A Central Valley woman’syears-long infertility battlehas ended in a viral family triumph after she and her twin sister are now preparing to welcome babies just weeks apart.
Fraternal twins Averi Mitton and Ali Hamel, both critical care nurses at Community Regional Medical Center in downtown Fresno, have always shared life’s milestones.
Now, after years of heartbreak, they are finally sharing the joy of pregnancy together.
“You have a built-in best friend that you can call and you can trust,” Hamel toldABC30.
The sisters said their close bond has followed them from childhood into adulthood, even spilling into their workplace, where patients and doctors often struggle to tell them apart.
“Sometimes our patients get a little mixed up, or the doctors want us to stand side by side and try to tell the difference, and then they fail at it,” Mitton said. “But honestly, it’s super fun.”
But Hamel’spath to motherhoodwas anything but easy.
In 2021, she was diagnosed with a pituitary tumor and underwent surgery to remove part of it, hoping it would resolve herfertility struggles.
“I was able to go in and have my surgery and resect part of that tumor; we thought from there it would be smooth sailing for my fertility journey, and it just wasn’t,” Hamel said.
After years of infertility treatments and a miscarriage in 2025, Hamel feared she would miss out on raising children alongside her sister.
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