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[Ironwood]

I don't even understand how this is possible :

BABIES

[schild]

The odds are 1 in 25,000,000. How many babies are born every day?

As such, shouldn't this happen more often?

Edit: Also, why is it whenever I see a woman give birth to twins (or more), the first thought that goes through my head is "can the family (or single mother) afford this?" Normally, I'd clump that under evil/tasteless/tacky thoughts, but these days, not so much.

[Strazos]

Perhaps it does, but doesn't make it to the news? Prolly happens more often in China or India.

[schild]

I'm not so sure women in China are allowed to have 3 baby girls. Could be wrong. Probably wrong in fact.

[Strazos]

Yeah, that order was rescinded a couple years ago.

Also, on the twins thing...yeah, I get the exact same thought. Every time. How about people who have like, 4 or more in a single go? I'm probably hang myself with the medical bills and spare diaper bags.

[Trippy]

The odds are 1 in 25,000,000. How many babies are born every day?

As such, shouldn't this happen more often?

I'm pretty sure that's the odds if you have two wombs. The odds of having two wombs is a separate probability.

[Strazos]

Well, they said 1 in 1000 have dual wombs in the UK. Not sure if that was factored in or not.

[Trippy]

Yeah, that order was rescinded a couple years ago.

What order was rescinded a couple of years ago?

[Trippy]

Well, they said 1 in 1000 have dual wombs in the UK. Not sure if that was factored in or not.

The chances of a woman with two wombs having twins or two separate births is estimated to be five million to one.

The odds of having triplets from two wombs are around 25 million to one.

Note the inclusion of the words "with/from two wombs" in both probabilities.

[Strazos]

Yeah, that order was rescinded a couple years ago.

What order was rescinded a couple of years ago?

The child limits. Last I heard anyway.

[Trippy]

Yeah, that order was rescinded a couple years ago.

What order was rescinded a couple of years ago?

The child limits. Last I heard anyway.

No.

[geldonyetich]

From what I've heard, what they did in China was provide more incentive to have girls, since the patrilineal society had a definate preference to birth boys and it was resulting in a lot of infanticide.  So before it was something like one child per couple now it's something like one child per couple but up to two girls doesn't count.  Some parts of China never had these restrictions, however.

So, anyway.  Two wombs, three babies.  I don't suppose the husband was complaining about twice the work of impregnating her. ;)

[Raging Turtle]

It's not a restriction exactly - you can have multiple children, but your taxes go way up if you have more than one.

[NowhereMan]

Yeah, if you have more than one child you lose all state benefits for the second child. You need to have pay for all their medical, educational, etc. needs. Result is now that you can identify the really rich Chinese because they have more than one child.

Also this does count if you have twins and in the countryside couples are allowed up to two children to try and keep the countryside population high and so they can help on the farm.

[WindupAtheist]

One out of every 1000 women in the UK is sporting dual-wombs?  WTF?

[Signe]

They have racing stripes, too.

[Ironwood]

And wicked rims.

[Signe]

You're always just a little bit dirty minded... except when you're being extraordinarily dirty minded!

[Lantyssa]

And I can't even get one.  Their distribution system is hosed.

[CmdrSlack]

From the article I read, most women who have multiple wombs have a 50-50 shot of being able to carry the baby to term.  Sadly, I can't find the damn thing at CNN.com any more, so yeah.  The way it was described was "separate or partially joined wombs."  I assume that they're subbing "womb" for "uterus?"  Is this just a case of dumbing it down for the public?

ETA -- Apparently yes, it is.  The BBC article is not dumbed down.

twice the work of impregnating her

In Miss Kersey's case, the babies were conceived from two eggs - one in each womb - which were fertilised at the same time by two different sperm.

[geldonyetich]

I was kidding.

It's kinda misleading to call them all "identical" when different sperm were involved in the fertilization of one out of the three of them.

[Lantyssa]

There were three babies.  Two were identical and the third was a fraternal from the second womb.  They didn't say they were all identical.

[Tale]

Maybe evolution is solving declining fertility rates.

[geldonyetich]

Given enough time, evolution can solve a wide range of environment limitations.  But in this case, the triplets came from the UK.

So, apparently 1 in 1000 women in the UK have mutant double-wombs.  That's news to me.

[Strazos]

Ya know, that stat is going to be in the back of my mind next time I have an unprotected one-night stand with a woman from the UK.

[Ironwood]

If you're drunk enough to fuck a woman from the Uk, it's going to be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay in the back of your mind.

[bhodi]

ouch. You mean it isn't like eurotrip?

[Ironwood]

It's really, really not.

[Llava]

They're all Kate Beckinsale in my imagination.

[Samwise]

I thought the "1 in 1000 have double wombs" stat was a bit unbelievable until I scrolled down a bit and looked at the explanatory diagram.  Not nearly as exciting or freakish as the term 'double womb" would lead you to believe.  It's not "doubled" so much as "partitioned".