Alabama mother with rare double womb gives birth to two babies in two days

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Kelsey Hatcher, 32, delivered one daughter on Tuesday, and a second on Wednesday, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital.

Announcing the arrival of her "miracle babies" on social media, Ms Hatcher hailed the medics as "incredible".
The girls are described as fraternal twins - with rare separate birthdays.

Ms Hatcher said the family was now back at home to "enjoy the holidays". She had previously expected a Christmas due date.

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.

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