The miracle of Christmas. Kelsey Hatcher, a mother with a double uterus, gave birth to two little girls. But if the first little girl was born this Tuesday, December 19, her little sister is, she arrived the next day at the University Hospital of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB), in a press release published this Friday. So, after giving birth, this December 19 by vaginal routeof her first child, “Kelsey was having contractions for baby B while she was breastfeeding baby A”, say the doctors. A cesarean section is initiated for the second granddaughter, born ten hours after her big sister. The two children as well as the mother are doing well, said the maternity medical teams.
“1 in a million chance” of this type of pregnancy occurring
On his Instagram account, called “ doubleuhatchlings » (double birth), the 32-year-old young mother recounts her incredible pregnancy journey. And obviously, his last publication, to announce the arrival of his “miracle babies”, is imbued with emotion. She particularly congratulated her “incredible” midwives, specify that now back at home with her little wonders, she counted ” enjoy the holidays “.
kelsey is affected by a malformation, called didelphus uterus, characterized by the presence of two uteri and two independent cervixes separated by a septum, which affects approximately 2% of women. As for the chances of carrying a baby in each uterus at the same time, they are approximately “1 in a million”, explained to ABC News a specialist.
The first case recorded in 1927
As explained The worldthis type of pregnancy was first described in 1927. To date, there are only approximately 20 cases of twin pregnancy on didelphus uterus in the medical literature. In 2017 in particular, a 30-year-old woman with a didelph uterus gave birth – naturally – to two fetuses at the 34th week of pregnancy. Even more incredible is the case of a triple pregnancy in a woman with a didelphic uterus. To date, there are only 5 cases published in the medical literature. The first was reported in 1981, the following in 1997, 2003, 2010 and 2014. Not all of the triplets survived. Finally, in Bangladesh, in 2019, a certain Arifa Sultana, then aged 20, gave birth to two healthy babies 26 days apart.
Parents of a large family, Kesley and her husband Caleb will now be at the head, somewhat unwillingly, of a real tribe. The parents, who live in the state of Alabama, already have three children aged 7, 4 and 2 years old.
2023-12-24 10:32:28
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