Two Uteri One Mom

Today, Nina Mandell, a writer of the NY Daily News, shared  fairly bizarre story with the world. Today, in Florida, a mother gave birth to a set of wins. Whatever, right? No! Do you really think I would be writing about something so ordinary? The mother gave birth to a pair of twins all right, but each child came from a separate uterus! The condition is called Uterus Didelphys, and it occurs in less than 0.5% of women in the U.S. As rare as the condition is, it is even rarer for the baby’s to survive the full term, let alone twins. In fact, in most cases each uterus will achieve pregnancy weeks apart from each other.

As amazing as this story is, the true reason I’m posting about it is because I had heard of this condition before hand, when I was watching Grey’s Anatomy. The episode was called “Let the Angels Commit” and I would really suggest watching it.

P.S. If you want to learn more about this fascinating  condition just click on the link for Uterus Didelphys. And if you want to read Andreea Barbosa’s story you can read the article “Florida Woman Gives Birth to a Set of Twins—From Two DifferentUteruses.”