normally no but there is a way for two women to give birth to twins.....with each woman carrying one child...
biologically twins can happen in two ways....
1. one egg splits into two babies. this is called identical twins.
2. two eggs by the same person are fertilized by the same donor and those eggs develop into babies. this is called Fraternal Twins.
when you have two people of the same gender trying to have a child the process is called IVF (in Vitro Fertilization) its a process where donors are used.
my wife and I used the same donors and only one of us donated our eggs at a time...
Example my eggs were fertilized by only one mans sperm. When my wife wanted to be the pregnant one her eggs were fertilized with the same mans sperm ( the man is a friend of ours who kindly donated to us so that we may have children)
then the eggs were implanted in my womb. in the event that all implanted came to term my wife and I decided only to implant two not like those famous multiple births in the news.
of our combined children we do have a set of twins, born from one egg, but we did not split them up after they became viable fetuses. I carried them both. my wife was given the option but she was not ready physically at the same time I was.
my point is if you or your partner have one egg that is fertilized and that egg splits into two fetuses technically they are identical twins. regardless of who is the incubator. why because they came from the same egg and same mother and father.
that said everything must line up. its very rare for one egg to split into two babies in a lab setting.
both of your bodies must be synchronized so that you both are at the same point of ovulation and your wombs are fully ready for harvesting and implanting. this is done through a series of injections. then the harvesting happens, then the lab does their part of fertilizing, then when one egg has split in two fetuses (could be the first time harvesting is done or it could be the millionth time you go through the harvesting procedure could possibly never happen if your family lines has never had any twins in its family tree)
then the implantation process starts where both again get injections to again make the body reach ovulation in order to synchronize the womb, and hopefully the now viable fetus doesnt die in the lab while waiting for moms to be lined up physically,
then implantation of both is done.
then like normal the body fights the implantation because the body normally does reject foreign material in the body. so more injections, more meds,....
then the what have yous has to line up again where both you and your partners body makes it through the rejecting phase and does not miscarry, and bring the twins to term.
then everything has to line up again for the due dates and delivery process.
my points...... yes it can happen but its very very rare because all the different elements must line up perfectly.
its a very costly process, like in the thousands. and for some people it takes many years do go from start to holding their babies.
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