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Little children will put just about anything into their mouths. Even ovaries. That’s why the plush toy manufacturer, I Heart Guts, is recalling their plush uterus. The pink plush toy, which technically is an all-in-one female reproductive system rather than just a uterus, sports fallopian tube “arms” and purple egg-shaped ovaries. Unfortunately for small children, however, the ovaries can be pulled off and become a choking hazard.

Although there have been no reports of death by ovary swallowing yet, the company’s Web site suggests that: “If the plush uterus is being use by a young child, please remove it immediately.”

Owners of the cushy uterus can send it in for a full refund or for an organ swap with any one of the other plush organs, including a plush brain, gallbladder, heart,  kidney, liver, lung, or pancreas. And for those who simply must own the female reproductive system, a new kid-friendly plush uterus is in development, according to the company.

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Doctors have discovered that a 27-year-old British woman has a double womb.  Not only that, she also has two cervixes and two vaginas.  Having two sets of reproductive organs, a condition known as uterus didelphys, may sound bizarre, but doctors say it affects as many as one in 1,000 women.

Lindsay Hasaj never suspected she was doubly-endowed, and neither did her husband or any of the doctors she had visited in her 27 years of life.  Uterus didelphys occurs during embryonic development, when the two halves of the uterus, each attached to a fallopian tube, fail to fuse together.  From the outside, women with uterus didelphys look completely normal. Doctors performing pelvic exams might not even notice, because, as one doctor explained, it’s like walking blindfolded into a tent separated with a tarp down the middle.

Hasaj was finally diagnosed after she had a sonogram for her pregnancy (which is in her right uterus).  Only afterwards did Hasaj connect her condition with the problems she’d always had in using tampons.

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