A Central Valley woman’s years-long infertility battle has 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 told ABC30.
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’s path to motherhood was anything but easy.
In 2021, she was diagnosed with a pituitary tumor and underwent surgery to remove part of it, hoping it would resolve her fertility 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.
“I felt like her children were going to grow up and I was just not going to be experiencing that part of life with her,” she said.
Then, just before starting her fifth round of fertility treatments, Hamel got the news she had been desperately waiting for.
“When I got that pregnancy test, it was the shock of my life,” she said.
Hamel captured the tearful moment she revealed the news to her sister and shared it on TikTok, where the video has touched millions, racking up over 6 million views and 900,000 likes.
“Her pregnancy is a big deal to our whole family,” Mitton said.
Now, the sisters’ lifelong dream is becoming reality.
Mitton is expecting a daughter in October, while Hamel is due with a son in November.
“When I got to hear my son’s heartbeat for the first time, it was something I looked forward to for so long,” Hamel said. “It just felt like every hard month and heartache that I had just slipped away.”
