A woman from northern Michigan has given birth to twin daughters seven weeks premature Thursday by Caesarean section at Marquette General Hospital in the Upper Peninsula. Nothing spectacular until now. What was surprising to the doctors was the fact that the babies were delivered from two uterus, each with its own fallopian tube.

 

Sarah Reinfelder, 21, suffers from uterus didelphys, in which the womb develops in two parts. The condition affects about one in 3,000 women, although many are unaware they have it.

 

The babies, Kaylin Joy and Valeries Marie, were delivered seven weeks premature, the first weighing 3 pounds, 15 ounces, the second, 4 pounds, 15 ounces. They are healthy and doing perfectly well, although they will remain hospitalized for up to a month, as they have not fully developed the use of their lungs yet.

 

Reinfelder and her husband Shane and 10-month-old son William, are originally from Sault Ste Marie. They have been living in Marquette for about two months to be close to the hospital. Soon after the birth of her son, she was pregnant again – this time with twins.

 

“They told me your birth control isn’t working, guess what, you’re pregnant. I was like okay. And then they did the ultrasound and said guess what you’re pregnant twice! And that’s when I almost wet my pants,” Reinfelder said.

 

A similar case registered in the United Kingdom in 2006. A woman with a double uterus gave birth to triplets, a pair of identical twins from an egg that had implanted in one womb and then divided, and an infant from a single egg that implanted into the other womb.