US woman with rare uterus condition gives birth to 2 babies in 2 days

A US woman with an uncommon double uterus gave birth twice in two days, following a "one in a million" pregnancy and a total of 20 hours of labour.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, 32-year-old Kelsey Hatcher gave birth to a daughter at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital.

On social media, Hatcher announced the arrival of her "miracle babies" and praised the doctors as "incredible."

The girls have uncommonly different birthdays and are referred to as fraternal twins.

Now that the family was back at home, Hatcher remarked, they could "enjoy the holidays". Her previous expectation was a Christmas deadline.

The mother was informed at the age of 17 that she had uterus didelphys, a rare congenital condition that affects 0.3% of women, according to the UAB.

Furthermore, the UAB reported that the chances of being pregnant in both uteri—a condition known as dicavitary pregnancy—were significantly lower, at "one in a million".

Worldwide, reported incidences are incredibly uncommon. A Bangladeshi physician informed the BBC in 2019 that a woman had given birth to twins about a month after giving birth to an early baby in her other uterus.

Hatcher previously carried three healthy pregnancies. She thought she was pregnant in just one uterus this time, but an ultrasound procedure showed she was also carrying a child in the second.