Born On The Same Day to the Same Mother - But They're NOT Twins

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	Born On The Same Day to the Same Mother - But They're NOT Twins

LorisKnight

9-29-2007 5:53 AM

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LorisKnight says:

Isn't this just semantics, though? They look alike, so shouldn't they be called twins? Or maybe science needs to update definitions.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9ace6da1-edcf-43e4-80b0-0ab22fb71954/D91B8BAF-AEE2-44C0-836C-984A98A235C1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/09/born-on-same-day-to-same-mother-but.html" href="http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/09/born-on-same-day-to-same-mother-but.html" style="font-size: 11px;">spluch.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/09/born-on-same-day-to-same-mother-but.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/spluch.blogspot.com/img/A4118829-182C-46B2-9913-149F5BC0D9B1" alt="Ame, Lia and their mother" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/09/born-on-same-day-to-same-mother-but.html"><DIV>To everyone who sees them, five-month-old Ame and Lia look like twins. And they were indeed born to the same mother just minutes apart. Amazingly, however, the sisters are not twins. They were conceived three weeks apart thanks to a million-to-one medical rarity.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/09/born-on-same-day-to-same-mother-but.html"><DIV>Doctors had to carry out an emergency caesarean to deliver the babies because they were both lying awkwardly in the womb. Ame was born at 29 weeks and Lia at 32.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/09/born-on-same-day-to-same-mother-but.html">Miss Spence became pregnant twice in three weeks while she was taking the contraceptive pill.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/09/born-on-same-day-to-same-mother-but.html"><B>An explanation for this unusual case:</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/09/born-on-same-day-to-same-mother-but.html">process known as superfetation</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/09/born-on-same-day-to-same-mother-but.html">formation of a foetus whilst another foetus is already present in the uterus.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/09/born-on-same-day-to-same-mother-but.html">when eggs from two separate menstrual cycles are released</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/09/born-on-same-day-to-same-mother-but.html"><DIV>The girls are technically not twins. 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