A woman gave birth to a baby and 26 days later she had twins

A woman in Bangladesh with two uteri gave birth to two healthy twins only 26 days after the premature birth of another baby., their doctors said Wednesday. Arifa Sultana, 20, gave birth to a child last month but doctors have not detected the presence of a second uterus.

"She did not realize that she was still pregnant with two twins. She broke the water again 26 days after the birth of the first baby and rushed to see us, "said Sheila Poddar, the gynecologist who treated the woman.

The doctor performed an emergency cesarean section for the twins, a boy and a girl, who were born healthy on Friday.

Wife Jessore District, southwest Bangladesh, He returned home Tuesday with his three healthy babies.

"I have never seen such a case in more than 30 years of career in medicine, "said Dilip Roy, Jessore's Medical Services Manager, and criticized the doctors at the Khulna Medical College Hospital for failing to detect the second pregnancy.

"She came to the hospital complaining of pain in her lower abdomen," Poddar said. The doctors had an ultrasound and realized that Sultana was pregnant with twins.

Sultana had two uteri, a state called didelphus uterus. Their first baby and twins were conceived and grew up in separate matrices.

He did not receive ultrasound before the first childbirthso nobody saw him, said Poddar.

"It is not very common to have two uteri. When the uterus grows, it comes from two tubes and these tubes are fused. In some women, fusion does not occur and the separation wall does not dissolve, "said Dr. SN Basu, chief of obstetrics and gynecology department at Max Healthcare Hospital in New Delhi .

Poddar was able to perform a Caesarean section quickly to give birth to twins: a boy and a girl. "The three children are safe and healthy," Poddar said. "The mother is doing so well."

The uterus of Didelphus is a rare conbad anomaly. gestation of twins has a general incidence rate of 1 in a million, according to the National Institutes of Health.

And that this condition is not discovered before birth is even less common.

"In rural areas, people do not know what's wrong with them. They do not know how many children are pregnant and sometimes they do not even know they're pregnant, "said Basu.

With information from AFP and CNN