Double Jeopardy
Woman with duplicate wombs successfully birthed fraternal twins from both wombs, simultaneously.
Having each developed from a separate egg, the twins are genetically only as similar as any other brother and sister. About one in a thousand women are said to possess double wombs, but few ever bring simultaneous pregnancies in both to full term. Some women with two wombs also have two cervixes and two vaginas.
And one of the links on the left had this story about a young boy who finally gave “birth” to his dead, conjoined twin.
A seven-year-old boy who was admitted to hospital with stomach pains was actually “pregnant” with his twin brother. Doctors at Chimkent Children’s Hospital in Kazakhstan originally believed Mourat Zhanaidarov was suffering from a cyst. But during surgery, they discovered he was in fact carrying the dead foetus of his twin brother. The foetus had developed into a tumour but was found to have hair, nails and bones.