US woman expecting twins in both of her uncommon multiple uteruses
With a peculiar twist, it’s double trouble: an Alabama woman, 32, who was born with two uteruses, is currently carrying a child in both of them. Documenting her journey on Instagram under the handle “doubleuhatchlings,” Kelsey Hatcher has known since she was 17 that she suffers from “uterus didelphys,” a rare disorder that causes a person to have two uteruses and is estimated to affect approximately 0.3 percent of females.
The massage therapist and mother of three discovered she was carrying twins this time around and that a fetus was inside each of her at a routine eight-week ultrasound check in May.
“We were quite taken aback! We laughed a lot throughout that first ultrasound,” she posted on Instagram.
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According to Shweta Patel, the obstetrician-gynecologist who is caring for Hatcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Women & Infants Center, “most likely what happened is that she ovulated separately and had one egg come down each fallopian tube, meaning coming down on each side of the uterus, and then sperm traveled up on each separate uterus and fertilization occurred separately” “Good Morning America.”
Hatcher’s previous three children were all born healthy and at full term, despite the fact that women who have a double uterus frequently experience pregnancy problems.
In 2019, Arifa Sultana, then 20 years old, gave birth to healthy twins 26 days apart in Bangladesh, which is the last recorded instance of a pregnancy in both uteruses. Hatcher claimed she was informed the odds were 1 in 50 million. With a Christmas due date, Hatcher hopes to go into labor and deliver both Baby A and Baby B—or “the girlies” as she lovingly refers to them—naturally and with medication. It is stated that both are “thriving.”
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But the uteruses will contract at various periods, which might be minutes, hours, or even days apart. Based on how things work out, Kelsey and her husband Caleb Hatcher are aware that one or both uteruses may require cesarean procedures.
“They like to say, ‘You are aware, we’ve never had a situation like this before, this is a new case for us totally,’ at every doctor’s appointment.However, I think I’m in the best hospital in Alabama for the circumstances and I have the best team for this,” the woman remarked.
