Kelsey Hatcher, an Alabama woman who became pregnant in her two wombs, welcomed her babies.
“Our miracle babies are born!” Kelsey (@doubleuhatchlings) shared a post on Instagram on Friday.
Originally for Christmas, the twins, Roxi Layla and Rebel Laken, were also born on two different days, Kelsey said.
After 39 weeks of pregnancy, the twins “decided that they were statistically rare enough that they should go ahead and have their own birthdays,” she wrote.
Roxi was born on December 19 at 7:49 p.m., and the next day at 6:09 a.m. she was “joined” by her sister Rebel
The twins were born at the UAB Women & Infants Center in Birmingham, Alabama, according to the release.
“Our team at UAB was amazing and we couldn’t have had a better experience!” Kelsey wrote. “I can’t wait to share the whole birth story with you!”
The post also included a first look at the twins, who were photographed not only with Kelsey and her husband Caleb, but also with UAB staff who helped the couple welcome their girls.
Now at home with their new additions, the couple — who are already parents to three children, ages 7, 4 and 2 — will take time to “bond, recover and enjoy the holidays,” Kelsey added.
A woman with a double uterus gave birth at 22 weeks: the baby is a “real miracle”
Last month, during an interview with local NBC affiliate WVTM 13, the mom of five recalled the moment in the spring when she and Caleb learned she was carrying a baby in each of her wombs during her first ultrasound.
“I said, ‘Well, there’s those two.’ AND [my husband] said: ‘You are lying.’ I said, ‘No, I’m not,'” said Kelsey, who was born with not only two uteruses, but two cervixes.
A double uterus is a rare condition that is “present at birth” in some women, according to the Mayo Clinic. This happens when the two small tubes that normally grow and fuse together to form the uterus as the fetus grows, instead “don’t fuse completely” and “each develops into a separate organ”.
Although the uterus can sometimes share the cervix — the opening to the vagina — “at other times, each uterus has its own cervix,” according to the Mayo Clinic.
dr. Shweta Patel, an OB/GYN, also spoke to WVTM 13, telling the paper that Kelsey’s pregnancy is “very, very rare.”
“Gynecologists go their entire careers without seeing anything like this,” she added.
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dr. UAB’s Richard Davis, who specializes in high-risk pregnancies, told the paper that “maybe three out of 1,000 women could” have a double cervix, or double uterus.
“And then the probability of having a twin in each horn is really crazy,” he added.
And while they are “grateful” for the additions to their family, Kelsey and Caleb told WVTM 13 that Roxi and Rebel are their last.
As Kelsey said, “This is definitely going to be the end.”
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