Commentary for Yevamot 130:18

לסוף איגלאי מילתא אמר לה איכו ילדת לי חדא כרסא אחריתא דאמר מר יהודה וחזקיה אחי פזי וטוי

Judah and Hezekiah were twins. The features of the one were developed at the end of nine months, and those of the other were developed at the beginning of the seventh month.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The former was born three months before the latter. Cf. Nid. 27a. ');">⁴²</span> Judith,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Their mother. ');">⁴³</span> the wife of R. Hiyya, having suffered in consequence agonizing pains of childbirth, changed her clothes [on recovery] and appeared<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In her disguise. ');">⁴⁴</span> before R. Hiyya. 'Is a woman', she asked, 'commanded to propagate the race'? — 'No', he replied. And relying on this decision,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'she went'. ');">⁴⁵</span> she drank a sterilizing potion. When her action finally became known, he exclaimed, 'Would that you bore unto me only one more issue of the womb!'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' One other pair of twin sons at least. ');">⁴⁶</span> For a Master stated: Judah and Hezekiah were twin brothers and Pazi and Tawi

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