American woman with double uterus gives birth to two children

American woman with double uterus gives birth to two children

An American woman with two uteri and two cervixes has given birth to two babies after carrying one of them in each uterus.

Kelsey Hatcher of Dora, about 45 kilometres north-west of Birmingham, Alabama gave birth to two girls on Wednesday and Thursday after a combined 20 hours of labor.

Hatcher was diagnosed with a double uterus, also called uterus didelphys, when she was 17.

The rare congenital condition occurs in 0.3 per cent of women, according to a report published by the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

There is an “estimated one-in-a-million chance” of carrying a baby in both uteri, also known as a dicavitary pregnancy, the report says.

The older child, Roxi, was born on Tuesday, and Rebel arrived on Wednesday.

Hatcher told WVTM-TV that both she and the newborns are healthy.

Her husband, Caleb, was with her in the hospital, she said.

“That was our first moment of just us four together,” Hatcher said.

“And really getting to breathe that in and be in the moment and look at the girls together.”