Whoever said it's three times the charm hasn't met Lindsay Hasaj. The British woman said it only took two tries with husband Tony to get pregnant; even though she has two uteruses, two vaginas and two cervixes.
It's one of those one-in-a-million cases, but twenty-seven-year-old Hasaj was as surprised as doctors were when she went for her OB/GYN appointment at five weeks pregnant and was diagnosed with uterus didelphys. The condition drops a woman's chances of getting pregnant by fifty percent, but the Hasajs had double the luck.
Married in July, the Hasajs started trying shortly after to conceive their first child. But when Lindsay started feeling pains in her belly in November, she went to the hospital, afraid she might have an ectopic pregnancy. But even after doctors told her the baby had not developed outside the womb, they told her they needed to do more tests.
"I was in a cold sweat," Lindsay Hasaj told London's The Daily Mail. "I thought they were going to
say I'd had a phantom pregnancy or something. Ten minutes later I was
told very matter-of-factly that they could see two wombs and two
cervixes."
Because the outer part of her vagina (the entrance) appears normal, only splitting into two inside the body, Hasaj had made it to the ripe old age of twenty-seven without knowing she had a rare condition. She said her pap smears had always provided strange results, but apparently she never got a really invasive internal exam (now that she's pregnant, however, she joins the rest of us on that one).
She'll have to have frequent visits with the doctor - even more frequent than the average pregnant woman - because the two uteruses are weaker than one. The baby, however, is currently fine, living inside just one uterus and developing normally. As for lucky number two, the docs say it likely isn't to be for the Hasajs - but they're happy to make do with just one.
"I'm just happy that I've been given the chance to be a mum at least once."
As a mom who's one and done, I'll second that.
Image: Daily Mail
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