A 24-year-old woman who was born with two uteruses was shocked to learn that she got pregnant in both at the same time.
Meghan Phipps was born with a rare condition called uterine didelphys in which a woman has two uteruses.
But her pregnancy couldn’t go smoothly and she went into labor at only 22 weeks.
According to Scientific American, only 1 in 2,000 women have uterine didelphys and the odds of being pregnant in both wombs at the same time is 1 in 50 million.
Sadly, one of Phipp’s babies died but her other child named Reece becomes the youngest baby born at Bryan Health to survive.
The mother already had two children before and both had been conceived in her right uterus. Because of that, she believed that her left uterus was inactive.
But a doctor gave her the surprising news that she was pregnant with two babies.
When Phipps was 22 pregnant, she was rushed to a hospital due to ‘excruciating pain’ and she soon went into early labor.
A doctor said the chances were not promising for her babies especially because of her pregnancy’s circumstances.
“He had said that the girls would have a 1% chance,” she shared.
Phipps first gave birth to her daughter Riley. Reece was then born the following day.
Sadly, Riley passed away twelve days later.
“I put her ashes in her new urn, and ever since then she stayed with me and Reece up in the NICU until the day that Reece got to come home with us,” Phipps said.
Even though Reece needed plenty of medical intervention, she continued to beat the odds. She became the youngest baby born at that hospital to survive.
“She is a true miracle,” said Kallie Gertsch, a nurse who cared for Reese. “(She’s) definitely the biggest success that I have witnessed.”
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