2023-12-25 03:36:00
Kelsey Hatcher with her newborns (via AFP)
A 32-year-old Alabama woman who was born with two uteruses and became pregnant in both gave birth to twin girls on different days.
“Our miracle babies were born!” wrote in a post by Kelsey Hatcher, who is documenting her story on her “doubleuhatchlings” Instagram account.
He added that the girls “decided they were statistically weird enough to go ahead and have their own birthdays too.”
The first, named Roxi Layla, was born on Tuesday at 7:49 p.m. (0149 GMT Wednesday). She was joined by Rebel Laken on Wednesday at 6:09 a.m. Each one weighed more than 3.2 kilos.
Doctors had estimated that the delivery would occur on Christmas. But following 20 hours of combined labor following Hatcher was induced at 39 weeks, the sisters arrived just in time to be home for the holidays with their siblings.
Kelsey Hatcher and her husband Caleb following giving birth (University of Alabama/AFP)
The mother and daughters have been discharged from the hospital, and Hatcher has promised to share details of the birth in the future.
Hatcher knew from the age of 17 that she had “uterus didelphys,” a rare congenital condition thought to affect regarding 0.3% of women. In these cases, each uterus only has one ovary and one fallopian tube.
In May, during a routine eight-week gestation ultrasound, Hatcher, a massage therapist and mother of three, learned not only that she was having twins this time, but that there was a fetus in each of her uteruses.
“As soon as (the technician) moved the wand toward the other uterus, I gasped,” Kelsey recalled, according to a statement from the University of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham.
“Sure enough, there was another baby. We might not believe it”.
The first, named Roxi Layla, was born on Tuesday at 7:49 p.m. (0149 GMT Wednesday). She was joined by Rebel Laken on Wednesday at 6:09 a.m.
Pregnancies in both uteruses are extremely rare, according to Shweta Patel, the obstetrician-gynecologist who treated Hatcher at UAB’s Women & Infants Center.
Patel was Hatcher’s doctor during her third pregnancy. “Two babies in two wombs were a true medical surprise,” she stated in a hospital statement, in which she noted that she received additional help from UAB high-risk obstetrics experts.
The twins Roxi Layla and Rebel Laken (via AFP)
Richard Davis, a professor in the hospital’s Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, said the congenital anomaly of Hatcher’s dicavitary twin pregnancy meant her babies were not required to share a single, narrow uterus, a condition that would have made birth premature. was a high possibility.
“With Kelsey’s babies, each had their own uterus, sac, placenta and umbilical cord, allowing them more room to grow and develop,” Davis said in the statement, which was accompanied by a video produced by the Hatcher Pregnancy and Childbirth Hospital.
Hatcher said she was told the odds of a double pregnancy in double uteruses were one in 50 million, with the last case widely known in Bangladesh in 2019, when Arifa Sultana, then 20, gave birth to healthy babies at 26. days apart.
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