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| Krista Schwab, 32, and her husband Courtney, 33, |
A woman who was told she
was infertile after being born with two sets of reproductive organs is now
expecting a miracle baby.
Krista Schwab, 32, has
two vaginas, cervixes and wombs.
After suffering two
miscarriages, Krista and her husband Courtney, 33, had given up any hope of
having a child.
Krista is now five
months pregnant and expecting a baby boy, which is growing in her left womb.
She said: 'For so many
years my husband and I cried, prayed and dreamed of having a child. We both had
so many breakdowns because we wanted one so much.'
Krista from Washington
State, was diagnosed with the rare condition, known as uterus didelphys,
when she was just 12 years old.
Although she was aware
from a young age that she had two wombs and cervixes, it wasn't until she
reached the age of 30 that she found out she also had two vaginas.
Krista said: 'I always
felt the separate sections during intercourse and smear tests, but I just
thought that feeling was a normal thing every woman had.'
After years of dreaming
for a miracle baby, Krista bought a pregnancy test without much hope.
She said: 'After
probably 1,000 negative pregnancy tests - it got to the point where I gave up
wishing anymore.'
'Last December I put on
weight so I bought my billionth pregnancy test, which my husband and I thought
was just a waste of money.
'I normally pray and
hope whilst I wait, but this time I lost all hope and didn't bother.
'Then I saw it - it was
positive. I hit the floor crying.'
'It was a massive shock,
especially for my husband!'
She added: 'When I met
my husband at 20 years old, I told him I couldn't have kids.
'So the whole time I've
been together with my husband we didn't use protection.'
Uterus didelphys is
associated with infertility in itself, but Krista's pregnancy is even more
miraculous as she is expecting in the womb that did not release an egg.
She said: 'The only
ovary that was functioning was on that right side with that very shallow
opening, there was no connection for the left to get an egg through it.
'It's incredible because
doctors still don't understand it. The fact that I'm pregnant on the left side
and it's impossible for the egg to get there.'
Although happily
married, Krista's condition continues to affect her everyday life.
She said: 'Sex is
extremely sensitive and can hurt - it affects my sex life and my
self-confidence.
'However my husband and
I joke around about it all the time.
'There's so many prude
comments I get about my vaginas, but what is upsetting is the link to my
infertility.'
Most women with uterine
didelphys are forced to have a cesarean section, but Krista is hopeful for a
natural birth.
She said: 'Because of my
two vaginas the baby will have to come down the left side vagina.
'Doctors think I'll have
to have a C-section, but I'm dreaming of a natural water birth.
'I am scared that he
will get stuck, one vagina is much smaller, if they were both one vagina it'd
be a normal size.'
Krista hopes her miracle
baby will give hope to other uterus didelphys-sufferers who are desperate to
conceive.
She said: 'Ten years of
trying to have a baby it just happened. I want women with uterine didelphys to
never let anyone tell them miracles can't happen because they do.'
Dr Nick Raine-Fenning,
spokesperson, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said: 'The
uterus forms in-utero by the fusion of two tubes, which are called the
Mullerian ducts.
'The wall between the
tubes breaks down before birth in its lower aspect leaving one womb and one
cervix whilst the upper parts stay separate and form the two fallopian tubes.
'The process can go
wrong at any time leaving two completely separate tubes and therefore two uteri
and two cervixes, as well as two vaginas, known as uterine didelphys or double
uterus, at one extreme or one uterus separated by a muscular wall which is a
septate uterus.
'Uterine anomalies, as
they are called, have been associated with infertility, miscarriage, and
preterm delivery.'
CulledfromDailyMail
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