A mum who bled so severely she had to wear adult nappies discovered she had two uteruses, cervixes and vaginas - and carried a baby in each womb. Shannon Webster, 28, struggled with heavy bleeding since she started her period aged 14. She was put on the pill to ease her symptoms but still suffered badly and would feel faint, wear three pads at once and even had to result to wearing nappies.
When Shannon became sexually active she found sex painful but doctors told her she was just "small" and it was "normal". The mum-of-two fell pregnant and gave birth to her son, now 10, two weeks early via c-section - but doctors still didn't spot anything. But after a miscarriage, the sonographer spotted Shannon had two uteruses - a condition known as uterus didelphys.
Shannon fell pregnant again with her youngest boy, seven, and was told she also had two cervixes and two vaginas during a speculum examination while she was expecting. Doctors worked out her first son had been carried in her left womb - as it was stretched - and saw her youngest in her right on the ultrasound. After having her son Shannon was able to have surgery to remove the septum between her two vaginas and has found a pill that helps ease heavy bleeding.
Shannon, a medical secretary, from Basingstoke, Hampshire said: "I couldn't use tampons. I tried to use them but it caused me so much pain. Doctors just said I was really tiny.
I'd have training pads for dogs on my bed. I had three pads in my pants. "I just woke up cove.
