FORT WORTH, Texas - Cara Winhold found out she was pregnant in March 2021, but nearly one month later she found out she was pregnant again."When the tech told us there was another baby, we thought it was a joke at first and laughed until we saw the super tiny sac up on the screen and heard his heartbeat," Winhold told FOX Television Stations. "Once they left the room to give my husband and I some time to process, I just remember laying on the table and breaking down in tears.
I was happy, scared, and confused all at the same time. I didn’t understand how it happened." The 30-year-old said her husband, Blake, was sitting "very stoically" in the room, not talking when the news was delivered.Cara Winhold with her husband and children (Credit: Cara Winhold) "He told me later he was in total shock and all he could think about was, ‘How are we going to do this?‘" Winhold revealed.The doctors determined the two babies were conceived about one week apart due to the measurements of their sacs.While double pregnancies are very rare, health experts say they can happen through a process called superfetation.This is when a second new pregnancy occurs during an initial pregnancy.
Another egg is fertilized by sperm and implanted in the womb days or weeks later than the first one. Babies born from superfetation are often considered twins since they may be born during the same birth on the same day.The doctors determined the two babies were conceived about one week apart due to the measurements of their sacs. (Credit: Cara Winhold) "In order to have a double pregnancy, you’d have to either ovulate while pregnant or have two uteri.