re: twins

It is not possible to get pregnant a few months after you are already pregnant..

However, it is possible that you can get pregnant with fraternal twins and 2 seperate occasions. Some women when ovulating can release 2 eggs, even a day or so apart. I watched an entire documentary on it. Infact according tothe documentary1 in 400 sets of fraternal twins were conceived on seperate days. And it has also been documented, that there have been Fraternal Twins from different fathers. Hard to fathom, but entirely possible! Can you imagine having twins, but them having different dads? Try explaining that one to everyone and their brother! LOL!

Quoting i3rittanydanielle:“ It can and has happen.”

http://www.drspock.com/faq/0,1511,10405,00.html

No, it cant.

It looks like acording to that, It can happen EARLY before you forn a Plug, and LATE after you lose your plug. But not in the middle area.
So he babys could be a little age diffrence, but not by too much

haha, Ya see She could have only gotten pregegrs if both eggs and where already in there, and they got fertilized close to arund the same time before hormones kick in. But if they are sharing a sac/egg, Then that would not Explain the diffrence.
If they are idetical they come from one egg.

There was a womann who gave birth to babies. One was 28 weeks and the other 32.

Well there are definitely no shortage of medical opinions out there. Strange things happen medically every day...like fetus in fetu where one fetus develops inside of another. Anyway, is it possible that your dates are wrong and you are actually not 5 weeks along? In that case, (I'm sorry to even think this) maybe one twin is developing normally and the other is delayed for some reason?

exactly...the only thing I can guess would be TTTS...Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome. When one baby actually starves the other baby for nutrients for lack of a better term. One baby grows at a normal rate, while the other struggles to grow. There are procedures to try and combat this. But if what she's saying is true and one baby is "3 months larger" and the other is measuring on schedule, I have no clue how to explain that one...because that's not TTTS...

It def. can be TTTS. That may explain why the other is so much bigger than the other. I didn't say that it is possible to get pregnant 5 months after she has already been pregnant. I was just saying it is possible to get pregnant after already being pregnant.

Its not TTTS if one baby is normal and the other is 3 months larger....it'd be TTTS if one baby was normal and the other was significantly smaller.

I would ask the doctor about it.

I know its true a lot of woman start off with twins and one never makes it. Not liek months later, but verry common to have twins and only one develpoe fully.

Well good luck in any case, and let us know what the doctor ends up saying. Hopefully it was an error some how.

I think the OP may have made a typo and meant 3 weeks and not 3 months. At least I hope so anyway.. because that would just be way too strange.

thanx to all the congrats out there.. they wre in the same sac.... but wow lol