Woman to Deliver Second Twin Six Weeks After First
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A 33-year-old Romanian woman has given birth to a son and is due to give birth to his twin six weeks later in what has been called a medical first in Romania, a doctor said Tuesday.
"This is the first time this has happened in Romania," said Elena Mihalceanu, a gynecologist at the Cuza Voda hospital in this northeastern city where the first baby was born.
In a telephone interview, Mihalceanu said the twins were conceived from the same egg in May, but had separate placentas. The mother, Maricica Tescu has two uteruses due to a congenital malformation.
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Mihalceanu said there had been about a dozen similar cases worldwide.
Tescu, a landscape gardener, went into early labor at 29 weeks and gave birth normally to the boy, weighing 3.5 pounds, on Dec. 11.
The baby stayed a week in intensive care, suffering breathing difficulties. He is still in the hospital but is doing well now, said Mihalceanu.
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The second twin is due to be born at full term at the end of January, Mihalceanu said. The woman already has an 11-year-old son.