A woman had the surprise of a lifetime when she found out that she was carrying twins, a month after she already gave birth to another baby. A Bangladesh woman, whose name is Arifa Sultana Iti, ended up with three newborn babies when she was expecting to take home only one.
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The woman from Bangladesh, who was born with two wombs, gave birth to twins just 26 days after her first baby. She ended up going to the hospital because she was suffering some abdominal pains, only to find out she was about to welcome a pair of twins. Her condition is so rare that it has been deemed as having a one-in-a-million chance of it happening.
She gave birth to the first child in February.
The couple are from the Shyamlagachhi village in Sharsha and her husband, Sumon Biswas, spoke to bdnews24.com about his wife's situation and the birth of their babies. The mom gave birth to their first baby, a boy, at Khulna Medical College Hospital in Khulna in Bangladesh on February 25 of last year. The first baby is said to be doing well after he was cared for and looked after by doctors after his arrival, since it was a premature birth. The mother was later taken to the Ad-Dwin Hospital in Jashore on March 22 when she felt sick, 26 days after giving birth to her boy.
The woman didn't get an ultrasound before the first delivery.
A gynecologist at Ad-Din hospital in Dhaka, Dr. Sheila Poddar, told CNN that after a normal delivery, the mother and baby were released from a different Dhaka hospital. She returned and was admitted to Ad-Din hospital less than four weeks later after her first delivery. The twins were missed because the 20-year-old didn't get an ultrasound during the pregnancy or prior to the first delivery.
The doctor says the rare incident was due to her two uteruses.
"She came to the hospital complaining of lower abdominal pain," the doctor said. Due to the pain in her stomach, doctors then performed an ultrasound and realized the woman was pregnant with twins. She was then diagnosed with a condition known as uterus didelphys, which means she had two separate uteruses. It was then determined that the first baby and the twins were conceived and grown in separate wombs. Dr. Poddar performed a C-section to deliver the twins, which were a boy and a girl. "All three children are safe and healthy," the doctor said. "The mother is also fine."
The mom's condition is so rare.
Dr. Poddar, who is the chief of the hospital’s gynaecology department, told bdnews24.com how rare this case is. She discovered that Arifa had two uteruses after she ran an ultrasonography test, and that's when she went ahead with the caesarean section. “The first baby was born from one womb. The two babies born here are from the other womb,” she said. “It’s a rare incident. I have seen such a case for the first time. I hadn’t even heard about such incident before." The mother's case and her condition are so unique. Uterus didelphys is a rare congenital abnormality, and the National Institutes of Health says that having a twin gestation with this condition has one-in-a-million chance of happening. A true miracle! The mom and her three babies are said to be doing well.
