Alabama woman with 2 uteruses welcomes twins with unique birthdays

The 32-year-old woman from Alabama, who was born with two uteruses and became pregnant in both, announced that she gave birth to twin girls on different days, on Friday.

“Our miracle babies were born!” Kelsey Hatcher, who is documenting her story on her Instagram account “doubleuhatchlings”, wrote in a post The Alabama woman added that the girls "decided they were rare enough statistically that they should just go ahead and have their own birthdays too."

Woman gives birth to 2 babies from 2 uteruses

Roxi Layla, the first one, was born on Tuesday at 7:49 pm (local time), and she was joined by Rebel Laken on Wednesday at 6:09 am. Although doctors had estimated a Christmas due date, 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 the future. Hatcher knew from the age of 17 that she had "uterus didelphys," a rare congenital condition thought to affect about 0.3 per cent of people born female.

During a routine eight-week ultrasound visit in May, the massage therapist and then mother of three learned not only that she was having twins this time but that a fetus was present in each of her uteruses. Pregnancies in both uteruses are very rare, according to Shweta Patel, the obstetrician-gynaecologist who cared for Hatcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Women & Infants Centre.