A Florida woman with a rare medical condition has delivered twins -- one from each of her two uteruses. The 24-year-old mother, Andreea Barbosa and her husband, Miguel, conceived the twins without reproductive medicine. Nathan and Natalie Barbosa were born Sept. 15 at Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater. They join 2-year-old sister, Izabella.
Barbosa's condition is called uterus didelphys. She says it was diagnosed four years ago. A double uterus can render women infertile, according to the website of the Mayo Clinic. But the babies were conceived without assisted reproduction.
Andreea developed a common pregnancy complication known as placenta previa and received ultrasound monitoring, but otherwise the pregnancy progressed uneventfully. St. John says Barbosa's pregnancy was perfect and the twins were born via C-section at 36 weeks.
Barbosa's obstetrician, Dr. Patricia St. John, placed the odds of such a pregnancy at 1 in about 5 million. The doctor explained that two eggs had to be released and fertilized at the same time in each uterus. In 2010, a Utah woman with the same condition became pregnant with two babies, each conceived at a different time.
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