A pregnant woman shocked US doctors when she had a scan which showed her baby girl – and a second, younger male baby beside her. Julia Grovenburg conceived the second baby two-and-a-half weeks after the first and they are both developing side by side in her womb. The babies are an extremely rare case of [...]

Pregnancy (latin graviditas) is the carrying of one or more offspring, known as a fetus or embryo, inside the uterus of a female human. In a pregnancy, there can be multiple gestations, as in the case of twins or triplets. Human pregnancy is the most studied of all mammalian pregnancies. Obstetrics is the medical field [...]