Pregnancy in both uteruses is extremely rare ANDREA MABRY / University of Alabama Birmingham / AFP
A 32yearold American woman who was born with the rare condition of two uteruses and became pregnant twice, once each uterusThe woman announced on Friday that she gave birth to twins on different days.
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“Our miracle babies are born!” wrote Kelsey Hatcher, who documented the story on her Instagram account @doubleuhatchlings (a play on the mother's last name and the term for double pregnancies).
The first girl, Roxi Layla, was born on Tuesday (19) at 7:49 p.m. local time, and her sister, Rebel Laken, was born on Wednesday (20) at 6:09 a.m.
Doctors predicted the birth date would be Christmas Day, but the twins were born early and were able to spend the holidays at home with their other siblings.
The mother and daughters have already been released and Hatcher promised to announce more details about the birth soon.
Hatcher learned at age 17 that he was born with a Didelphys uterus, an anomaly that affects 0.3% of women.
In May, the American woman, who already had three children, discovered during a routine ultrasound scan in the eighth week of her pregnancy that she was pregnant with twins and had a fetus in each of her uteruses.
Pregnancy with both uteruses is extremely rare, said Shweta Patel, an obstetrician and gynecologist who treated Hatcher at the University of Alabama Women's Center in Birmingham in the southern United States.
Hatcher said she was told that the chance of pregnancy in any uterus is one in 50 million and that the last known case of this phenomenon without artificial insemination was a woman in Bangladesh who gave birth to healthy twins in 2019. with a 26 day difference between births.