daBaroness
02-09-2005, 11:04 AM
This is one of the stranger pregnancy/childbirthing stories I've run across ...
IASI, Romania - A 33-year-old Romanian woman who gave birth to a son in December on Monday gave birth to his twin brother almost two months later in what has been called a medical first in Romania. The mother, Maricica Tescu, has two uteruses due to a rare congenital malformation, said Mircea Onofriescu, a doctor who manages the Cuza Voda Maternity Hospital in the northeast city of Iasi. TWO UTERUSES?! I have trouble with ONE!)
Tescu gave birth Monday to a 5.7 pound baby boy by Caesarean section, 59 days after giving birth vaginally to the first child, a 3.5 pound boy. The two babies and the mother are doing well, Onofriescu said. The first baby now weighs the same as his brother, and the two will be released from the hospital at the same time, after about a week. Tescu, a landscape gardener, also has an 11-year-old son.
"I'm happy everything turned out well," she told news agency Mediafax.
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Now some years ago I did work with a gal whose Aunt gave birth to triples, but they weren't the same age. How you ask? Well apparently she got pregnant with a single baby, but her body didn't "know" it was pregnant and she had another menstral cycle where she got pregnant again - this time with twins. Fortunately, she didn't go into labor until the first baby was full term - but she delivered all three babies (obviously) at the same time. So the one baby was full term, the twins were two months premature. The first baby ended up being the one who got most of the nourishment - and she's always been considerably bigger than her twin/triplet sisters.
Anyone else have weird pregnancy stories?
IASI, Romania - A 33-year-old Romanian woman who gave birth to a son in December on Monday gave birth to his twin brother almost two months later in what has been called a medical first in Romania. The mother, Maricica Tescu, has two uteruses due to a rare congenital malformation, said Mircea Onofriescu, a doctor who manages the Cuza Voda Maternity Hospital in the northeast city of Iasi. TWO UTERUSES?! I have trouble with ONE!)
Tescu gave birth Monday to a 5.7 pound baby boy by Caesarean section, 59 days after giving birth vaginally to the first child, a 3.5 pound boy. The two babies and the mother are doing well, Onofriescu said. The first baby now weighs the same as his brother, and the two will be released from the hospital at the same time, after about a week. Tescu, a landscape gardener, also has an 11-year-old son.
"I'm happy everything turned out well," she told news agency Mediafax.
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Now some years ago I did work with a gal whose Aunt gave birth to triples, but they weren't the same age. How you ask? Well apparently she got pregnant with a single baby, but her body didn't "know" it was pregnant and she had another menstral cycle where she got pregnant again - this time with twins. Fortunately, she didn't go into labor until the first baby was full term - but she delivered all three babies (obviously) at the same time. So the one baby was full term, the twins were two months premature. The first baby ended up being the one who got most of the nourishment - and she's always been considerably bigger than her twin/triplet sisters.
Anyone else have weird pregnancy stories?