Mum with two wombs gives birth from each after suffering four miscarriages
A NEW mum has two reasons to smile – and they each came from one of her TWO wombs. Emily Taylor, 31, has uterus didelphys, meaning she has two wombs and two cervixes. The NHS admin assistant carried her son Richi in her right womb and Arlie in her left. Emily, who lives in Brecon, […]
A NEW mum has two reasons to smile – and they each came from one of her TWO wombs.
Emily Taylor, 31, has uterus didelphys, meaning she has two wombs and two cervixes.
The NHS admin assistant carried her son Richi in her right womb and Arlie in her left.
Emily, who lives in Brecon, Wales, said: “I kept having miscarriages and no-one could tell me why. So my two boys really are miracles.”
Emily first tried for a baby ten years ago aged 21 and got pregnant easily.
But at her 12-week scan, the nurses told her she had suffered a miscarriage.
Emily and her husband Richard Taylor, 31, who she met in 2013 and married two years later, had three miscarriages in a row between 2013 and 2015.
They lost each baby at around the six-week mark.
After Emily’s fourth miscarriage, the couple visited a gynaecologist, and Emily had an internal exam which revealed her two wombs.
Emily recalled the doctor said: “Oh this is different…”
“My husband was with me and he asked what was wrong. And he just said ‘you’ve got two cervixes’. He explained what it was and that they wanted to have a better look around,” she added.
Emily then had a laparoscopy – where a camera was inserted through a cut below her belly button – so doctors could get a closer look.
It was discovered she had two cervixes and two wombs – both slightly smaller than usual.
Known as uterus didelphys, it occurs during development in the womb, when the fusion of certain ducts fails to occur.
“I was gutted,” she said.
“I thought that was why I kept having miscarriages, I didn’t think I’d be able to have children.”
The couple even had a consultation for IVF in the hope that experts could somehow implant a baby in a better position than her own body could naturally.
But in May 2016, Emily and NHS maintenance assistant Richard found out they were expecting again – from Emily’s right womb.
Baby Richi – named after his dad – was born on January 11, 2017, weighing 6lbs 9oz.
He arrived slightly early at 37 weeks – most likely because he had run out of room to grow.
“I was scared. I was constantly worrying, the whole pregnancy I thought something would go wrong,” Emily said.
At Richi’s birth, Emily needed a C-section, so doctors simply cut her right womb and left the other one alone.
Terrified she wouldn’t be able to have more children, the pair began trying for their second as soon as baby Richi turned one.
Emily got pregnant on the second month of trying.
But this time, her 12-week scan revealed baby Arlie was in her left womb.
He was born on October 26 last year at 37 weeks weighing 6lbs 3oz, with Emily only using gas and air during her eight-hour labour at Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny.
She hasn’t ruled out more children and says she’d take bets over which womb they’d end up in.
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“We’re pretty chilled about it now,” she said.
“But when you think about it, it is amazing really.”
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