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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @12:29PM (3 children)
Oh and one other fucking thing you ignoramus. Maybe you need to read up on biology being messy. You think humans are manufactured somewhere in a 6 sigma process? No! You get all kinds of things going wrong. You get people with XX karyotype who have dicks. You get people with XY karyotype, dicks, and uterine tissue that isn't connected to anything! Testicles and ovaries in the same person!
Maybe you're a feminist, and that explains why you're a dipshit. Do you get violent and angry when your ridiculously egotistical expectations about gendered biology don't work out? You might be a feminist. Do you have the urge to apply essentialist legality and then perform unnecessary surgeries and engage in child abuse in order to make the world conform to your stupid preconceptions? You're probably a feminist.
(Score: 3, Touché) by DannyB on Monday April 01 2019, @03:26PM
No. (puts fingers in ears) La, la, la . . . la, la! I can't hear you. Pretending that such uncomfortable things just don't exist. If I ignore it maybe it will go away and not really be true. That way I can keep my nice neat stereotypes and pigeon holes. If that doesn't work, then it is possible to treat such persons as if they are somehow immoral or are somehow responsible for their condition. That's how Jesus would want us to
treathate them.To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 2) by J_Darnley on Monday April 01 2019, @05:40PM
WTF. This is weirdly aggressive, not that I care much about tone I wasn't at all PC when calling Bangladesh a shithole but somehow some vague implication that trannies are defective, which I didn't even think I made, and you get this triggered. I will have to try again. I don't think I said having 2 uteruses was good or bad. I expressed some disbelief about the quoted rate. I commented that women get lots of ultrasounds the condition doesn't appear to be discovered. Was it because I used "defect"? Is it not a defect?
I am pro-abortion, pro-eugenics, anti-feminist, anti-tranny. You want to know where I stand on anything else?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 02 2019, @01:29AM
...you are aware that the one group of feminists who does the things you're describing, the TERFs, are considered somewhere between loony and dangerous by the rest of us, no? TERFs are to feminism what Westboro Baptist Church is to mainline Protestant theology, in several ways.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...