Bangladeshi has hit headlines for giving birth to twins just 4 weeks after giving birth to first child.
The 20-year-old gave birth 26 days after giving birth to her first child
Arifa Sultana gave birth to a boy in late February, according to Dr. Sheila Poddar, a gynecologist at Ad-Din hospital in Dhaka. After a normal delivery, the mother and baby were released from a different Dhaka hospital.
Less than four weeks later, she was admitted to Ad-Din hospital.
“She came to the hospital complaining of lower abdominal pain,” Poddar said. Doctors performed an ultrasound and realized Sultana was pregnant with twins.
Sultana had two uteruses, a condition called uterus didelphys. Her first baby and the twins were conceived and grown in separate wombs.
“It is not very common to have two uteruses. When the uterus develops, it comes from two tubes, and those tubes fuse together
Uterus didelphys represents a uterine malformation where the uterus is present as a paired organ when the embryogenetic fusion of the Müllerian ducts fails to occur. As a result, there is a double uterus with two separate cervices, and rarely a double vagina as well
Poddar was able to quickly perform a C-section to deliver twins: a boy and a girl. “All three children are safe and healthy,” Poddar said.
This follows a story of Kakamega woman who gave birth to quintuplets at once.
She hit headlines after giving birth to five healthy babies and doing just fine.