A 32-year-old woman from Alabama who was born with two uteruses and became pregnant in both, gave birth to twin girls on different days, she said on Friday.
“Our miracle babies were born!” Kelsey Hatcher, who is documenting her story on her Instagram account “doubleuhatchlings”, wrote in a post.
She added that the girls “decided they were rare enough statistically that they should just go ahead and have their own birthdays too”.
The first one, named Roxi Layla, was born on Tuesday night and the other, Rebel Laken, on Wednesday morning. Each weighed over seven pounds (3.2 kilos).
Doctors had estimated a Christmas due date. But following 20 hours of combined labour after Hatcher was induced at 39 weeks, the sisters arrived just in time to be at home for the holidays with their siblings.
The mother and daughters have been discharged from the hospital, with Hatcher promising to share details about the delivery in future. Hatcher knew from the age of 17 that she had “uterus didelphys”, a rare congenital condition thought to affect about 0.3 percent of females. In such cases, each uterus has only one ovary and one fallopian tube.—AFP
