans suggested it was twins.
It wasn’t until Mrs Small gave birth to Darcy and Holly that doctors realised her pregnancy was an incredibly rare phenomenon, known as superfetation, when a second pregnancy occurs just days or weeks after the first.
