The human body is never more impressive than when it brings another human into the world. So imagine the wonder and miracle of bringing multiple children into the world at once. One woman did just that.
Afterward, when she had to have a hysterectomy, she wasn’t ready to say goodbye to her uterus entirely. Thankfully, her sister is an interior designer and together they found a unique way to make use of her uterus by displaying it in her home.
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'There's no way we're discarding that bad boy,' Michelle said of her sister's uterus.
Christina is the mother of five children, including a set of unexpected twins, The Sun reported. After having the twins, Christina was certain she wasn’t going to have anymore children. So “she doesn’t exactly need her uterus to house anymore children. But the sisters decided they didn’t want to get rid of it either. She grew two babies in this uterus at one time. There's no way we're discarding that bad boy," Michelle said of her sister’s organ.
Now, Michelle is going to display her sister’s uterus in her home.
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First, the sisters found the perfect container to display it.
Michelle told her sister she could preserve her uterus with chemicals and display it in her home. The sisters even went to HomeGoods to find a decorative jar to house it.
"We needed to make sure that the transparency of the glass was good enough to display her lady parts in all their glory," Michelle said. The sisters documented the preservation of the uterus on TikTok in a series of videos that have since gone viral.
The sisters picked up the uterus three weeks after the surgery. It didn’t exactly look like it did when it came out of Christina’s body. The organ had to be cut up to be tested for disease. So before the two could go about displaying it, they had to piece it back together.
Michelle's uterus looked like portobello mushrooms.
“It looks like mushrooms, it looks like portobello,” Michelle said once they got the uterus out of its container. The cervix was also in the container. They put all of the pieces in to soak in water for 48 hours. Once all the pieces were in the jar, Michelle decided that she would attempt to sew the pieces of the uterus back together.
“I just feel like it can be done,” Michelle said. “Do I really want to be the girl sewing her sister’s uterus up on parchment paper? But we want to see it together.” After three hours of practice, Michelle did. The whole time she was sewing it together, she said she kept thinking “how amazing this little organ is and what a miracle life is.”
TikTokers found the series incredibly helpful.
Once it was sewn together, Christina said it looked like a maraca. We have to believe the series has done so well because most women will never see their uterus and there aren’t a lot of pictures of the actual organ even online. Blame it on the sexism that runs rife in women’s medicine.
Christina and Michelle’s cool little summer project entertained and most importantly, informed a lot of people.
“That little thing is what has been causing me pain for the last month?!” one user asked.
Another shared that it helped her understand her health a bit better. “You know this was actually super helpful for me because right now I have a mass on my uterus that’s 4 times the size of my uterus but I never really considered the size of my uterus and now I have a new appreciation for how badly I need my hysterectomy," she wrote.
Other women wished they had been able to see their uteruses.
Other users shared that after their own hysterectomies, they wanted to see what their uteruses looked like but weren’t able to keep it. So this video was much appreciated.
“Thank you for doing this!” one woman wrote. “I just had mine removed and I didn’t get to keep or even look at mine. Not even pictures after it was removed. I wanted to see it so badly.”
Christina and Michelle provided a fascinating service and we’re grateful.
