‘One in a million’: Woman pregnant in 2 uteruses gives birth to twins

In what aesculapian professionals person called a “one successful a million” occurrence, a Chinese female pinch two uteruses successfully gave commencement to twins aft becoming pregnant successful some wombs.

Officials from a infirmary successful northwestern China announced nan stunning commencement connected nan Chinese societal media level Weibo. They said nan mother, identified only by her surname Li, gave commencement to a boy and a woman astatine Xi’an People’s Hospital successful Shaanxi state successful September.

The twins, who were reportedly conceived naturally, were calved via caesarean section.

Li herself was calved pinch a uncommon congenital abnormality called uterus didelphys, meaning her uterus is divided into 2 narrower cavities, each pinch its ain fallopian conduit and ovary. She besides has 2 cervixes.

According to nan Cleveland Clinic, nan information affects only 0.3 per cent of nan population.

Xi’an People’s Hospital said it is already “extremely rare” for twins to beryllium conceived successful 2 uteruses — and moreover rarer for them to carried to term. The infirmary shared an ultrasound photograph of nan twins, successful which some fetuses tin beryllium seen gestating successful separate, side-by-side wombs.

Li reportedly gave commencement erstwhile she was eight-and-a-half months pregnant.

The boy was calved weighing 7 pounds, 19 ounces. His copy sister was calved smaller, astatine 5 pounds, 5 ounces. Li had earlier miscarried different pregnancy, nan infirmary wrote.

Though incredibly rare, Li is not nan only female pinch 2 uteruses to successfully springiness commencement to twins.

In 2023, an American female from Alabama who was besides diagnosed pinch uterus didelphys gave commencement to copy daughters from abstracted wombs. One of nan babies was calved vaginally, while nan different was delivered via c-section.

Uterus didelphys is simply a information caused by a fetus’ nonaccomplishment to subordinate together 2 ducts to create 1 uterus during development. The information tin impact a woman’s gestation and summation nan consequence of miscarriage and preterm birth.