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. She herself announced it on social media: “Our miracle babies are born,” wrote Kelsey Hatcher, who documents her story on her Instagram account “doubleuhatchlings.”
The first baby, named Roxi Layla, was born on Tuesday, while her little sister Rebel Laken was born on Wednesday. Doctors had scheduled the birth for Christmas, but the sisters were born just in time to be home with their brothers for the holidays. The mother and daughters were released from the hospital, and Hatcher promised to share details about the birth in the future.
Hatcher knew since she was 17 that she had uterus didelphys, a rare congenital condition thought to affect about 0.3 percent of women. During a routine eight-week ultrasound in May, Hatcher, already a mother of three, learned not only that she was having twins this time, but also that there was a fetus in each of her uteruses.
According to Shweta Patel, the obstetrician-gynecologist who cared for Hatcher, pregnancies in either uterus are extremely rare. The woman said she was told the chance was 1 in 50 million – the last documented case in Bangladesh was in 2019, when then-20-year-old Arifa Sultana gave birth to healthy twins 26 days apart.
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