My wife and I did the whole in-vitro thing. In fact we did it four times. Three full rounds, with one round using our cryogenically frozen kidlets left over.

First round failed, second round failed, third round failed, and the fourth? Yeah, bupkis.

And then, we conceived without any intervention at all, except for perhaps a couple bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon, thus solidifying the question about whether or not God has a sense of humor.

Anyway, given our experience with in-vitro, when I read the news about Christa and Joseph MacKinnon, I spit my Americano half way across the room.

Feel free to follow the link, but here’s the summary:

Christa and Joseph MacKinnon went the in-vitro fertilization route to try and have their second child. They were cautious enough to put only two fertilized embryos in Christa’s uterus in order to minimize the likelihood of multiples. The most they could possibly get would be two – but the odds were stacked against that outcome, statistically.

Well, they didn’t get two. They didn’t even get one.

They got four.

How is that possible, you ask?

According to the article, it was a 70-million to one chance, but BOTH embryos split, thus creating two sets of identical twins. This may solidify that the “big guy” upstairs has a particularly biting sense of humor.

Congratulations to the MacKinnon’s. You might want to write to Ty Pennington over at ABC about his Extreme Makeover, Home Edition…

Tags: identical twins, in vitro, multiples, Twins