‘Astounding’: Alabama woman with two uteruses is pregnant in both wombs
‘Astounding’: Alabama woman with two uteruses is pregnant in both wombs
Kelsey Hatcher, a 32-year-old expecting baby girls, was not diagnosed with the rare anomaly uterus didelphys until last spring
Kelsey Hatcher, a 32-year-old mom of three was born with a rare uterine anomaly called uterus didelphys, or two uteruses. However, she was not diagnosed with the condition until last spring, when she discovered she was pregnant – in each uterus.
Hatcher said her husband almost didn’t believe her.
“He said: ‘You’re lying,’ I said: ‘No, I’m not,” Hatcher told NBC News.
Uterus didelphys affects about 0.3% of women. The abnormality forms in the female embryo very early in development, around eight weeks gestation, according to fertility researchers.
Uh, isn't that going to be a major complication for all parties involved? For pregnancy and delivery I mean.
her father and brother should be able to handle it...
They're the same person
Depends on how well formed the uteruses are. If they're both healthy, it should be fine. You would be amazed at the ways a person's body changes to accommodate pregnancies. Idk why this would be any more risky than, say, twins or triplets.
At the Science and Industry museum in Chicago they have/had step by step see-through models of a woman's guts before, during, and after pregnancy.
I took a date there and we had a great time. Arrived at that exhibit and we just stood there for a minute, witnessing how jumbled up the post pregnancy innards were.
I said, "I'll never do that to you."
She said, "Thank you."
Which side do you think is going to win?
Inside
Those poor babies... Being born to Alabamaians in Alabama.
For med school students who waste time here. A question.
These are not technically twins, right?
Not a med school student but fraternal twins come from 2 separate zygotes - 2 different eggs and 2 different sperm cells. If you disregard the whole 'two uteri' aspect they'd be twins, fraternal twins, dizygotic. It's all two eggs being fertilized at the same time, right?
It's all two eggs being fertilized at the same time, right?
According to the article, they didn't need to be but likely were. Makes sense, thanks.
Though would they end up being delivered at the same time?
Basically, they are only twins if they are born on the same day, because the concept of fraternal twins is basically being born from the same woman on the same day. Identical twins with the split egg after insemination are the only real "twins" biologically (except clones, generally illegal). There's also roman twins, but those are pretty rare, because it involves a woman releasing two eggs but having intercourse with two different men in a roughly 48 hour time period, resulting in half brother fraternal twins.
Two utes?
Twomb
Twoterus.
Oh Vinny. Thanks
Yeah. Two utes.
are you implying this woman is a 4x4?
Wombo combo
My ex has a bifurcated uterus. Uteruses can be weird.
My body tries to grow extra uteruses, but can only make the inside bits, and attaches those bits wherever it wants to.
Gotta love endometriosis.
Uteri*
uterus
noun
uter·us ˈyü-tə-rəs
ˈyü-trəs
plural uteri ˈyü-tə-ˌrī or uteruses
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uterus
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/uteruses
Why does it matter? The plural was clear so uteruses did the job
This is wild.
Womb womb
Five kids, great for the climate!
Bit good for the cult
Does this mean she has two vaginas? Will she give birth out of seperate vaginas to each baby?
I have a sneaking suspicion that if she had two vaginas she might have realised somewhere before child number 4.
Seeing as she's had 3 kids already, it'd be silly to think she would have 2 vaginas when she was only recently diagnosed as having 2 uterus.
A double pleasure was waiting for her. Maybe this caused the whole problem?