<p class="title">A Bangladeshi mother has stunned doctors by giving birth to healthy twins 26 days after a first child was born prematurely.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Arifa Sultana, 20, gave birth to a baby boy last month through normal delivery, but doctors missed the presence of a second uterus.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"She didn't realise she was still pregnant with the twins. Her waters broke again 26 days after the first baby was born and she rushed to us," Sheila Poddar, a gynaecologist who treated the woman, told AFP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Podder carried out an emergency caesarean section to deliver the twins -- one boy and one girl -- last Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The young woman from Jessore district in southwest Bangladesh was allowed to go home with her three healthy babies on Tuesday. Podder said there were no complications.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I haven't seen any case like this in my 30-year plus medical career," Dilip Roy, chief government doctor in Jessore, told AFP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Roy questioned the actions of Khulna Medical College Hospital doctors for not detecting the second pregnancy.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Hailing from a poor family, Sultana said she was happy with the three children but felt concerned how she would bring them up.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She told AFP her husband earns barely 6,000 taka ($70) a month as a labourer. "I don't know how we will manage such a huge responsibility with this little amount."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Her husband Sumon Biswas put on a brave face. "It was a miracle from Allah that all of my children are healthy. I will try my best to keep them happy," he said.</p>
<p class="title">A Bangladeshi mother has stunned doctors by giving birth to healthy twins 26 days after a first child was born prematurely.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Arifa Sultana, 20, gave birth to a baby boy last month through normal delivery, but doctors missed the presence of a second uterus.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"She didn't realise she was still pregnant with the twins. Her waters broke again 26 days after the first baby was born and she rushed to us," Sheila Poddar, a gynaecologist who treated the woman, told AFP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Podder carried out an emergency caesarean section to deliver the twins -- one boy and one girl -- last Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The young woman from Jessore district in southwest Bangladesh was allowed to go home with her three healthy babies on Tuesday. Podder said there were no complications.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I haven't seen any case like this in my 30-year plus medical career," Dilip Roy, chief government doctor in Jessore, told AFP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Roy questioned the actions of Khulna Medical College Hospital doctors for not detecting the second pregnancy.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Hailing from a poor family, Sultana said she was happy with the three children but felt concerned how she would bring them up.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She told AFP her husband earns barely 6,000 taka ($70) a month as a labourer. "I don't know how we will manage such a huge responsibility with this little amount."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Her husband Sumon Biswas put on a brave face. "It was a miracle from Allah that all of my children are healthy. I will try my best to keep them happy," he said.</p>