A woman who was born with two wombs has become pregnant in both wombs in a “one in 50 million miracle” – and the babies are expected to be born at Christmas.
Kelsey Hatcher, a 32-year-old massage therapist from Alabama, discovered at age 17 that she had a “uterus didelphys.”
This rare condition causes a double uterus in women and affects about 0.3% of women.
Kelsey discovered the unexpected double pregnancy during an eight-week ultrasound in May.
Kelsey and her husband Caleb are now prepared for a C-section for at least one of the babies – or both.
The mother of three documents her story on the Instagram account ‘doubleuhatchlings’.
She wrote: “We were a little overwhelmed! We laughed a lot at that first ultrasound.”
Kelsey hopes to give birth naturally to Baby A and Baby B, whom she calls “the girls.”
Both of Kelsey’s uteruses contract at different times, which could be minutes, hours, or even days apart.
She wrote: “They like to tell me every time I go to the doctor: ‘You know, we’ve never had a situation like this before, this is a new case for us’… But I feel like I have the best team for that.” I’m in “This situation and the best hospital in Alabama if I know what’s going on.”
So what’s behind the Christmas miracle pregnancy?
Shweta Patel, the obstetrician-gynecologist who cares for Hatcher at the University of Alabama Women & Infants Center at Birmingham, speculated on ABC’s “Good Morning America” about the incredible journey of husband Caleb’s lucky sperm.
She said: “What most likely happened is that she ovulated individually and an egg went down each fallopian tube, meaning it came down each side of the uterus, and the sperm then traveled to each individual uterus and that the fertilization took place separately.” ‘
Although women with a double uterus often face pregnancy complications, all three of Hatcher’s previous children were born healthy.
Hatcher said the chance of becoming pregnant in both wombs is only 1 in 50 million.
Earlier this year, another mother of two gave birth to twins, conceiving one child through IVF in one womb and the other naturally.
Madeline Kaklikos, 24, and her husband Jon, 27, welcomed their miracle twins Cole and Nate in February after ten rounds of fertility treatments over three years.
Source: Metro
Source: Metro
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