While many women around the world give birth to twins, this story is remarkably different and short of miraculous as she was born with no womb in the first place.
At first glance, Hayley Haynes didn't look different from other women her age. In fact, she believed the same way too until she realized that even she's already 19, she didn't have her period yet. Usually, girls start to experience it around 10 to 12 years old. Curious to find out why, she went to a doctor and received devastating news: she didn't have a reproductive organ.
According to a series of tests, she had the XY chromosome, which meant she was male genetically. It explained why she didn't have her fallopian tubes, ovaries, and womb. Although the idea that she was "male" was heartbreaking and even embarrassing, what worried her the most was the idea that she might never have children.
However, that definitely changed when she certainly gave birth to a set of twins, Darcey and Avery, together with her husband Sam.
How is that even possible? The answer is science. By around 2007, a doctor discovered something in one of her routine scans. She actually had a womb, but it's just tiny that it's usually missed in the previous examinations.
It meant that she's a possible candidate for an IVF (in vitro fertilization), but she needed to grow her womb first. The doctor then placed her in a closely monitored hormone therapy.
Because NHS Trust didn't cover for her IVF treatment, she and her husband had to spend over 50% of their savings, and thus only had a single shot to get pregnant.
She received eggs from an anonymous donor, of which only 2 were viable, and sperm from Sam. Surprisingly, she tested positive after a few weeks of treatment and that two of these eggs became successful. She therefore carried a set of non-identical twins.
