We all know what the shape of a womb is.
For those of you who missed this ‘class’, the womb is in a pear-shape.
But this woman has her womb in the shape of a heart.
Astonishing pictures have emerged of a mother’s heart-shaped womb that left doctors in Russia stunned.
The unidentified 39-year-old was born with a bicornuate uterus, an abnormality believed to strike one in 1,000 women.
Doctors warned for years that she would struggle to ever have children – but she defied their expectations to become pregnant with twins.
Before she gave birth, only a dozen cases of twins born to mothers with the unusual condition had ever been recorded in medical literature.
Hollywood actress Lena Dunham also suggested she has a bicornuate uterus earlier this year when she revealed she had a heart-shaped womb.
The woman, from Moscow, required a Caesarean section to give birth to her twins, who were both born healthy.
She named her son Evgeny, who was born weighing 7lbs, and daughter Varvara, born weighing slightly under 6lbs.
Does the abnormality affect women’s chance of getting pregnant?
Local reports state the woman had been told for years that she had ‘no chance of children’ due to her womb abnormality.
But experts say having the unusual-shaped womb does not cause extra problems with conception but there is a slightly higher risk of miscarriage.
However, women with a bicornuate womb are often urged to have a C-section because it can affect the way their baby lies in pregnancy.
A daily newspaper in Moscow read by nearly one million people each day, was the first to break the story.
They reported that ‘when doctors took the uterus out they could not believe their eyes, it had the perfect shape of a heart’.
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The newspaper also revealed ‘the uterus was not removed, it was only photographed and put back’ so the woman could have more children if she wishes.
Doctors at Bauman Moscow Clinical Hospital number 29 said the woman revealed she did want to extend her family at some point.
The medics published the incredible picture on their official Instagram account, with the mothers’ permission.
More than 3,000 people have liked the post since it was uploaded yesterday.
How rare is the abnormality?
Figures suggest 3% of women are born with an irregular uterus, of which a heart-shaped womb is one of the most common defects.
Turkish doctors were astounded when they came across a woman with a bicornuate uterus who gave birth to twins in 2013.
The team at Kütahya Dumlupinar University published the tale in the journal Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Writing in the publication at the time, they said: ‘To date, there are only 12 reported cases of twin pregnancy in a bicornuate uterus.’
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