A woman from Alabama in the United States with a rare double uterus condition has given birth to two babies in two days.
A 32-year-old Kelsey Hatcher had a girl on Tuesday and another on Wednesday at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital.
Which type of twins are these?
The BBC reports that the girls were described as fraternal twins with rare separate birthdays.
The first baby was delivered vaginally at 19:45 local time on December 19 while the second came by C-section more than 10 hours later at about 06:10 the following morning.
Professor Richard Davis who co-managed the delivery pointed out that each baby had enjoyed ‘extra space to grow and develop’ as each baby had a separate womb to itself unlike in a typical twin pregnancy,
He explained,
“At the end of the day, it was two babies in one belly at the same time. They just had different apartments.”
Davis said the girls could be called fraternal twins- a term used when each baby develops from a separate egg, each fertilized by a separate sperm.
Two womb condition
A 17-year-old Hatcher was told she had a double uterus condition (uterus didelphys), which is a rare condition that affects 0.3% of women. A routine ultrasound revealed there was also a baby in her second.
The odds of becoming pregnant in both uteri are one in a million.
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