today's anatomy lesson
According to BBC, one in 1,000 women in the UK (and why should it be different anywhere else?) have "uterus didelphys," or the condition of having two uteruses. As a result of this condition, a British woman recently had triplets, from two different wombs.
So, to hearken back to an earlier topic, if a woman with two uteruses has sex with two identical twins, and each impregnates her, it seems like she could accomplish the amazing feat of having identical twins come out of different wombs. Of course they wouldn't really be identical, just MK-and-Ashley-freaky-alike.
Enjoy this creepy illustration!
So, to hearken back to an earlier topic, if a woman with two uteruses has sex with two identical twins, and each impregnates her, it seems like she could accomplish the amazing feat of having identical twins come out of different wombs. Of course they wouldn't really be identical, just MK-and-Ashley-freaky-alike.
Enjoy this creepy illustration!
posted by JenIsFamous at 1/03/2007 03:26:00 PM
4 Comments:
The ratio could very easily be different in other parts of the world if there's a hereditary component to the condition. Hydatidiform mole (a form of non-viable pregnancy) is something like 12 times more common among Spaniards and Moroccans than it is among residents of the UK.
Originally, the BBC quoted an expert as saying that the odds of a similar triplet pregnancy in a double uterus were one in 25 million. The article then went on to say that it had never happened before. Um...if there are 2 million births in the UK every year, and something happens once in ever 25 million pregnancies, then this should happen about every eleven years in the UK alone. "One in a million" or "one in 25 million" does not mean "never".
Here's a wandering thought to ponder. A "very busy" woman with two uteruses could carry two unrelated pregancies. Children conceived within days of each other, with two unrelated men would be due close together. Nature or our lawsuit-shy medical society could cause them to actually be delivered on the same day.
Imagine explaining your family this way. Here are my children Sam and Susan. They're both five today, but they're not twins.
I thought Jennifer L.(Lynn)Dziura
and Jennifer L.(Leigh)Dziura could be amusingly confusing. From now on, I'll consider myself lucky. I don't know anyone with two uteruses and I have one less name to remember/forget in my old age.
For a variety of reasons, the odds of such a type of pregnancy do not correlate to the probability of such triplets all being born alive. Given the state of modern obstetrics today as compared to eleven years ago, the statistic is less surprising than one might otherwise assume. It may have happened before, but no one knew and because nature performed a "selective abortion" of one or more of the fetuses early on in the pregnancy, no one knew of this phenomnenon until it resulted in, if not actual live birth, late-term viability.
Nice, looks like the inside of a Infant Automat.
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