It's enough of a shock to find you are pregnant with twins. It's an even greater shock to find you are carrying twins in two different uteruses! That happened recently to a British woman.
Kelly Fairhurst, 28, only learned she had uterus didelphys, a condition where a woman has two wombs, when she went for her 12-week scan. She was also told she was carrying twins, one in each womb.
“The twins could be identical. The condition itself is quite rare but they went on to tell me that it was a one in a 50m chance for me to conceive twins in each womb,” she told the Sun.
Fairhurst, who was also surprised to be told she had two cervixes, already has two daughters, aged three and four. “With my second baby they said that I might have a bicornuate uterus, which means it’s not fully formed. So when I went for this scan, I was really surprised to learn that I have two of them.
To forestall the possibility that Fairhurst might have two different labor and deliveries, the twins will be born by cesarian section. Read more at the Guardian. -via Damn Interesting
(Unrelated image credit: David Roseborough)
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1 - Is this supposed to be Manhattan? I didn't know it was one big, green hill with three office buildings and a single-family home. Of course, I've only been there once.
2 - The single family home: what the hell is going on? I think its supposed to be a tornado ripping off the roof. But why is the roof intact and flipped over? Why is the tornado so tiny? And are there tornados in Manhattan?
3 - Who buys a house that is incredibly small, and seems to comprise of two windows, one door, and a single, yellow room with a rug. Of course, if this is the only house in Manhattan then I guess beggers can't be choosers.
4 - A major city without roads. Okay. Unless one craggy, weed-choked dirt path going up the hill is the "road". No wonder New Yorkers are so grouchy.
5 - That car is colossal relative to the other objects in the picture. Must be one of those SUVs that liberals get so upset about. I guess the roll-over safety rating of this particular vehicle isn't very impressive. And the action lines emulating from the car is indicating to us that something is still happening, but what? Is the car angry?
6 - The vegetation in front of the beige office building - trees, bushes, or is it just green fire? I don't know.
7 - The twin towers are a lot smaller than I remember. Of course, they could be simply very far away from us. But then the airplane would be absolutely gigantic. I don't know.
And, seriously, an adult drew this picture.
Are you serious? Please tell me you are joking. Perhaps they should have used some architectural blueprints and a topographical map, would that make you happier? Perhaps you should log off the computer and go for a walk.
Also, I think this the colouring book is a good idea; I have no problem with this being used as a tool to help children come to terms with tragedy.
I don't hear of planes flying into office buildings very often, so I wouldn't think there is much of a need for the cover and whole page be devoted to it.
Yes, I'm joking. Perhaps my sarcasm and snarkiness flew under your radar.
Oddnumber:
Actually, the coloring books in my youth had some degree of artistic competence. You know, by people who can actually draw in realistic scale and perspective (for example, Batman and Robin were drawn to be smaller than the Batmobile). Just because you offer a product to children doesn't mean you ignore very, very basic artistic conventions.
Seriously, would you give this kind of crap to your child? If so, I mourn their Happy Meal existence.
I'm pretty I've read somewhere that an adult drew this coloring book. I think if they went with Koko the chimp, they would've ended up with a better product.