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1 in 50 Million Chance: US Woman With Rare Double Uterus Is Pregnant in Both (www.sciencealert.com)
submitted 11 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/science@beehaw.org
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[โ€“] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 14 points 11 months ago

Hope everyone will be healthy in the end.

[โ€“] jarfil@beehaw.org 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

1 in 50 million chance... world population of 8 billion... average yearly birth rate of 19 per 1000... that would make it 3 per year of these cases! I wouldn't've expected so many double-featured individuals being out there ๐Ÿ˜ฏ

[โ€“] seang96@spgrn.com 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Article also said last time it happened was in 2019. Surprised there hasn't been any for nearly 4 years.

[โ€“] jarfil@beehaw.org 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it also says there is a 0.3% of females thought to have the condition. The numbers don't seem to fit.

[โ€“] seang96@spgrn.com 2 points 11 months ago

Assuming 53% of population are females that is 12.7 million with the condition. Using your 19/1000 that's 241k babies a year under this subgroup. Maybe it is 1 in 50 million chance for those 241k babies a year? Still seems off though I did pull the 53% out of my butt but I vaguely remember there being a slightly higher % of females in the total population.

[โ€“] lenguen@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Best of luck to her. Would they want to try performing a typical delivery or a C-section? I would think the latter but I'm no expert.

[โ€“] LostXOR@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

From the article it seems like she wants to do a normal delivery, but a C-section might be necessary if there are complications.

[โ€“] XTornado@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

A normal delivery!!? She crazy... Like I understand on normal cases but this...

[โ€“] Drusas@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

That sounds...risky. I wonder how far apart they were conceived.

[โ€“] grooving@lemmy.studio 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I couldn't give 2 fucks

[โ€“] statist43@feddit.de 7 points 11 months ago

She can!

[โ€“] HumbleHobo@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

I can't be the only one who read that article and didn't cringe a bit at the end. The woman thinks she is going to get through best care possible and she lives in Alabama, where they are currently shutting down maternity units: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/in-alabama-three-maternity-units-will-stop-delivering-babies-heres-why-it-puts-women-at-risk/ar-AA1ifxW3