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The sippy cups. Kelsey Hatcher and her husband, Caleb, have a pretty busy life. They both work and they have three children ages seven, four, and two. They thought their family was complete until Kelsey realized she was pregnant last spring. When she went for her first ultrasound appointment, she got some information she needed to pass along to Caleb.

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I said, Well, there's two of them in there. He said, You're lying. I said, No, I'm not.

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But what shocked her obstetrician wasn't the fact that she was having two babies, but that she has a double uterus, two functional uterine, and she has a baby in each of them.

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Very, very rare. Yes, OB/GYNs go their whole careers without seeing anything like this.

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Kelsey has two uterine, each with its own cervix. This is what a normal uterus looks like, and this is what Kelsey's looks like. She's known about her physical oddity for a while, and she knows it's pretty rare. That's why her pregnancy is considered high risk. Uab's Dr. Richard Davis specializes in high risk pregnancies.

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A double cervix, a double uterus is way under 1%, maybe 3 per 1,000 women might have that. Then the probability of having a twin in each horn is really crazy.

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The rarity of this pregnancy is getting a lot of attention. Kelsey and the babies will even be the topic of a case study.

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I'm typically not one that likes a lot of attention and doesn't want people to be talking about all my stuff. So to be this rare and out there, I'm like, Oh, my gosh.

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There's a lot. The babies are both girls and they're going exactly as they should. The tricky part will be when both, or maybe just one, decides to make their entrance into the world.

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When shes those into labor, if she does, then we will have to monitor each uterus and see which one's contracting. And if they're doing almost the same or they're different.

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So there's a good chance each uterus could start contractions at different times. The sisters could be born hours, days, or weeks apart. So with each baby having their own separate uterus and placenta, are they twins or simply siblings?

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I think medically, this is such a rare thing that we don't have a better way of describing it besides still calling them twins.

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No matter what you call them in a few weeks the hatchers will have five children under the age of eight. These your last two?

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Yes. The third one was our last one. But we're grateful for the blessings for sure, but this will definitely be the end.

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