 News
22nd December 2006
Woman with two wombs has triplets
A UK woman with two wombs is believed to be the first in the world to
give birth to triplets.
Hannah Kersey beat odds of 25 million to one to give birth
to identical twin girls from one womb, and a single girl from the other.
The triplets, who were delivered seven weeks early by caesarean,
have now gone home after spending nine weeks in special care.
Having two wombs is medically known as called uterus didelphys,
and affects one in 1,000 women in the UK and pregnancies in both wombs
are only known to have occurred 70 times throughout the world.
Hannah's triplets were conceived from two eggs, one in each
womb, and one of which split into identical twins.
Both Hannah and her partner Mick Faulkner are over the moon
that the girls are healthy.
Dr Simon Grant, a consultant at Southmead Hospital who
delivered the babies, said "There are very few world firsts nowadays,
but it may be one."
Mr Ellis Downes, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist
at Chase Farm Hospital in London, said, "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."
Leading expert Mr Peter Bowen-Simpkins added, "For a woman
to spontaneously conceive and give birth in this way is a real rarity.
They have been extremely fortunate."
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