Emily Taylor has two children – Richi and Arlie and although she gave birth to each of them, they grew in different wombs.
The NHS admin assistant has uterus didelphys, meaning she has two wombs and two cervixes.
Richi, now two, developed in the right one and Arlie, now one, grew in the left.
The boys came after Emily heartbreakingly lost four babies to miscarriage – and Emily’s condition was only discovered after she saw a doctor to find out why she hadn’t been able to carry any of the babies to full term.
Emily, of Brecon, Wales, said: ‘I kept having miscarriages and no-one could tell me why. So my two boys really are miracles.’
Emily first tried for a baby ten years ago aged 21 and got pregnant easily. But at her 12 week scan, the nurses told her the baby had died.
Later, Emily met her now-husband Richard Taylor, 31, on a night out in 2013.
They married two years later and started trying for a family but sadly, they had three miscarriages, each one around the six-week mark, between 2013 and 2015,
‘I had a fourth miscarriage and then I went to see a gynaecologist,’ Emily explained.
‘There was no explanation given for my losses. They never found out at any scans.
‘I thought something was off. I thought ‘Why is this happening?’ I got referred to a gynaecologist because by that point I’d had four miscarriages in a row and lost all of them before 12 weeks.’
Emily had an internal exam and the doc was shocked by what he saw.
‘He was like “Oh this is different” I was like “What’s going on?”
‘My husband was with me and he asked what was wrong. And he just said “You’ve got two cervices”. He explained what it was and that they wanted to have a better look around.’
Emily then had a laparoscopy – where a camera was inserted below her belly button – so doctors could get a closer look.
That showed she had uterus didelphys, which meant she had two cervix and two wombs, as they had not formed properly when she was developing in the womb.
They were both slightly smaller than usual – but it was not thought the condition would harm her chances of becoming a mum.
Emily was devastated though and was convinced the condition was causing her recurrent miscarriages.
‘I was gutted,’ she said.
‘I thought that was why I kept having miscarriages, I didnt think Id be able to have children, even though he said keep trying. I thought ‘It’s not going to work.’
The couple even had a consultation for IVF in the hope that experts could somehow implant the baby in a better position than her own body could naturally.
But in May 2016, Emily and NHS maintenance assistant Richard found out they were expecting again.
A 12-week scan showed the baby was happily growing in Emily’s right womb and he continued to grow until 37 weeks, when he had run out of room to grow.
Baby Richi – named after his dad – was born on January 11, 2017, weighing 6lbs 9oz.
‘I was scared. I was constantly worrying, the whole pregnancy I thought something would go wrong,’ Emily admitted.
‘I didn’t even stop worrying after my scan. I was thinking all the time that something would happen. I didn’t relax at any point. I had it in the back of my mind.
‘Pregnancy with Richi was completely normal but at the end he was breech because he didn’t have room to turn.”‘
Emily needed a C-section – doctors simply cut her right womb and left her left one well alone.
Terrified she wouldn’t be able to have more children, the pair began trying for their second as soon as baby Richi turned one.
Emily got pregnant on the second month of trying and discovered baby Arlie was in her left womb at his 12-week scan.
He was born on October 26 last year at 37 weeks weighing 6lbs 3oz.
She hasn’t ruled out more children and jokes they’d take bets over which womb they’d end up in.
‘We’re pretty chilled about it now,’ she said.
‘But when you think about it, it is amazing really.’
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