WASHINGTON — A 32-year-old American who was born with an unusual anomaly and has two uteruses carried two pregnancies, one in each womb, and gave birth to twins on different days, the woman announced.
“Our miracle babies were born!” wrote Kelsey Hatcher, who has documented their story on her Instagram account “doubleuhatchlings” (a play on the mother’s last name and the term double incubation).
The first twin, named Roxi Layla, was born on Tuesday at 7:49 p.m. local time and her sister, Rebel Laken, on Wednesday at 6:09 a.m.
Doctors projected the due date for Christmas Day, but the twins were born early, just in time to spend the holidays at home with the rest of their siblings.
The mother and her daughters have already been discharged and Hatcher promised to provide more details of the birth in the future.
Hatcher learned at age 17 that she was born with a didelphys uterus, an anomaly with a prevalence of 0.3%.
In May, during a routine ultrasound at eight weeks pregnant, the woman, who already had three children, learned that she was carrying twins and had a fetus in each of her uteruses.
These types of pregnancies are extremely rare, said Shweta Patel, the obstetrician who treated Hatcher at the Center for Women and Infants at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the southern United States.
Hatcher stated that she was told that the chances of a pregnancy in each uterus are one in 50 million, and that the last reported case of this phenomenon, which occurred without assisted fertilization, is that of a woman in Bangladesh who gave birth to twins in 2019. healthy with 26 days of difference between both births.
Source: With information from AFP
