China News Service, Beijing, September 4th (Wei Xianghui) The twins fought in their mother's womb?
Recently, a news of "twins fighting in the stomach and bruised after being born" caused heated discussions among netizens.
The publisher also uploaded images and videos of fetal movements.
These were quickly questioned by medical professionals.
At present, the publisher has deleted the relevant information.
Doctors say the vast majority of twins don't touch each other in the mother's womb, unless they're monochorionic twins, a very high-risk twin pregnancy that doesn't happen very often.
Screenshots of multiple bruises on the body of the twins after the birth of the twins.
Twins fight in the womb or false proposition
"Everyone might as well imagine what it feels like to be active in the swimming pool." In response to the popular video of twins fighting in their stomachs after being born with bruises, the Weibo titled "Obstetrics and Gynecology Department" Dr. Chen,” the health blogger said in a post.
The above video is from a Hunan treasure mother.
In the video, the twin brothers seem to be "punching and kicking" in the mother's belly, and the mother's pregnant belly also fluctuates, and the twins are covered in bruises after birth.
The news quickly aroused heated discussions among netizens.
Questions such as "Is the fetus so strong?" and "How uncomfortable should the mother be?" also appeared in the comment area.
In the opinion of "Doctor Chen of Obstetrics and Gynecology", it is a false proposition that twins fight in the stomach.
The fetuses don't have good control of their hands and feet, she said.
The stretches and kicks they do in the womb are unconscious behaviors, not fights.
The hands and feet of the fetus are not as strong as adults, and there is amniotic fluid as a buffer.
"When they move their hands and feet, they don't actually do any real harm to each other," she said.
A health blogger named "Doctor Xu Chao" on Weibo also described the news with "too many slots and no mouths" on Weibo.
He said that the movements of the twins in the uterus are basically unconscious. Reaching out and reaching out is not a fight, and there is amniotic fluid buffered across the amniotic sac, which will hardly cause "harm" to each other.
He also mentioned that the twin images in the video came from the Internet, which is similar to the video he shared.
As for the fetal movement video taken, it is impossible to determine whether it is from the uploader himself.
Screenshot of Weibo of health blogger "Doctor Xu Chao".
What's the matter with newborn "bruises"?
As for the marks on the twins' bodies after birth in the video, they were bruises caused by "fights", but doctors disagreed.
In an interview with the media, the obstetrician of the Jiangsu Maternal and Child Health Hospital said that the scars on the head mentioned in the video may be caused by calcium deficiency in the child; A form of hypermelanosis, also known as Mongolian spots, will slowly subside.
According to "Doctor Chen of Obstetrics and Gynecology" in the article, Mongolian spots and bruises look similar, but they are not bruises.
Mongolian spots are common in yellow races and usually disappear by preschool age.
In addition, the incidence of birthmarks in newborns is about 10%.
Both birthmarks and Mongolian spots are common in newborns.
She said that most birthmarks do not need to be treated, and a few that will affect your health should be actively treated.
For example, animal skin moles may turn into melanoma and should be surgically removed.
There are also a few birthmarks, if they are longer than the face or other exposed body surface parts, it will affect the appearance, and further affect the psychological development of children, and should also be treated actively.
Screenshot of doctor's rumor video.
This type of twin needs extra attention
So, how exactly do twins get along in their mother's womb?
It is understood that twins are medically divided into double velvet double sheep twins, single velvet double sheep twins and single velvet single sheep twins.
Among them, double velvet double sheep twins develop from two fertilized eggs respectively, so there are two gestational sacs and two placentas, and the fetuses can be of different genders.
Monochorionic twins are fertilized from one follicle, so there is only one placenta, and two yolk sacs can be seen, separated.
To put it simply, the twins are like two people living in two houses, while the twins are like two people living in a house, but in different rooms.
For the most part, there will be no "conflict" between these two types of twins.
What is prone to problems is monochorionic single sheep twins, that is, the same fertilized egg develops, so the two fetuses share a placenta, but there is no amniotic membrane separation between the placentas, and the fetuses are the same sex.
This is equivalent to two fetuses living in the same room.
The WeChat public account "Popular Science China" once published an article introducing that a few years ago, there was a video of twin sisters "fighting" in their mother's belly, which also received tens of millions of views and became a hot spot.
The twins that the mother-to-be was carrying were single-wool single-sheep twins, and she also went through a difficult and uneasy process of protecting the fetus.
The article mentioned that single-vessel single-sheep twins are a very high-risk twin pregnancy, and the possibility of intrauterine accidents due to tangled and knotted umbilical cords is high.
According to statistics, through natural conception, the probability of conceiving twins is 3%, while the probability of single-vessel single-sheep twins is only 1-2%, and the single-sheep single-sheep twins that are finally delivered smoothly account for only 50%.
Therefore, doctors also remind pregnant women of such twins that they must pay attention to the obstetric examination.
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