Identical Twin Sisters Caught Having 'First Fight' in Womb During Ultrasound
My oldest son and his sister fight like the proverbial cats and dogs. It’s not that they don’t love one another.
I catch them playing together nicely too often to think that they share some sort of lingering grudge. Sometimes, though, their wires get crossed just so, and they fly at one another, enraged over some perceived slight.
I grew up as an only child, so the ferocity of such bickering has perplexed me. However, a story out of China reminds me that such rivalry starts young — very, very young.
According to VT, a father in China recently filmed his wife’s ultrasound. It turned out that the mother-to-be was pregnant with twins.
They weren’t ordinary twins, either. Most twins have separate amniotic sacs, and they spend the pregnancy separated from one another.
But his mother’s babies were monoamniotic-monochorionic twins. Verywell Family describes these so-called “MoMo” twins as developing “from a single egg-sperm combination that splits into two.
“If the split is delayed, usually a week or so after conception, the processes of growing a placenta, chorion, and amniotic sac are already underway. The two embryos will then develop within a single, shared sac, resulting in MoMo twins.”
That’s what these two Chinese twins are. And their cramped quarters seemed to be grating on them during their ultrasound.
The video shows the girls facing each other. Their little heads bump and jostle.
If you look carefully, you can see their tiny legs shoving back and forth. Then they begin punching at each other.
The footage proved incredibly popular. After uploading it to Douyin, a popular social-media platform, users liked it 2.5 million times and left 80,000 comments.
The babies’ father, Mr. Tao, told news outlets that the girls were “boxing with each other for a few rounds.” He also discussed his surprise about how they were “internet stars before being born.”
MoMo twins face their own series of risks. One of the greatest of those involves developing a kink in an umbilical cords, which can put the unborn children at risk.
In fact, that was why Mrs. Tao had received an ultrasound in the first place. Doctors had noticed that one of the babies had lowered vital signs.
They quickly rushed her into the operating room, and both children were safely delivered via C-section.
General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University’s Deputy Director said, “The babies have been born safe and sound. … They are the first pair of Mo-Mo twins our hospital has successfully delivered.”
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