Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Triplets for woman with two wombs



A UK woman with two wombs is believed to be the first in the world with the condition to give birth to triplets. The women name is Hannah Kersey aging 24, from Northam in Devon gave birth to identical twins Ruby and Tilly, who were born from one womb, grace, who was born from the other.The girls had to stay in hospital for nine weeks after being born seven weeks early by Cesarean, after the 7th week period they returned to their mom.The chances of a woman with two wombs having twins or two separate births is estimated to be five million to one. Only 70 women in the world are known to have been pregnant in two wombs, reports suggest. The condition, which is actually called uterus didelphys, affects one in 1,000 women in the UK. In Miss Kersey's case, the babies were conceived from two eggs - one in each womb - which were fertilized at the same time by two different sperm.One egg then divided, producing identical twins, while the other developed into a single baby.

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