WORLD / Europe
One woman, two wombs, three babies
(AFP)
Updated: 2006-12-22 14:35
LONDON - A British mother could get into the record books after she gave
birth to twins and a single baby at the same time -- from two wombs -- in
what is believed to be a world first.
The hand of a newborn baby. A British mother could get into the record
books after she gave birth to twins and a single baby at the same time --
from two wombs -- in what is believed to be a world first. [AFP]
Hannah Kersey, 23, gave birth to the rare triplets -- identical twins
Ruby and Tilly, and singleton Gracie -- by Caesarean section seven weeks
prematurely in September.
She was born with a condition called uterus didelphys, which means she
developed two wombs, but doctors had warned her that she was unlikely to
become pregnant in both.
After their early birth the triplets had to stay in hospital for nine
weeks, but are now doing fine at home with Hanna and her partner Mick
Faulkner, 23, in Devon in southwest England.
"We are just over the moon at how healthy and happy the girls are," she
said. "They are three lovely and incredible children, all with very
different personalities.
"Gracie seems to be the ringleader -- maybe because she grew up in her
own womb. She is very determined and independent, always wanting her food
before the others and to do things first," she said.
Doctors say there are only 70 women in the world known to have become
pregnant in two wombs, and this is the first reported case of triplets.
"This is so rare you cannot put odds on it," said Ellis Downes,
consultant obstetrician at Chase Farm Hospital in London. "I have never
heard of this happening anywhere ever before - it is quite amazing.
"Women with two wombs have conceived a baby in each womb before but never
twins in one and a singleton in the other. It is extremely unusual."
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