Lindsay Hasaj gives birth to a one in a million baby girl (Photos/Pictures)
July 16th, 2009 LimauAis Science, Women, World News
Woman with two wombs gives birth to a one-in-a-million baby girl.
All expectant mothers worry about how they will cope after their first child is born.
But given her one-in-a-million condition, all Lindsay Hasaj could think about was getting through the pregnancy.
During a scan Lindsay Hasaj discovered she had two wombs, a rare anatomical condition that halved her chances of fertilisation and complicated her pregnancy.
Lindsay Hasaj had to have scans every two weeks, and even the tiniest problem caused enough anxiety to give her sleepless nights and necessitate trips to hospital.

But despite the odds being against her, Lindsay Hasaj has astonished doctors by giving birth to a healthy baby girl, Mirela Elizabeth. It has left her and husband Tony feeling like ‘the luckiest parents alive’.
Lindsay Hasaj, 27, said: ‘I’m still in a state of disbelief and Tony and I never thought we would get this far. It’s fantastic.
‘Bringing her home was the most wonderful experience that no words in any language can explain. It was just massive amounts of tears of joy and relief.’
It was in November that Lindsay Hasaj, a financial sales worker, discovered her condition.
Lindsay Hasaj and 31-year-old Tony, a security firm manager, had been trying for a baby for four months.
Lindsay Hasaj went to hospital with a pain in her abdomen that she feared was caused by an ectopic pregnancy – when a baby grows outside the womb.

The scan left the sonographer amazed when it emerged Lindsay Hasaj had two wombs – or uterus didelphys – and was pregnant.
Although eight in 10,000 women in the UK have some form of the condition, only one in a million has Lindsay Hasaj’s exact internal anatomy, which is a double womb, double cervix and double vagina.
Lindsay Hasaj said: ‘Knowing that my condition is so rare I’ve had to have scans every two weeks to make sure everything is OK.
‘There have been complications that wouldn’t normally be an issue but for me they have been, such as the baby not moving around that much. I had sleepless nights and in the ante-natal classes everyone else was preparing to be parents for the nine months before giving birth.’
On the day itself she was given an epidural and the birth went perfectly, with Mirela emerging a healthy 6lb 3oz by Caesarian section.
Now at home with her parents in Finchley, North London, Mirela has been given the all-clear by doctors. Lindsay Hasaj said she could try again for another baby but would have to have another Caesarian.

Henry Annan, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Royal Free Hospital, in North West London where Mirela was born last week said: ‘With a pregnancy like this everyday complications such as premature labour and the baby not being born in a normal way can take on another dimension.’
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