A cancer survivor had her ovaries removed. 2 years later, she gave birth to identical twins.
With a 6-month-old baby at home and hoping for more down the line, Battista and her husband, Robert, felt like"we were just starting our life together, and we get this shocking news," she told NBC's Kate Snow in a March 20 segment on the TODAY show.
"The ovaries and the uterus function very independently of each other," Goldman explained."In Shelly’s case, because she did not have ovaries producing hormones, we were able to provide her the hormones necessary for pregnancy." But they were even more pleasantly surprised to learn at their first ultrasound appointment that the Battistas would be having not one, but two
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