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Woman with Two Wombs Gives Birth to Twins
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| Thu May 8, 9:18 AM ET
| Reuters
Posted on 05/08/2003 7:32:36 PM PDT by yonif
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - A Brazilian (news - web sites) woman gave birth on Wednesday to healthy twins, a boy and a girl, each from an individual womb, and doctors said it was the first such case in Latin America's largest country.
Ivan Lima, director of Meridional Hospital in the town of Cariacica in the coastal southeastern state of Espirito Santo said a caesarean section had been necessary after 36 weeks of pregnancy, but the two-wombed mother and the twins were fine.
'The twins are perfectly normal and we have excellent prognosis for their development,' he told Reuters by telephone. 'No cases of twins being born from two separate uteri have been described in the Brazilian medical literature.'
It is extremely rare that fetuses develop normally and symmetrically in two separate wombs, doctors said. The mother, a farm worker, was recovering normally.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brazil; woman; wombs; wombwithaview
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posted on
05/08/2003 7:32:36 PM PDT
by
yonif
To: yonif
I know a women with this same condition. She didn't have twins though.
Pretty weird if you think about it.
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posted on
05/08/2003 7:35:23 PM PDT
by
JZoback
(Don't have such an open mind, your brain falls out)
To: yonif
Sounds like Elmer Fudd describing his apartment:
Two wombs, wiver view.
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Two wombs it may concern...
To: yonif
And in other news, cow with 4 stomaches passes gas.
5
posted on
05/08/2003 7:42:17 PM PDT
by
Porterville
(Screw the grammar, full posting ahead.)
To: JZoback
I think that she would have to have sex twice.
6
posted on
05/08/2003 7:42:42 PM PDT
by
montomike
To: montomike
Errr, I think that the closest analogy would be a shotgun with no choke - you can hit two targets at once if you have enough shot in your cartridge, and if your pattern spreads wide enough. Ahem.
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posted on
05/08/2003 8:00:15 PM PDT
by
dandelion
To: yonif
So the twins are wombmates?
To: yonif
Well....at least she's efficient.
To: yonif
This publication should pick up the sotry soon . . . .
10
posted on
05/08/2003 8:07:13 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(Socialism is slavery.)
To: CheneyChick
LOL
11
posted on
05/08/2003 8:09:50 PM PDT
by
yonif
To: CheneyChick
The are obviously dizygotic twins. The mother must have ovulated two (or more) eggs, at least one from each of the ovaries, assuming each womb was paired with its own uterus.
To: yonif
Private wombs...kind of uppity, if you ask me.
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posted on
05/08/2003 8:11:08 PM PDT
by
Consort
To: yonif
Just last week our local radio interviewed a rural Kansas nurse who recently published a memoir which included an account of assisting in the delivery of a woman's two children two months apart. Yes, another biuterine.
To: yonif
How can she have given birth via two uteruses with one birth canal?
Or did she have two?
Enquiring minds want to know.
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posted on
05/08/2003 8:16:05 PM PDT
by
Malsua
To: capitan_refugio
Whoa - does this mean she gets "cranky" twice a month?
To: CheneyChick; Dave in Eugene of all places
Hey, Dave. I guess that makes us wombmates.
To: capitan_refugio
Whoa - does this mean she gets "cranky" twice a month?
To: capitan_refugio
Whoa - does this mean she gets "cranky" twice a month?
To: CheneyChick; Dave in Eugene of all places
Hey, Dave. I guess that makes us wombmates.
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