A mother who suffered three heartbreaking miscarriages went on to give birth to ‘miracle’ twins by getting pregnant while she was already pregnant
A mother who suffered three heartbreaking miscarriages went on to give birth to ‘miracle’ twins by getting pregnant while she was already pregnant.
Cara Winhold, 30, and her husband Blake, 33, from North Richland Hills, , welcomed their sons Colson and Cayden on October 25, 2021, who were conceived a week apart.
The twins were the result of superfetation, an incredibly rare phenomenon in which a second pregnancy occurs a few days or weeks after an initial pregnancy.
‘I got pregnant while I was already pregnant,’ Cara explained.’I said to the doctor, “What happened? He wasn’t there the first time. What’s going on?”
Cara Winhold, 30, and her husband Blake, 33, welcomed their ‘miracle’ twins Colson and Cayden on October 25, 2021
The twins were the result of superfetation, an incredibly rare phenomenon in which a second pregnancy occurs a few days or Mantap168 link alternatif weeks after an initial pregnancy
‘She said that most likely I ovulated twice, released two eggs, and they got fertilized at different times, about a week apart.’
‘I 100 percent believe it was a miracle just because of everything that happened in my pregnancy journey,’ she added. ‘I like to believe that it was my way of getting back the two babies that I lost and kind of them helping out in a way.
‘I can’t think of any other explanation for having twins — it was 100 percent natural and they don’t run in my family.It was a total surprise.’
Cara and her husband, Blake, had dreamed of expanding their family after the birth of their now-three-year-old son Wyatt in 2018.
Cara and Blake dreamed of expanding their family after the birth of their son Wyatt in 2018, but the former teacher miscarried a baby girl in 2019
When she miscarried a second time in 2020, she almost bled out and died.Cara miscarried for a third time in early 2021, but she found out she was pregnant again a month later
During her second scan, she was surprised to learn she was actually expecting two babies after conceiving a second child a week after the first
‘I like to believe that it was my way of getting back the two babies that I lost and kind of them helping out in a way,’ Cara (pictured 22 weeks pregnant) said of rare pregnancy
The former teacher miscarried a baby girl in 2019.When she miscarried again in 2020, she almost died.
‘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,’ she recalled, but when she called her doctor, she was told the bleeding was ‘normal.’