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Kelsey Hatcher, a 32-year-old mom of three was born with a rare uterine anomaly called uterus didelphys, or two uteruses. However, she was not diagnosed with the condition until last spring, when she discovered she was pregnant – in each uterus.

Hatcher said her husband almost didn’t believe her.

“He said: ‘You’re lying,’ I said: ‘No, I’m not,” Hatcher told NBC News.

Uterus didelphys affects about 0.3% of women. The abnormality forms in the female embryo very early in development, around eight weeks gestation, according to fertility researchers.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Uh, isn't that going to be a major complication for all parties involved? For pregnancy and delivery I mean.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

her father and brother should be able to handle it...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

They're the same person

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's Alabama so they won't be getting help either way

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Alabama allows medically necessary abortions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

https://www.abortionfinder.org/abortion-guides-by-state/abortion-in-alabama They have some of the strictest definitions out there, so no, not really

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Depends on how well formed the uteruses are. If they're both healthy, it should be fine. You would be amazed at the ways a person's body changes to accommodate pregnancies. Idk why this would be any more risky than, say, twins or triplets.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At the Science and Industry museum in Chicago they have/had step by step see-through models of a woman's guts before, during, and after pregnancy.

I took a date there and we had a great time. Arrived at that exhibit and we just stood there for a minute, witnessing how jumbled up the post pregnancy innards were.

I said, "I'll never do that to you."

She said, "Thank you."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Haha yeah, pregnancy can be amazing from an objective "wow, humans can really do that, huh?" perspective and also horrifying from a subjective "I'm sorry, you said my intestines are where??" perspective 🥲

As someone who decided to be pregnant for the first time right now, I definitely have a healthy heaping of both—at the same time even! It's a wild and sometimes darkly hilarious experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm thinking delivery has got to be way more complicated? The hormones that trigger childbirth might trigger both? But maybe with a special c section everything will be fine?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Planned induction could also be a way they could go. Induce one, then the other, or else c-section for one or both as mom prefers and doctors feel is safe. Maybe slightly more complicated, but not necessarily more complicated than normal birth. Birth can get pretty wild anyway, or it can go super smooth! Hoping for the best for this family, especially being in Alabama

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which side do you think is going to win?

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Those poor babies... Being born to Alabamaians in Alabama.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

At least they don't have to share a ~~room~~ womb

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For med school students who waste time here. A question.

These are not technically twins, right?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not a med school student but fraternal twins come from 2 separate zygotes - 2 different eggs and 2 different sperm cells. If you disregard the whole 'two uteri' aspect they'd be twins, fraternal twins, dizygotic. It's all two eggs being fertilized at the same time, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It's all two eggs being fertilized at the same time, right?

According to the article, they didn't need to be but likely were. Makes sense, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Though would they end up being delivered at the same time?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Basically, they are only twins if they are born on the same day, because the concept of fraternal twins is basically being born from the same woman on the same day. Identical twins with the split egg after insemination are the only real "twins" biologically (except clones, generally illegal). There's also roman twins, but those are pretty rare, because it involves a woman releasing two eggs but having intercourse with two different men in a roughly 48 hour time period, resulting in half brother fraternal twins.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Oh Vinny. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

Wombo combo

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My ex has a bifurcated uterus. Uteruses can be weird.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

My body tries to grow extra uteruses, but can only make the inside bits, and attaches those bits wherever it wants to.

Gotta love endometriosis.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

This is wild.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

uterus

noun

uter·​us ˈyü-tə-rəs 

ˈyü-trəs

plural uteri ˈyü-tə-ˌrī  or uteruses

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uterus

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/uteruses

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Why does it matter? The plural was clear so uteruses did the job

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Five kids, great for the climate!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Bit good for the cult

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does this mean she has two vaginas? Will she give birth out of seperate vaginas to each baby?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Seeing as she's had 3 kids already, it'd be silly to think she would have 2 vaginas when she was only recently diagnosed as having 2 uterus.