A woman born with two wombs and two vaginas was told she had a 90% chance of miscarrying – but defied the odds and became a mother.
Eleanor Rowe, 36, discovered she had a rare congenital abnormality that only one in a million women have by accident in 2013. When she found herself single in her early 30s, she decided to freeze her eggs, heading to a London clinic for two harvesting cycles.
However, when the sonographer mistakenly thought she had come in for IVF treatment, a 3D scan of her womb was carried out and showed an abnormality which led staff to believe she may have two wombs. After she was referred to Princess Alexandra Hospital, an investigative operation revealed she also had two cervix and two vaginas.
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The condition, known as uterus didelphys, is a rare congenital abnormality that developed when she was a fetus. She said: ‘When I was first told about it I was just really confused. I thought how could I have gone through life and not know? Eleanor and Chris were unsure if they would have children.
‘When I would go for smear tests, nothing was picked up. It was just by chance that it was picked up. In 2015, doctors removed the wall that divided the vaginas – leaving her with two wombs – but said she would be unlikely to carry children. Eleanor said: ‘They said getting a baby to full termination would be a process and that every time I would get pregnant it would help to stretch out the womb. ‘I was also told that there was a 90 per cent chance I would miscarry. That was horrific to hear.’
