Super Twins
QUESTION
Dear Midwife,
Hello. My fiancé and I went in for our first ultra sound today. They have discovered a second sack.
The first one is 7 weeks 4 days old. The second sack shows a just a yolk so they are not sure on age or if it didn't progress.
My mother is a super twin. She was conceived 1 month later than her twin sister.
Is it possible this could be the same scenario. What are the odds? Thank you very much for your time.
Jesse
ANSWER
Sure, such things tend to be genetic. Congratulations!
-- Cynthia, CNM. PhD.
Cynthia Flynn
Cynthia Flynn, CNM. PhD, is the General Director of the Family Health and Birth Center which provides prenatal, birth, postnatal, gynecological and primary health care to underserved women and their families in Washington, D.C. Recently Cynthia served as Associate Professor of Nursing at Seattle University. There she not only taught, but remained in full scope clinical midwifery practice at Valley Medical Center where she cared for pregnant and birthing women, and practices well-woman gynecology, family planning, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
Cynthia founded Columbia Women's Clinic and Birth Center, where she took care of pregnant women and infants up to two weeks of age and attended both birth center and hospital births. Before Cynthia earned her CNM, she worked as a registered nurse in labor and delivery and postpartum and is a certified Doula and Doula trainer.
