In the USA, a woman with two uteruses gave birth to twins. “Our miracle babies are born!” announced the 32-year-old Kelsey Hatcher, who documented her extraordinary pregnancy on Instagram on Friday. The two girls not only grew in different wombs, but were also born on different days: Roxi Layla was born on Tuesday night at 7:49 pm (local time), Rebel Laken at 6:09 am on Wednesday morning.
Her daughters apparently believe they are so “statistically unique” that they “should have their own birthdays,” Hatcher wrote.
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Woman has been discharged from hospital
According to Hatcher's gynecologist's calculations, the babies were due at Christmas. Now they are born early enough to spend the holidays at home with their siblings: Hatcher and the twins are doing so well that they have been released from the university hospital in Birmingham, USA Alabama were fired.
Hatcher plans to reveal details about the birth at a later date.
Hatcher knew from the age of 17 that she had two uteruses. It is estimated that 0.3% of all women are affected by the rare congenital malformation Uterus Didelphys.
In May, Hatcher, who was already a mother of three, discovered during an ultrasound in the eighth week of her pregnancy that this time she was pregnant with twins – and each baby was growing in its own uterus.
Extraordinary event
According to Hatcher's gynecologist, having two uteruses is even rarer Shweta Patel simultaneous pregnancies in both uteruses.
The probability is therefore 1 in 50 million. The last known case occurred in Bangladesh in 2019, where Arifa Sultana, then 20, gave birth to twins 26 days apart.