A 32-year-old American woman with a double uterus – a rare congenital condition estimated to affect about 0.3% of women – scientifically called a “didelphic uterus” – gave birth to twin girls a day apart after pregnancy was once thought possible was held a million and after a birth that lasted a total of 20 hours. It happened in Alabama, at the University Hospital of Birmingham, according to the university's website, as well as the international media and the mother herself, Kelsey Hatcher, on her social channels.
The woman, who conceived in each of her uteruses, gave birth naturally to her first baby, Roxi Layla, on Tuesday, while her little sister Rebel Laken was born on Wednesday. “Never in our wildest dreams could we have planned a pregnancy and birth like this… but the birth of our two healthy baby girls was our goal from the start, and the doctors helped us achieve that goal,” Hatcher said in the released statement by the hospital. The mother then added: “It is therefore true that our little ones have two birthdays as they have had different 'homes'.”
The woman was diagnosed with a didelphic uterus at the age of 17, but before this extraordinary double birth she had already given birth to two other children, each born “from one uterus.” This time, when she underwent the ultrasound and the doctor “moved the image to the other uterus, I was breathless,” Kelsey Hatcher said. “It was certain there was another baby, we couldn’t believe it,” but it was all TRUE.