A recent incident startled everyone when a British woman gave birth to triplets from two wombs.
In September, Hannah Kersey, 23, of Northam in Devon, had twin girls who were conceived in one womb and a third girl from another womb.
Ellis Downes, a consultant obstetrician and gynecologist at Chase Farm Hospital in London said,
‘This is so rare you cannot put odds on it. Women with two wombs have conceived a baby in each womb before but never twins in one and a singleton in the other.’
This occurs when the uterus fails to fuse during development and the condition is termed as uterus didelphys. It affects one in every 1000 women in the UK.
In her case, two sperms fertilized two different eggs at the same time and one of the eggs split for the identical twins and the other developed as a singleton.
She gave birth by emergency caesarean section seven weeks early to the twins, Ruby and Tilly, and Gracie.
Kersey reveals that she and her partner, Mick Faulkner, are ‘over the moon’ about how healthy and happy the girls are.
