On Christmas Day, a rarely conceived twins are scheduled to be born in Alabama, United States, to a 32-year-old mother of three.
Massage therapist Kelsey Hatcher, who is documenting her story on her Instagram account "doubleuhatchlings," learned she was carrying the 1-in-50-million-chance twins during a routine ultrasound visit in May, Agence France-Presse reported.
Hatcher said she has "uterus didelphys," a rare condition of a person having two uteruses. Rarer still was getting pregnant with fetuses simultaneously growing in each uterus.
Shweta Patel, the obstetrician-gynecologist caring for Hatcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Women and Infants Center, explained in an interview with ABC's Good Morning America that when she ovulated, one egg was deposited in each uterus, and both were fertilized by sperm that reached them.
Hatcher's baby girls are expected to be born minutes, hours, or even days apart, just like a similar pregnancy in Bangladesh in 2019 when Arifa Sultana, then 20, gave birth to healthy twins 26 days apart, Agence France-Presse reported.
Meanwhile, another baby was normally conceived but under a careless circumstance now stressing an unnamed bride-to-be.
The woman recently shared her situation on "Life Uncut," one of Australia's popular online and radio podcasts hosted by actress and author Brittany Hockley and her friend Laura Byrne.
The hosts narrated in a video of the podcast on TikTok that the woman and her fiancé decided to make their secret fantasy a reality before they married.
"I asked my fiancé if he would be willing to have a threesome — a one-off experience for us both before we got married. We both agreed to do this, and I ended up asking a friend of mine if she would be willing," she told the hosts, according to the New York Post.
The woman's gal pal agreed, so they all met up and got drunk before sleeping together. One of the women, unfortunately not the bride, is now pregnant and told the couple that the father is the fiancé.
WITH AFP