Pregnant at 66! Elizabeth Adeney, the oldest British woman to give birth.
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Pregnant at 66! Elizabeth Adeney, the oldest British woman to give birth.A Pregnant Woman with 2 Reproductive Systems?
I don't know what's really going on in this world. The last time I've posted about two amazing births (the black and white twins), I was like "WHAATT?". And now, another odd medical case has struck me again - a pregnant woman with 2 reproductive organs? Hell yeah!This is about Lindsay Hasaj, a sales worker from North London who has 2 uteruses, 2 cervixes, and 2 vaginas. This rare condition is said to occur to only 1 in a million women. Lindsay never knew that she has 2 reproductive systems until she got pregnant and been complaining about abdominal pains. After undergoing some medical tests, that's it! Doctors revealed that she has a rare condition called uterus didelphys. Though this odd condition is really rare, Lindsay is expected to have a healthy pregnancy, but she needs medical check-ups every now and then. The baby is due on July. Wow! Isn't this story amazing?
Read more about her story by clicking this..

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Sunday, January 25, 2009
Bizarre but True (A woman who gave birth to 69 children)

Believe it or not, a Russian woman holds the record for giving birth to 69 children. This is among the celebrated medical anomalies of multiple births. This is Mrs. Vassilet (1816-1872), the first wife of Fyodor Vassilet, a farmer from Shuya, Russia. She went through no less than 27 pregnancies, wherein she had twins 16 times, triplets 7 times, and 4 times quadruplets, which brings out a total of 69 children! Whooa!
The most amazing fact here is that, majority of the children lived up to their adult age, which was rare that time due to lack of medical know-how.
Mrs Vassilet’s fecundity made her so famous that she even met tsar Alexander II. So it looks like Mrs Duggar, with her 17 children, has a long way to go…:-)
special thankx to my co-blogger Mayan for the feed
The most amazing fact here is that, majority of the children lived up to their adult age, which was rare that time due to lack of medical know-how.
Mrs Vassilet’s fecundity made her so famous that she even met tsar Alexander II. So it looks like Mrs Duggar, with her 17 children, has a long way to go…:-)
special thankx to my co-blogger Mayan for the feed