Ghanaian woman with two vaginas, wombs finally gives birth in UK

Meet the UK based Ghanaian woman with two vaginas, two cervixes and two wombs who defied all odds to give birth to a baby girl.

Elizabeth Amoaa, 36, who went to the UK from Ghana in 2003 was misdiagnosed with uterine fibroids.

This condition meant she had very little chance in becoming a mother.

At age 10, Mrs Amoaa had been in and out of the hospitals with complaints of stomach cramps and severe bleeding-but her doctors could not detect her rare condition despite conducting tens of scans on her.

Despite doctors’ diagnosis of her condition, Mrs Amoaa managed to get pregnant in 2010 with her daughter.

Even during her pregnancy, she said Doctors failed to see she had two vaginas, two cervixes and two wombs.

A condition known as Uterus didelphys occurs when two smaller tubes in a female foetus fail to fuse into a single uterus, instead growing into two separate structures.

This often increases the risk of miscarriage, premature delivery and bleeding during pregnancy.

It was only in 2015, when she was diagnosed after miscarrying her second child. This was after medics conducted an MRI to ascertain her actual condition.

She said: ‘It was kind of a shock, you want answers to your health but that wasn’t what I was expecting. It was new, I had never heard of anyone born with a double womb, then in 2016 they found I also had two cervixes and two vaginas.’

Speaking about being pregnant with her daughter Rashley, she added: ‘It was a challenging pregnancy, I was bleeding throughout, fainting and feeling tired. They actually thought it was ectopic pregnancy as they didn’t know I have a double womb, and nor did I’.

She then revealed due to the fact that she had two wombs, doctors kept scanning the wrong one.

This also led them to believe she had an ectopic pregnancy – when a fertilised egg grows outside the womb.

She was asked to brace herself as the worst was yet to happen to her child. She said ‘: ‘I would go to have a scan, which I had to do frequently because of my fibroids, and one minute they would see the baby is in the womb, then the next they could not find the baby’.

Sometimes they were scanning the wrong womb, I had 20 scans and no-one pointed out I had a double womb – because it’s so rare they weren’t looking out for it. They’d say “We cannot see the baby, maybe the fibroids are hiding the baby” and persisted in saying I should have a termination. But my belly was growing and I realised actually it’s a baby and I was determined to carry it to birth. The day my daughter was born was a miracle because during the pregnancy it didn’t feel real. They basically told me I was actually infertile, so when I fell pregnant a year later it was a huge surprise’, the mother-of-one said.

In 2017, she got pregnant again but miscarried after four months.

She now engages in advocacy on female gynecological conditions in Ghana to educate women, especially those in the deprived communities where such conditions are seen as witchcraft.