A woman gave birth to twins a month after having her first child

A Bangladeshi mother recently had the surprise of her life during childbirth to twins whose I did not know the existence, only 26 days after having her first child prematurely.

Arifa Sultana, 20, gave birth to a baby last month, but doctors did not realize that she a second uterus.

"I did not know that I was still pregnant with twins. He burst again waters 26 days later Sheila Poddar, the gynecologist who treated the woman, told AFP.

The doctors performed an emergency caesarean section to remove the twins, a baby, and a baby. The young woman from Jessor district (south-west Bangladesh) was able to return home with the babies. Everyone is in good health.

"In more than 30 years of medical career, I had never seen such a case"Dilip Roy, Jessore's medical officer, told AFP that he was wondering how hospital doctors could not realize of the second pregnancy.

Poor family, Arifa Sultana said that she was happy to have three children but wondered how she could raise them. Her husband, Sumon Biswas, works as a laborer and earns just 6,000 taka (63 euros) a month.

"I do not know how we are going to do it to face such a liability with so little money," he told AFP. I have however tried to give a good face to the question. "He was a miracle of God that all my children are well. I want to do my best to make them happy, "he said.