Woman Discovers She Has 'Two Vaginas, Two Cervixes' While Giving Birth

Until she went into labor, Brittany Jacobs was unaware that she had two openings in her vaginal region.

For 25 years, the possibility of having two vaginas, cervixes and uteruses had never crossed Jacobs' mind until a nurse told her of her unique condition.

“Oh honey, you have two vaginas, two cervixes, and two uteruses,” the nurse said as Jacobs was in the process of giving birth to her first child. Brittany, now 26, shared her story through a TikTok video that has now reached about 2.7 million views online.

However, this doesn't mean that Brittany never noticed any peculiarities in her vaginal region. When she was a child, she always thought that the two openings in her genitalia were just her hymen.

“I always believed it was my hymen, and as I got older, I thought it was just really tough and maybe would break one day,” she told BuzzFeed. Brittany also shared that she experienced two separate periods in a month and would undergo excruciating pain whenever she was menstruating.

In the video, the new mother said that her periods were “so bad I would cry." On top of this, she also mentioned that she would bleed out of her tampons within minutes of using them, and that sexual intercourse wasn't exactly a walk in the park either.

Doctors reassured Jacobs that the pain she experienced during sex and her periods weren't signs of abnormality, so she went on to accept the discomfort as part of her life. It was during her labor when she received perhaps one of the biggest revelations of her life.

Jacobs was eventually diagnosed with uterus didelphys, which is a condition where a woman is born with two uteruses. And although the condition never fails to surprise those who are diagnosed with it, uterus didelphys isn't really considered a rare occurrence, New York Post reported.

Dr. Mary Jane Minkin, a clinical professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the Yale University School of Medicine explained the condition via Buzzfeed.

"The female reproductive system actually forms from two tubular structures (right and left) that join together," she began.

"These tubes join together and basically form the uterus, cervix, and going down to the vagina. What happens also after these two fuse — the thing between the two as they get together goes away, it dissolves. And that’s called the septum between the two tubes. So what can happen is — depending on how much of the septum doesn’t disappear — as these two tubes fuse, you can end up with two totally next-door-to-each-other tracts," the doctor said.

Dr. Minkin then imparted the reminder that those who have been diagnosed with uterus didelphys aren't considered freaks or weird, since it isn't really considered a rare occurrence.