*It’s been termed ‘a miracle.’
And no one is more surprised than the new mother.
At age 19 she was told by a doctor that she had the XY chromosomes of a man and she would never conceive because she didn’t have a womb, ovaries or fallopian tubes. Her situation, she was told, was because of a condition called androgen insensitivity syndrome.
Hayley Haynes was horrified by the diagnosis, but then again, there were signs: one, throughout puberty, she had never had her period.
Haynes response to the revelation was, “No man will want me.” But she had an added fear, how was she going to tell her childhood friend, Sam, who later became her husband, the news of her condition. “When they told me I had no womb, I was so confused I felt sick. My biggest fear was never having children,” she said.
“Suddenly a huge piece of my life was missing. I felt like half a woman and was embarrassed. How I was going to tell a guy I was genetically male when I started dating,” she pondered.
But now, nine years later, twin “miracle” babies, Avery and Darcey, are being celebrated by the couple, according to the Daily Mirror.
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