Girl Born With Cloaca Dreams Of Having Normal Life
Meet an eight-year-old girl born with two wombs, one functioning kidney and no vagina is desperate for an operation which could change her life.
Poppy Wadsworth was born with a rare malformation called cloaca which means she has rectum, vagina, and urinary tract fuse in a single common channel. The girl also has two wombs and is unable to use the toilet due to urological problems. She constantly takes antibiotics to fight infections and is dreaming of starting a new life as a normal kid.
Poppy’s mother Alison, who is trying to raise money for the life-changing operation, said: “I explained her condition by saying she is like a doll. We told the school about her condition and explained what it was. They explained to the other pupils and now they have all accepted her for who she is. A couple of kids are even jealous because she’s ‘special’.”
After years of waiting the doctors in America eventually offered Alison to operate on Poppy and even pay part of the treatment cost, as they are willing to study her for research purposes. A specialist surgeon has promised to make the girl a vagina, reshape the bladder and give her working kidneys and remove one of the wombs.
Neverthelss, the girl will still have problems with a reproductive function, she will have chances to conceive a baby in future but won’t be able to give birth naturally. Cloacas occur in 1 in 20,000 live births approximately and only in girls. Failure to identify a cloaca as being present in a newborn may be deadly dangerous.
Poppy Wadsworth was born with a rare malformation called cloaca which means she has rectum, vagina, and urinary tract fuse in a single common channel. The girl also has two wombs and is unable to use the toilet due to urological problems. She constantly takes antibiotics to fight infections and is dreaming of starting a new life as a normal kid.
Poppy Wadsworth with her mother Alison
She constantly takes antibiotics to fight infections and is dreaming of starting a new life as a normal kid
After years of waiting the doctors in America eventually offered Alison to operate on Poppy and even pay part of the treatment cost, as they are willing to study her for research purposes. A specialist surgeon has promised to make the girl a vagina, reshape the bladder and give her working kidneys and remove one of the wombs.
Neverthelss, the girl will still have problems with a reproductive function, she will have chances to conceive a baby in future but won’t be able to give birth naturally. Cloacas occur in 1 in 20,000 live births approximately and only in girls. Failure to identify a cloaca as being present in a newborn may be deadly dangerous.
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