Alabama mom who has rare double uterus gives birth to twin girls one day apart after one-in-a-million medical phenomenon

An Alabama mother with a rare double uterus who defied the one in 50 million odds by getting pregnant on both occasions has given birth to twins one day after the other.

Kelsey Hatcher, 32, gave birth to little Roxi Layla at 7:49 PM on Tuesday and Rebel Laken at 6:09 AM on Wednesday, each weighing more than seven pounds.

A beaming Hatcher shared a photo of herself in the maternity ward at the University of Alabama at Birmingham just before her babies arrived.

'Our miracle babies are born! They decided that they were statistically rare enough to just go ahead and celebrate their own birthdays too.

'I can't wait to share the whole birth story with you! Now that we're all home, we're taking our time, recovering and enjoying the holidays.”

Doctors estimated the due date for Christmas, but Hatcher was induced at 39 weeks after 30 hours of labor. In the photo: the mother with her husband Caleb and their daughters

The couple named their newborn daughters Roxi Layla (L) and Rebel Laken (R)

Doctors had estimated the due date for Christmas, but after 20 hours of combined labor after Hatcher was induced at 39 weeks, the sisters arrived just in time to be home for the holidays with their siblings.

The mother-of-five has known she has 'uterus didelphys', a rare congenital condition thought to affect three in a thousand women, since she was 17. In such cases, each uterus has only one ovary and one fallopian tube.

During a routine eight-week ultrasound visit in May, Hatcher, a massage therapist, discovered not only that she was having twins this time, but that a fetus was present in each of her uteruses.

“As soon as she (the technician) moved the wand to the other uterus, I gasped,” Kelsey recalled, according to a statement from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital.

'Yes, there was another baby. We just couldn't believe it.'

Pregnancies in either uterus are extremely rare, according to Shweta Patel, the obstetrician-gynecologist who cared for Hatcher at UAB's Women & Infants Center.

Patel was Hatcher's doctor during her third pregnancy. “But that was just one baby – two babies in two wombs was a real medical surprise,” she said in the statement, noting that she received additional help from UAB experts in high-risk obstetrics.

Richard Davis, a professor in the hospital's Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, said the congenital anomaly of Hatcher's dicavitary twin pregnancy meant her babies were not forced to share a single, cramped uterus, a condition that could make premature birth a high possibility. have made. .

The mother of five has 'uterus didelphys', a rare congenital condition believed to affect three in 1,000

She beat a one in 50 million chance of getting pregnant in each of her wombs

Mother and babies have now been released from the maternity ward at the University of Alabama and are back home in time for the holidays

“Kelsey's babies each had their own uterus, sac, placenta and umbilical cord, giving them extra room to grow and develop,” Davis said in the statement, which was accompanied by a hospital-produced video about Hatcher's pregnancy and birth.

Although the mother is not yet willing to share the full birth story, images from the hospital suggest that at least one birth took place via caesarean section.

With the arrival of the twins, Hatcher and husband Caleb now have their hands full with five children under the age of eight.

Doctors previously confirmed that the newborns will be considered fraternal twins.

Hatcher said she was told the chance of a double pregnancy in a double uterus was one in 50 million.

The last widely known case occurred in Bangladesh in 2019, when Arifa Sultana, then 20, delivered healthy babies 26 days apart.