Did something happen to the fetus?
Mary also had the same uneasy thoughts.
She anxiously asked the OB-GYN, "What's wrong, doctor? Say something! You're scaring us."
Mary pat Sonia on the shoulder to reassure her as she spoke. "Easy, Young Mistress Sonia, nothing bad will happen."
Even so, Mary knew that Sonia could not just stay calm.
It's not me who's expecting a child and I'm worried sick. Naturally, Young Mistress Sonia would definitely be more anxious and concerned than everybody else.
As soon as the doctor noticed Sonia and Mary's anxious faces, he grinned and said, "Oh, Mrs. Fuller, don't be alarmed. Things are not as bad as you think. Instead, it is something positive."
"What positive thing?" Sonia and Mary exchanged glances after hearing the doctor's words.
Mary finally exhaled a sigh of relief and asked, "Gosh, Doctor, you scared us with that expression just now."
Sonia didn't say anything, but she gave the doctor a resentful glance.
"I'm sorry. I didn't anticipate things to turn out like this, so I couldn't hold it in," the OB-GYN said with an apologetic smile.
"So, what's the good news, Doctor?" Sonia asked hastily while clenching her hands.
"Yeah. Please explain everything clearly, Doctor. What is going on?" Mary asked as she nodded instantly.
Without further ado, he handed over the examination report to them.
Sonia took a look at the report and eventually noticed that something was unusual. She widened her eyes in shock immediately, exclaiming, "What does this mean? What do you mean by healthy twin pregnancy..."
Wait.
Seeing Sonia's bewildered look, the OB-GYN nodded with a smile. "That's right, Mrs. Fuller. It's exactly what you think. Congratulations, you're expecting twins."
It took some time for Mary to grasp the doctor's explanation. She then came back to her senses. "What did you say? Twins?"
"Yeah," the doctor replied.
“How is this possible?” Mary grabbed the report from Sonia's hand as she couldn't believe the news. When she saw the report results, she was forced to believe it.
"Is this true? But how is this even possible?" Mary expressed her confusion.
Sonia felt the same. "Yeah, Doctor. Why am I expecting twins? It was clear that there was only one child when I did the ultrasound. "
Sonia promptly questioned as she touched her stomach. "I have undergone numerous prenatal examinations over the past three months. No one told me that it's a set of twins the entire time."
Why does the checkup result say it's a pair of twins this time?
The OB-GYN explained with a smile as she observed the two's startled and perplexed expressions, "I understand how you two feel. This is extremely unbelievable. Although it is a rare case in the medical field, there are still similar cases. In fact, some twins will develop their embryos simultaneously, resulting in twins. However, some embryos will develop at different times, making it possible to detect only one embryo initially and the second one later at a different stage."
"Does it indicate that this second fetus was just recently formed?" Sonia asked, blinking in curiosity.
"The time it takes for the father's gene to fuse with the mother's gene has been delayed by more than two months. It has actually been there in your body for a very long period. It is merely a baby with developmental delays," the OB-GYN explained.
Sonia understood it now. In layman's words, the first baby developed far faster than the second, who just began growing after two months.
"Oh, it's no surprise that it was not discovered that you have twins all along, Young Mistress. This is such a miraculous occurrence," said Mary who found it amusing.
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