Woman learns she has two wombs when doctors tell her she’s carrying a twin in each – a one in 50million chance
PREGNANT Kelly Fairhurst learned she had two wombs when doctors told her she was carrying a twin in each.
The 28-year-old, who already has two daughters, also found out she had two cervixes — and might even have to go through two labours.
She said: “The twins could be identical. The condition itself is quite rare but they went on to tell me that it was a one in a 50million chance for me to conceive twins in each womb.”
Kelly and boyfriend Joshua Boundy, 34, were given the news at her 12-week scan.
She added: “With my second baby they said that I might have a bicornuate uterus, which means it’s not fully formed.
“So when I went for this scan, I was really surprised to learn that I have two of them!
“I just thought, ‘God, that’s a shock’. It makes you feel incredibly grateful that this has happened to you and you get to have two amazing babies.”
Kelly’s first child Agyness, four, was born eight weeks premature, while Margot, three, was six weeks early.
Doctors say their biggest concerns are the twins will be premature or that Kelly will go into two separate labours.
She said: “The plan is to have them both by c-section, but my last two births have been so quick there’s a risk that might not be possible.
“In all honesty, the whole thing is pretty crazy.”
Tesco worker Kelly, of Braintree, Essex, added: “We do have twins in our family and my Nana was a triplet but you never think that it’s going to happen to you.
"I especially never thought I’d have identical twins in two separate wombs!”
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Professor Asma Khalil, an expert in obstetrics at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, South London, told The Sun: “Uterus didelphys is a congenital abnormality where there is a double uterus with two separate cervices and possibly a double vagina as well.
“It is estimated to occur in one in 3,000 women. There are just a handful of recorded cases of women with uterus didelphys who gave birth to identical twins across the world — it is extremely rare.
“It can cause problems. In one case one twin was delivered at 25 weeks and the other carried on until late in pregnancy.”
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