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Can a hemorphidite [ sp ] give birth ?

In vitro fertilization technology may afford some otherwise infertile patients the ability to father children. In phenotype female true hermaphrodites, twelve living offspring have resulted from fourteen individual pregnancies.11 Uterine maldevelopment and stenosis of the cervix or fallopian tubes, however, renders normal childbirth improbable.

http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/news/rev...v3n2_0002.html

1: Fertil Steril. 2008 Nov;90(5):2016.e7-10. Epub 2008 Apr 18. Links
Pregnancy in a hermaphrodite with a male-predominant mosaic karyotype.

Schoenhaus SA, Lentz SE, Saber P, Munro MG, Kivnick S.
Kaiser Permanente Southern California, West Los Angeles and Los Angeles Medical Centers, Los Angeles, California 90034, USA.
OBJECTIVE: To report a pregnancy in a hermaphrodite and review of the literature. DESIGN: Case report and literature review. SETTING: Clinical. PATIENT(S): A patient with male-predominant mosaic karyotype 96% 46XY. INTERVENTION(S): Removal of left ovotestis in combination with a supracervical hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Identification of published cases of pregnancy and hermaphroditism. RESULT(S): The current patient had previous pregnancy and a wedge biopsy of her left gonad, which demonstrated an ovotestis and an area suspicious for a gonadoblastoma. After delivery of her second pregnancy, the patient underwent a hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. The histopathologic evaluation following bilateral oophorectomy demonstrated a residual ovotestis without further evidence of a gonadoblastoma. Review of the literature identified 10 other cases of pregnancy in a hermaphrodite patient. CONCLUSION(S): This is the 11th reported case of fertility in a true hermaphrodite and only the second report of a mosaic true hermaphrodite to demonstrate fertility. This is the only case of a pregnancy involving a male-predominant mosaic 96% 46XY and the only case to confirm the genetics of the offspring.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...t=AbstractPlus