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A Chinese woman born with two uteruses reportedly gave birth to twins, one from each womb. The babies — a boy and a girl — were successfully delivered via C-section in early September at a hospital in Xi’an, Shaanxi province.
The woman, surnamed Li, was born with uterus didelphys, a rare condition in which a person develops two uteruses and cervixes, affecting only about 0.3% of the global population.
After suffering a miscarriage during her first pregnancy, Li was surprised to learn in January that she was not only pregnant with twins but also carrying one in each womb.
Commenting on the rarity of Li’s case, Cai Ying, a senior obstetrician at the hospital, said, “Compared to a normal pregnancy, the overall incidence of twin pregnancies in a uterus didelphys is about one in a million. Naturally conceiving twins in each chamber of a uterus didelphys is even rarer, with only a few cases reported both domest...
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