In the US, a woman with two uteruses gave birth to twins. “Our miracle babies are born!” 32-year-old Kelsey Hatcher, who documented her extraordinary pregnancy on Instagram, announced Friday. The two girls not only grew up in different wombs, but were also born on different days: Roxi Layla was born on Tuesday evening at 7:49 pm (local time), Rebel Laken on Wednesday morning at 6:09 am.
Her daughters apparently believe they are so “statistically unique” that “they should have their own birthdays,” Hatcher wrote.
Babies came a little early
According to Hatcher’s gynecologist’s calculations, the babies should be born on Christmas. Now they were born early enough to be home with their siblings during the holidays: Hatcher and the twins are doing so well that they have already been released from University Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. Hatcher plans to announce details about the birth at a later date.
Hatcher has known since she was 17 that she had two uteruses. An estimated 0.3 percent of all women suffer from the rare congenital defect Uterus Didelphys. In May, Hatcher, who was already a mother of three, learned during an ultrasound in the eighth week of her pregnancy that this time she was pregnant with twins – and that each baby was growing in its own womb.
The University of Alabama released a video about the extraordinary case:
Simultaneous pregnancy almost impossible
According to Hatcher’s gynecologist Shweta Patel, simultaneous pregnancies in both uteruses are even rarer than two uteruses. So the chance is 1 in 50 million. The last known case occurred in Bangladesh in 2019, where then 20-year-old Arifa Sultana gave birth to twins 26 days apart.
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