Woman with two vaginas gives birth to 'miracle baby'
What's the story
Adel Varga, a 29-year-old Hungarian woman with not one, but two uteruses, two vaginas, and two cervixes, has just made her dream come true. She is now a proud mom, but getting here wasn't easy. At the age of 28, she was diagnosed with Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome. She even got word from doctors that having a baby might just be a distant dream for her.
Pain
Varga's youth was spent in pain
Varga was born with a single kidney, two wombs, two cervixes, a normal vagina, and a special short canal vagina. Throughout her youth, she grappled with pain, never realizing her rare condition until she entered young adulthood. Over the years, she went to many doctors seeking answers to the pain she experienced, often receiving incorrect diagnoses.
Misdiagnosis
At 20, she got to know about her condition
When Varga turned 20, doctors told her she had something called uterus didelphys, a rare congenital condition in which the patient is born with two uteri. "I had a regular vagina and a blind vagina, as well as a second cervix," she revealed to Caters News Agency, adding, "It couldn't be seen because of my blind vagina, which was full of menstruation blood."
Love life
Her condition caused a stir in her love life
She had been in a three-year relationship, which broke at the start of 2020. She believes that her ex was concerned about her condition and ability to have children. However, in August of that same year, she met her now-husband, and on their very first date, she brought up the fact that she might never be a mother because of her condition.
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She underwent vaginal septum surgery
"In 2018, I underwent vaginal septum surgery which cut a hole, so the blood could flow out. After that, my periods were far more bearable, and it also got rid of years of bacterial vaginal infection," she shared with the news outlet.
Pregnancy attempt
The path to pregnancy was a tough road for her
Four months into her new relationship with Balázs Pór, in 2020, they began trying to have a baby. Even after trying for many months, she explained, she couldn't get pregnant. When it had been 10 months of trying, they decided to go to a fertility clinic for further examination. They found out that she also has chronic endometritis in both uteri.
IVF
She managed to get pregnant with the help of IVF
At 28, she discovered she had one kidney and was diagnosed with Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich. But she really wanted a baby, so the couple gave in-vitro fertilization a shot. Miraculously, their first try worked, even though the doctor didn't believe it would. Varga says she was "terrified throughout the pregnancy" as the baby grew in her left uterus.
Alice
At last, she was able to embrace motherhood
On July 13, 2023, after 36 weeks, the new mom welcomed her baby girl, Alice, through a cesarean section due to preeclampsia, a serious blood pressure problem during pregnancy. Grateful, they are now content with their family of three. They aren't planning another child due to the stress of pregnancy and the genetic risk of preeclampsia, Varga shared. We wish her the best.