A Bangladeshi woman gave birth normally and left the hospital, only to return and give birth to fraternal twins less than a month later.
the mom wasn't aware of her unique situation until she was forced to seek medical attention for lower abdominal pain and got an ultrasound.
This was possible because the woman was born with a second uterus.
Women born with two uteruses aren't unheard of. The formal name for the condition is called uterus didelphys. Estimates of how common it is are grainy, largely because many women experience no symptoms as a result of the condition. But it's probably very rare. One 2011 review, for instance, estimated that 0.3 percent of women in the general population had two uteruses.
The birth of the twins occurred 26 days after the delivery of her first baby.
Quirky as the woman's story is, it has troubling implications. The lack of an ultrasound that's standard practice in countries like the U.S. is indicative of the poor healthcare system in Bangladesh
Fortunately all three births were without issue.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Monday April 01 2019, @05:07AM (8 children)
The poor woman also didn't have access to a maternataxi, organic wholemeal lotus scented candles, and a dolphin midwife (yes, that's a real thing!). And yet they seem to have had no problems producing children for the last several hundred thousand years. Ultrasounds during pregnancy are nice, but most of the world has coped without them for millennia. There are far bigger things to worry about there than lack of access to ultrasounds... the Rohingya crisis springs immediately to mind.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @10:24AM (3 children)
Sure, but they die more often and they have to live with childbirth-related injuries that decrease their quality of life permanently because they don't have access to better care more often. Not that most first-world countries are particular good when it comes to childbirth, but they're certainly better than the alternatives.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @02:05PM (2 children)
i'm sort of surprised that in one of the most populous and growing areas of the world, someone has directed a concern about the lack of reproductive healthcare. if anything, birth control should be provided upon request.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Monday April 01 2019, @02:49PM (1 child)
OMG !!! - - that sounds like -- (gasp!) -- Socialism !!!
Heaven forbid that public taxpayer money could be used for . . . used for . . . for something like . . . that would benefit society and the lives of everyone as a whole over time!
It just cannot be allowed!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 02 2019, @04:37AM
Good point.
From the view of a child, what could be worse than having to come out of a momma who does not want you?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @01:23PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday April 01 2019, @04:49PM
Go to a graveyard from the 1800's. Look at the ages of the women buried there.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @02:27PM (1 child)
Maybe it is good to not have an ultrasound.
China did the sort of medical study that wouldn't get past ethics review here in the USA. They did ultrasounds or skipped them, then aborted the kids and dissected their brains. It turns out that the ultrasounds cause physical changes to the brain structure.
Technically, they didn't prove it to be bad. Maybe getting your brain rearranged by an ultrasound is good, hmmm? Reasonable people would guess otherwise. It is notable that the rise in autism coincides with the rise in ultrasounds.
Now THAT is something the medical industry doesn't want to hear.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 02 2019, @01:24AM
Of course they can't hear it, it's ultrasound =P
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