Taipei woman gives birth with one-third of her uterus
Staff Reporter 2012-09-11 08:39 (GMT+8)
The woman, surnamed Chen, with her husband, her doctor and one of her newborn twins. (File photo/China Times)
Gynecologists from Taipei Medical University Hospital helped a 38-year-old woman with only one-third of her womb give birth to a pair of twins, our sister newspaper China Times reported on Sept. 6.
The woman, surnamed Chen, had two-thirds of her uterus removed due to tumors.
After her last procedure, she had one-third of her uterus and one ovary remaining, and had determined to live happily without thinking about having children.
Then out came a pair of twins, China Times reported. They were born in the end of August.
"Her case was extremely dangerous because her uterus may not have been able to hold the twins. If it ruptured, the baby would have fallen out and died, which would have jeopardized her health too," said Liu Wei-min, a gynecologist from the hospital.
