I Have Two Wombs And Pregnant With One Baby In Each – A One In A 50Million Chance

This is my story of discovering I have two wombs and two cervix’s and it’s called Uterus didelphys.

We’re parents to two beautiful girls, Agyness who is 5-years-old and Margot who is 3-years-old, and now we’re due twins in November 2020!

When we first met back in 2012, Joshua and I were going through some very tough personal issues but we’ve always said this is what brought us closer so quickly. We had only been together for about 6 months and we were babysitting my newborn nephew. This is probably when we first had the conversation about having our own family.

We both said we wanted a big family and weirdly enough 4 children was always our aim! Little did we know that 7 years later our thoughts and conversations would manifest.

After moving to London from Essex for work, we decided, without really deciding, to start our family. We went for our 12-week scan at Homerton hospital in Hackney, all was well, both baby and I were healthy and everything was perceived as ‘normal’. The 20-week scan came around and we found out we were having a little girl, we were both over the moon!

We were having a very normal pregnancy, some would say ‘plain sailing’. Then on the 3rd of September 2015 at 32 weeks whilst working at London zoo, I had a heavy bleed. This was obviously very unnerving and distressing, especially in my first pregnancy. I contacted Joshua to let him know and told him I was going to the hospital to see the midwife. Joshua as always was very calm and tried to reassure me that it probably wasn’t anything to be too concerned about.

When I got to Homerton and saw the nurse, she examined me and told me my mucus plug had gone which meant I was going into labour. They were going to give me steroids to slow everything down but within a few hours, we were given a bed and told to stay in.

Joshua had left work, rushed to get my hospital bag which I had dreamt about a few nights before so had it all ready, and then he joined me in the ward. Within a few more hours I was 5cm dilated and had been rushed to the labor ward.

Agyness was breached so the doctors did say that they would prepare me for a c-section. I started to get really heavy contractions and the midwife was encouraging me to deliver naturally. After being rushed into surgery I delivered Agyness naturally at 01:10 on 4th September 2015. We spent 3 weeks in NICU and then we were home. We obviously had questions as to why she was born at 32 weeks but we were just told, ‘there is no reason, it’s just one of them things‘.

Fast forward year, we’re back in Essex and I was pregnant again. I was 9 weeks pregnant, Joshua was working away, and I had a heavy bleed. I feared the worst and was alone with a 1-year-old to look after. I booked an appointment with my GP in the morning and to my horror, she said I had miscarried! However, I insisted on having a scan and had one arranged.

Almost in disbelief, I had the scan and was told that baby was fine, strong heartbeat, and measuring well for nearly 10 weeks. However, the sonographer then said ‘did you know you have a bicornuate uterus‘? I didn’t have a clue what she was talking about but after she explained, it all started to make sense, as, to why Agyness was early.

Women with a bicornuate uterus have high-risk pregnancies, prone to miscarriage and premature labor’s and often struggle to even conceive. With all this new information running around our minds, we counted our lucky stars that we had a healthy daughter and another baby on the way God willing. After that day we knew the potential risks and that we would be expecting another premature baby.

Then on the 27th of May 2017, Margot was born at 34 weeks. After 2 weeks in NICU, we were allowed home but by this point, we felt like seasoned professionals of tiny premature babies. The doctors we were going to mentioned arranging a scan on me once I had recovered to determine the bicornuate uterus but nothing was ever arranged.

Now it’s March 2020 and we find out I’m pregnant again, we go into lockdown due to COVID-19 and I have my 12-week scan on the 11th of May. Joshua isn’t allowed in with me so I’m going to have to do this one alone. Joshua is sitting in the car park constantly messaging me to get updates and also why it was taking so long.

After nearly 2 and a half hours I walk to the car with a big grin on my face. I’m rubbish at lying and keeping secrets but I did pretty well with this one. Joshua asked how it went and I said good and handed him the first scan photo. He looked at it with loving eyes and I handed him the second scan photo. Again he studies it and I wait patiently for his reaction, then it clicks and he saw Twin1 and Twin2 on the pictures. He then told me to F#*k off and begin laughing uncontrollably (almost in Joaquin Phoenix as The Joker type way).

We were both so shocked that even now at nearly 28 weeks it hasn’t still quite sunk in. I then went on to explain that they discovered I had 2 wombs and 2 cervix’s with a baby in each womb. The midwife explained that she hadn’t seen this in over 25 years of her career and said we would be referred to a specialist in London at UCLH.

We then did some research and discovered that Uterus didelphys is a birth defect that occurs in 1/3000 women and the chances of conceiving twins with one in each womb are 1/50million. The figures do vary and they are only estimated but nonetheless we realized we had a pretty rare pregnancy.

To help us cope with the enormity of our situation and to reach out to other family’s with the same or similar situations we started our Instagram account @wombfor2. We are approaching 28 weeks which is a significant milestone explained by our doctor. We’re nearing a fuller term pregnancy which will be much better for the babies and our doctor is very happy with their growth and constant activity at our biweekly checkups. But now the countdown is on and the anxiety is starting to kick in, hopefully they’ll stay put for another month or so!

Follow Kelly and her growing family on Instagram @wombfor2.