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.
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....