Woman births twin girls from rare double uterus
A woman with two uteruses — a rare condition in itself — got a double Christmas present with two baby girls, one from each uterus.
Kelsey Hatcher of Dora, Alabama, delivered her daughters a day apart, one last Tuesday and the other on Wednesday, in what the University of Alabama at Birmingham called a “truly one in a million” pregnancy.
“Never in our wildest dreams could we have planned a pregnancy and birth like this, but bringing our two healthy baby girls into this world safely was always the goal, and UAB helped us accomplish that,” Hatcher said in the hospital’s report. “It seems appropriate that they had two birthdays, though. They both had their own ‘houses,’ and now both have their own unique birth stories.”
Hatcher had known since she was 17 that she had uterus didelphys, the clinical name for a double uterus, but had no idea she was carrying two babies until she requested that both uteruses be checked during an ultrasound. Lo and behold, there was indeed a second baby.
“As soon as she moved the wand to the other uterus, I gasped,” Hatcher said. “Sure enough, there was another baby. We just could not believe it.”
Hatcher had already carried three kids to term one at a time, so it was a shock to both her and medical personnel that both uteruses had been deployed.
“I had already taken care of Kelsey through her third pregnancy and knew she had a double uterus, but that was only one baby,” Hatcher’s OB/GYN, Dr. Shweta Patel, said in the hospital’s statement. “Two babies in two uteri were a true medical surprise.”
Just 0.3% of women are born with two uteruses, the hospital said, and getting pregnant in both simultaneously is a one in a million chance.
Roxi and Rebel are now home meeting their three older sibs, aged 7, 4 and 2, People reported.
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