A US woman with a rare double uterus has given birth twice in two days – after a „one in a million” pregnancy.
People in the delivery room could be heard cheering as Kelsey Hatcher welcomed her first baby Roxi Layla on Tuesday night.
But her second baby, Rebel Laken, was born the following morning – by Caesarean section, as opposed to her older sister.
The girls are described as fraternal twins – with rare separate birthdays.
In total, Ms Hatcher was in labour for 20 hours at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital.
A UAB obstetrician confirmed that the trio were doing well, and told the BBC it was the sort of case that most people in her profession „go through their entire careers and never see”.
Ms Hatcher was told at age 17 she had a double uterus (uterus didelphys) – which the UAB described as a rare congenital anomaly affecting 0.3% of women.
And the odds of becoming pregnant in both uteri – a dicavitary pregnancy – were even slimmer, at „one in a million”, according to the UAB.
Reported cases worldwide are extremely rare. In 2019, a doctor in Bangladesh told the BBC a woman had given birth to twins almost a month after delivering a premature baby in her other uterus.
Ms Hatcher had three previous, healthy pregnancies. This time, she believed herself to be pregnant in only one uterus – until a routine ultrasound revealed there was also a baby in her second.
