Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Alabama mother with rare double womb gives birth to two babies in two
days
Identical twins are formed when one fertilized egg splits and develops
two babies with exactly the same genetic information. They are the same sex and
look identical. Fraternal twins result from the fertilization of two separate
eggs with two different sperm during the same pregnancy. They share half their
genomes, just like any other siblings and could be of different sex or
appearance. In both cases, babies are developed in the uterus, the organ of a
woman in which a baby develops. However, 0.3% of women have two uteri, or wombs,
and very rarely, such women become pregnant in both of the uteri, like developing
two babies in two different compartments at the same time. This is what
happened to a 32-year-old woman in Alabama, USA, who delivered twins from the two
uteri over a 20-hour labor last December. The first baby girl was born
vaginally and the second girl was taken out by a Cesarean section about 10
hours later. Having two wombs, developing two babies at the same time, and
delivering them in one day. Now she has to raise her two children for years. What
a miracle mother!
Enjoy reading the article and learning about a mother with double
wombs.
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