By JD
Published 2 hours ago, updated 25 minutes ago
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Kelsey Hatcher, who was born with a birth defect, had a one in a million chance of giving birth to two babies in each of her uteruses.
Two for the price of one. Kelsey Hatcher, an American mother, gave birth to two little girls, Roxi and Rebel, on December 21 and 22… from two different wombs, Sky News reports.
However, her pregnancy was completely normal. When she found out she was pregnant, the American from Alabama (USA) and mother of four had her first ultrasound scan, which went correctly.
One chance in a million
Until she remembers to tell the doctor caring for her that she suffers from a rare disease: she was born with two functioning uteruses. This rare congenital malformation of the uterus, called “Didelphus uterus,” affects only 0.3% of women worldwide. Then the doctor moved the ultrasound probe to the other side of her stomach and Kelsey exclaimed, “Oh my God,” according to CNN. There’s another baby!” and was astonished to discover that she was carrying a baby in each of her wombs.
An extremely rare phenomenon, according to American doctor Richard Davis, a specialist in maternal and fetal medicine, who cared for the mother. “Didelph uterine pathology is rare in itself, but the chance of being pregnant in each uterus at the same time is about one in a million,” he told ABC News.
A surprise also for the couple, who are already parents of three children aged 2, 4 and 7. Because of this rarity, pregnancy was high risk and was closely monitored. The delivery ultimately went well; After 20 hours of labor, Kelsey Hatcher gave birth to two daughters, Rebel and Roxi, who were born 10 hours apart.
False twins
According to Richard Davis and Shweta Patel, the obstetrician-gynecologist who cared for the mother, the two babies are believed to be fraternal twins. “There are many different types of twin pregnancies,” said Shweta Patel, whose comments were reported by ABC News. “What probably happened was that she ovulated separately and one egg went into each fallopian tube, so on each side of the uterus. The sperm are returned to each individual uterus and fertilization occurs separately.