Pregnancy ultrasounds are usually a time of joy and happiness as the parents-to-be get a sneak peek at their growing baby. But the emotion felt by this couple during their first trimester scan was most definitely extreme shock as they found out theirs was a one in 70 million conception.
A couple from Utah, USA were shocked to discover they were pregnant with two sets of identical twins. Ashley and Tyson Gardner are having quadruplets, after a rare occurrence meant that two of the implanted embryos split.
After struggling for years to fall pregnant with even one baby, Ashley and Tyson Gardner are now expecting four children. The couple had spent years in fertility treatment after Ashley, 27, was diagnosed with endometriosis in her early twenties. The condition means that tissue grows outside the uterus affecting fertility.
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