Can you get pregnant while pregnant?
Pregnant while pregnant –how and why does it happen?
This topic swarmed the internet a few months ago when a woman in England was diagnosed with the condition and gave birth to a healthy baby boy and girl conceived three weeks apart.
Superfetation is an extremely rare situation, with only a few cases ever reported, during which a second pregnancy implants a few days or weeks after an initial pregnancy.
“Don’t panic,” says Dr. Francesca Popper, OB-GYNE at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Lakeview. “Superfetation is exceedingly rare and the likelihood of it happening is very small. This is no reason to avoid intercourse during pregnancy because of fear that you may conceive again with an entirely different sperm and egg joining together.”
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A man faces an attempted murder charge after allegedly beating a woman and taking off with her belongings last month in Lake View East.
Paul Woebel, 47, of Ravenswood, struck the woman with a blunt object, possibly a pipe, as she walked her dog May 14 in the 500 block of West Hawthorne Place, Chicago police said.
He hit the 42-year-old woman in the head and body around 8:30 p.m. and then took her belongings and left, police said. The woman was treated at Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
Woebel was arrested Monday about a block from the beating, in the 3400 block of North Lake Shore Drive, police said.
CHICAGO Eight people were wounded in a shooting at a party early Sunday morning in the Burnside neighborhood on the South Side, according to the Chicago Police Department. About 4 a.m., several gunmen approached guests who were gathered on a sidewalk, on a patio and in a doorway at 89th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue and opened fire, police said. There were more than 40 bullet casings found .
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A 17-year-old boy was hurt in a shooting Tuesday night in Lincoln Park on the North Side.
About 7:30 p.m., the teen boy was near a parking lot in the 2000 block of North Burling Street when he heard shots and felt pain, Chicago police said.
He suffered a graze wound on the arm and self-transported to Illinois Masonic Medical Center in good condition, police said.
No one is in custody as area detectives investigate. Next Up In Crime