The chances of something like this happening are very low, however it has happened in the country where everything seems possible. An American woman gave birth to two babies a few days ago, each from a different uterus.
To speak in property, rather than say that this woman has two wombs, we should say that she has what is known as bicorne uterus, a congenital malformation of the uterus that can have different degrees of malformation, from a simple bicorne uterus, which is a uterus with an intermediate septum (a kind of spine) whose size can be more or less large, to divide the uterus completely reaching to have two wombs, one on each side.
The surprising thing is that Andrea Barbosa, 24, who is the main character of this news, will get pregnant naturally in both wombs.
Let's say that for this to happen, simultaneous ovulation must occur in both ovaries, which is already rare, and that both ovules are fertilized at the same time, implanting each in one of the uterus.
The pregnancy did not present any complications and the babies were born by caesarean section, something quite logical if we take into account that it is not the same to have a uterus with unique contractions, than two uteruses that flow into a single vagina.
The mother, when asked, commented that "I was impressed to learn that I had a baby in each uterus". The babies were born last Thursday at a Clearwater hospital in the state of Florida and one of the doctors who attended the birth commented that the statistical probability of a birth of two babies from two wombs is one in five million pregnancies.
The truth is that this case touches me very closely, because Miriam, my wife, also has a bicorne uterus. We do not know the degree of malformation that it has, although as we have seen echographically it seems that the separation is not complete. Someday of these I will try to talk about this condition, to provide more information.
