KHULNA, BANGLADESH — A Bangladeshi woman gave birth to twin bundles of joy just a month after delivering her first child, thanks to a second womb she never knew she had.<br /><br />A doctor told the BBC that Arifa Sultana had given birth to a premature baby boy in late February. <br /><br />Just 26 days later, the 20-year-old complained of stomach pains and was rushed to the hospital, where doctors discovered that she was pregnant with twin babies in a second uterus.<br /><br />An emergency C-section was performed to get the twins — a boy and a girl — out. Luckily both were healthy, and left the hospital with mom after a four-day stay.<br /><br />The official name for having two uteruses is uterus didelphys, and it's apparently not that rare, at least according to one gynecologist in Singapore.<br /><br />He says it's likely that three eggs ovulated and were fertilized at the same time, which then resulted in three embryos.<br /><br />An ultrasound could've easily detected the double wombs and the babies in them, but Sultana was very poor, and never had one done.<br /><br />According to an AFP report cited by the BBC, the woman's husband earns about $95 a month as a laborer. But despite the financial burden of having three newborns, the couple are happy with what they say is a "miracle from Allah."
