Woman with Two Wombs Gives Birth to Twins

Yahoo! News ^ | Thu May 8, 9:18 AM ET | Reuters

[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.

[CheneyChick]

oooops - sorry - FR has hiccups or something.

[unspun]

I'd like to reserve adjoining wombs, please....

But wow, such synchronicity! (Shucks, I hope there was only one father.)

[unspun]

Looks like three times, to me!

[shiva]

Whoa - does this mean she gets "cranky" twice a month?

I don't think so, but hubby has twice the fun.....Double your pleasure, double your fun.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

LOL

[sweetliberty]

"How can she have given birth via two uteruses with one birth canal? "

May have something to do with why she had to have a C-section.

[shempy]

If her husband has three testicles they have a full house.

[sauropod]

So are they fraternal or identical twins?

[sauropod]

I could make a comment here about the number of bf's KLT has had recently, but i won't...

[Rocky]

Duo utero gemini, mirabile dictu.

[LiteKeeper]

Gives new meaning to the phrase "separate but equal" accommodations!

[Delphinium]

My daughter in-law found out that she has this condition after have 3 sons. She had an ultrasound that showed a 3 month fetus in one womb, and a 6 week fetus in the other. She miscarried both. This last year she became pregnant again with a baby in both wombs. One baby miscarried, and the other was born healthy in December. Two of the boys are left handed , and I wonder if they might have been twins too?

[potlatch]

I wonder if they are really considered TWINS? Also, they wouldn't have to have been born the same day, being in two wombs!??

[ImaGraftedBranch]

My family is going to wonder why I am laughing hysterically in my office after midnight....LOL!

[honeygrl]

Same as anyone having twins I would guess.. one at a time..

[capitan_refugio]

I just answer once for the triplicate post!

I'm not an expert on female biochemistry, but my wife and I have a set of dizygotic (fraternal) twins. When I women ovulates more than one egg, it is usually, but not always from the same ovary. Sometimes, the ovaries ovulate almost simultaneously. Since there is only one, normal cycle, I don't think you get pms twice.

[garden variety]

When my twin brother and I were babies, people would ask our mother how she was able to tell us apart. She would tell them it was easy. One is a boy and one is a girl.

[sauropod]

You're cheating!

PS. I REFUSE to lift my skirt!

[F16Fighter]

I'll see your two uteri and raise you one uterus...

[HiTech RedNeck]

One of them wouldn't wait?