New Delhi:
Medical marvels do happen to which doctors have no answer and one happened recently in Bangladesh when a woman gave birth to three kids, a boy first and then twins within 26 days, something extremely rare in medical history
According to a new portal, Arifa Sultana Iti had on February 25 gave premature birth to a baby boy. On March 22 she was again rushed to the hospital after she fell ill and then delivered a girl and a boy through caesarean section
Sheila Poddar, the chief of the hospital's gynaecology department who attended the woman, said she discovered in an ultrasonography test that Iti has two uteruses.
The first baby was born from one womb. The two babies born here are from the other womb," she said. Poddar said that the mother and the babies are doing well.
"It's a rare incident. I have seen such a case for the first time. I had not even heard about such an incident before," she was quoted as saying by the website.
The woman, who hails from Shyamlagachhi village in Sharsha in Jessore, gave birth to the first baby at Khulna Medical College Hospital.
Iti's case is one in 500 million. Last year a US woman delivered twin, one baby, from each of her rare heart-shaped uterus. Remarkably, she became pregnant with twins when one egg was released into each uterus and they were both successfully fertilized at the same time.
