A delighted mom and dad in Atlanta-US has welcomed their conjoined twin baby boys who share the same the same body and heart have been born yesterday, Dec. 5th.
Asa and Eli Hamby are one-in-a-million who can never be separated - were welcomed into the world at 7.32am through a pre-planned C-section to mom Robin and dad Michael. According to a dedicated 'Hamby Twins' Facebook page are healthy and well.
'Babies are out and so far they are doing amazing,' an 8am post declared about the 9 pounds, 10 ounce children, 'Both babies crying their little eyes out!!'
Hmmmmm...wonders of nature.
Hmmmmm...wonders of nature.
Who are Conjoined Twins?
Conjoined twins are two children physically connected to each other at some point in their bodies.
The lowest odds of this happening are 200,000 to one for every live birth and around 70 percent of conjoined twins are female.
Conjoined twins are always the same sex and the form of conjoined twinning refers directly to where they are joined.
The most most frequent are horacopagus (heart, liver, intestine), omphalopagus (liver, biliary tree, intestine), pygopagus (spine, rectum, genitourinary tract), ischiopagus (pelvis, liver, intestine, genitourinary tract), and craniopagus (brain, meninges). (American Pediatric Surgical Association)
Experts think that conjoined twins come from a single egg that fails to separate.
Around 200 conjoined twins are born each year and around half die before their first birthday.
Read about conjoined twins who have lived beyond their first birthdays...(together for life) after the cut....
Veena and Vani, ten, were born joined at the head, but their parents left them in their local hospital in Hyderabad, India because they could not pay their medical expenses.
Their doctor, Dr Narendra Kumar, a paediatric surgeon, is trying to find an international surgeon who specialises in neurology to perform the operation.
He said: 'It has always been possible to operate on the girls because they both have individual brains.
'The problem lies with the one main blood vessel they share so it does have its risks.'
Laleh and Ladan Bijani caught the attention of the world when at the age of 29 they decided to have surgery to separate.
Their dream was to walk out of Raffles Hospital in Singapore and walk in opposite directions. Sadly they both died after their surgery.
Born in Tehran in 1974, they developed different personalities and made separate groups of friends.
Ladan was the stronger personality and was more talkative, while Laleh was quieter. So when Ladan said she was determined to become a lawyer, Laleh had no choice but to study law with her.
Conjoined twins Shivanath and Shivram Sahu caused quite a stir when they were born in India, with some people in their village worshiping them as divine incarnations.
Shivram said: ‘We don't wish to get separated. We will stay like this even when we grow old. We want to live as we are.’
The pair, who were born in a tiny village near Raipur in central India, share two legs and four arms and work in tandem to get around.
They have stunned doctors with their ability to wash, dress and feed themselves.
A local doctor told the family they were both healthy but he could not separate them.
They are believed to share the same stomach but have independent lungs, hearts and brains.
With practice they have learned to do all their basic daily chores with minimal fuss, including showering, eating, getting dressed and combing each other's hair.
They are able to walk down the stairs of their simple split-level home and even run on all six limbs to play cricket and other games with neighboring children.
Photo credit: AFP/Getty Images/Arkaprava Ghosh/Barcoft India/Hamby Family
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