Sophie Small and her husband, Jonathan, from Herefordshire, are an innocent couple just trying to expand their family and did not know they would end up with one of the rarest pregnancy stories.
The couple already had one child and wanted a second. Sophie was not particularly worried about conceiving because she was “very fertile” and did not struggle to get pregnant with her firstborn.Sophie and Jonathan kept on trying in December, but then Sophie started experiencing terrible headaches, which she did not make anything of.
The couple thought they did not conceive in December, so they tried again in January. This time they received the good news that they were expecting twins.
However, Sophie’s pregnancy started to bring her multiple health issues; she went to the doctor and discovered something shocking about her unborn children.The Shocking Surprise About Sophie’s Children
Sophie recalled suffering from the worst morning sickness that had her in and out of the hospital. She was hospitalized about seven or eight times, spending up to 120 hours on a drip.
But Sophie was only seven weeks pregnant when she was informed she was carrying two babies. But even more shocking was that the babies were different sizes, but doctors could not figure out why.
The mother of three admitted that she was in disbelief, she went to the hospital expecting twins but carrying two children of different sizes took her aback. “I was expecting twins, but one was bigger than the other. They knew something was not right,” she recalled..
Trying to process the shock of carrying two babies, Sophie looked back at her headaches and said she felt pregnant but thought she might not be. But in the second month, the morning sickness became unbearable.
The scan at seven weeks only established that Sophie was carrying two children, because the doctors could not figure out why she got so sick.When Sophie was 29 weeks, she could not feel one of the children’s movements, which worried the mother. She needed to be induced into labor, but the doctors managed to delay it with medication...CONTINUE READING