Woman with two uteruses has a “twin pregnancy with a baby in each organ the earth

Kelsey Hatcher is pregnant with two girls

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32yearold American Kelsey Hatcher suffers from a rare condition: two uteruses instead of just one. But when she became pregnant, she experienced an even more unusual experience: a fetus was growing in each reproductive organ.

This only happens to one in a million pregnant women with a didelphys uterus, the technical term for the malformation that causes the organ to double in size. The estimate comes from Richard Davis, a maternalfetal medicine specialist who is following Kelsey’s case.

According to the Washington Post, the birth is expected in December, around Christmas. “I don’t know if we’ll fully understand the extent of it until birth,” Kelsey told the newspaper, also referring to her husband Caleb.

Uterus didelphys

Her second uterus was discovered in 2008 when Kelsey was a teenager. Because of the condition, which affects 0.3% of women, she heard she was at increased risk of miscarriage and premature birth if she became pregnant.

The publication states that she didn’t care at first as she wasn’t thinking about having children in the near future. But years later, in 2016, the first pregnancy occurred, without complications.

Shortly thereafter, Kelsey had two more children, also without complications. She didn’t plan any further pregnancies after that, so she was surprised when she found out she was pregnant in March.

Given the news, she and her husband tried to remain optimistic about raising their four children. Until May, during a regular ultrasound scan, they received the news that there would be five two female children who were developing well in the womb. Kelsey and her husband joke that the girls fight when they feel each other kicking at the same time.

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Unexpected birth conditions

According to the Washington Post, there are concerns in the case. This is because each uterus can contract at different times, so one baby can be born hours, days, or even weeks before another.

To avoid such a difference, Kelsey plans to undergo a cesarean section at least for the birth of her second child. “This is so rare that we don’t have much guidance,” said Shweta Patel, the woman’s obstetrician. Doctors are treating the case as a twin pregnancy.

Source: Redação Terra Você