Australian Madeline Kaklikos, 24, experienced a rare case of twins conceived in different weeks, one through in vitro fertilization and the other naturally.
Madeline and her husband, Jon, 27, started trying to have a child in 2020. After a year without success, they sought medical help and discovered that the young woman had a didelphic uterus, a congenital anomaly in which a woman has two uteruses and can having two cervix or just one for both.
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In most cases, uterus didelphys does not cause signs or symptoms, meaning that many women only discover the condition after performing gynecological imaging tests. Patients, however, tend to have greater difficulty getting pregnant, in addition to being at greater risk of miscarriage.
In vitro fertilization
After the diagnosis, Madeline and her husband decided to get pregnant through IVF. After ten attempts, the young woman finally succeeded, but the biggest surprise came at the ten-week ultrasound, when the couple heard a second heartbeat. “There were some disturbances while the sonographer was examining the baby, and I instantly panicked and wondered if something was wrong,” she recalled.
During the scan, Jon asked the doctor if he heard a second heartbeat in his wife’s womb, that’s when the sonographer revealed that there was another baby in the second womb. “My jaw dropped to the floor and the color drained from my husband’s face. I thought the doctor was joking with us,” he said.
The images showed that one of the babies was smaller than the other, leading doctors to suspect a spontaneous conception a week after IVF. “When I was pregnant with two babies, the doctors told me this was a one-in-50 million pregnancy, because Nate was in one womb and Cole was in the other, and they were also conceived in different ways and at different times,” the mother said. Caters News, from Australia.
Madeline Kaklikos – ultrasound
Ultrasound images show the size difference between the two babies at the same time of pregnancy
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Madelin holds the twins
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Jon and Madeline
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Beyond imagination
The couple had been advised to avoid sexual intercourse during the assisted reproduction period, but failed to comply with the recommendations. “This was our tenth round of IVF and we’ve spent two years trying to have a baby with no success, so we never imagined that this time it would result in a spontaneous pregnancy,” said Madeline.
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Nate and Cole, Madeline’s twins, were born on February 20th of this year. The siblings stayed in incubators for the first few days of their lives before being able to go home.
“While cradling my newborn twins for the first time, I had that feeling everyone talks about, a feeling I never thought I would experience after the hellish rounds of IVF and over two years of trying to have a baby, but there I was. , not just one, but two babies,” says the young Australian.
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