I have read about a claim that all humans are born as twins but, in most cases, at the very first stages of embryo development, the second baby vanishes, leaving a single foetus behind. However, I read about it in a book of fiction--the sort of book where the writer can fabricate all sorts of things freely.
2006-06-23 08:52:15 · 8 answers · asked by Lien21890 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
you must have read wrong. b/c not everybody is born as a twin. that doesn't happen very often. but it happens very early in pregnancy. when a women gets an ultrasound very early in pregnancy and finds out that she's having twins. but later in the pregnancy when she is about 3 - 4 months along, they will give her another ultrasound and only find one baby. that is called vanishing twin syndrome, when the cells merge into one or the other one dies off and only one is left. there is such thing.
everybody being born as a twin is FALSE.
2006-06-23 09:46:57 · answer #1 · answered by Pearlz 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Yes, there is a such thing a vanishing twin syndrome. Not all pregnancies start out as twins though. I miscarried one of my twins at 6 weeks gestation. The only reason we knew it was twins was because of an early ultrasound to find out the reason for my bleeding. I had two babies in there but only one had a heartbeat. My body absorbed and expelled the other embryo. That is why it is called the vanishing twin syndrom.
2006-06-23 09:34:33 · answer #2 · answered by jillie76 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there is such a thing, but *no* it is not true that all or even most pregnancies start out as twins. Some scientists believe that up to 10% of pregnancies start out as twin conceptions, but that about 90% of those develop into vanishing twin syndrome.
2006-06-24 09:30:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No truth to that, but there is such a thing as vanishing twin syndrom it's just not the way you are stating it
Do a google search and get all the info you need
Good luck
2006-06-23 09:33:42 · answer #4 · answered by momie_2bee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well there is such a thing, but not every human starts out as a twin. Sometimes one twin will miscarry and the mother's body (or sometimes the other fetus's body) will absorb it.
2006-06-23 09:02:47 · answer #5 · answered by all_my_armour_falling_down 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes it is true
it is estimated the as many as 1 in ten babys started out as a twin
2006-06-23 09:03:25 · answer #6 · answered by tpuahlekcip 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No its not true.It does happen in some sets of twins however.
2006-06-23 08:55:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
iv heard of that but i do not believe it
2006-06-23 09:06:55 · answer #8 · answered by topi5389 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋