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Woman gives birth to conjoined twin girls with one body but two brains
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An Australian woman has miraculously given birth to conjoined twins with one body and two heads despite doctors initially telling them to terminate the pregnancy, Daily Mail reported yesterday.
Renee Young and her partner Simon Howie, of Tregear in Sydney's west, welcomed their daughters on Thursday six weeks before they were due, according to the report.
The couple, who found out via an ultrasound that the twins they were expecting was in fact one child with two symmetrical faces and two brains connected by the one brain stem, said doctors were shocked by the girls' exceptional progress, said the report.
'They are breathing perfectly on their own and feeding,' Mr Howie told Woman's Day.
Ms Young gave birth to the girls, named Faith and Hope, via an emergency caesarean at Blacktown Hospital last Thursday.
The girls were born with a rare condition called diprosopus, which means they share the same body and vital organs but have their own faces and brains which are connected by only one brain stem.
'Even though there is only one body, we call them our twins. To us, they are our girls and we love them,' Mr Howie said.
They were transferred to the Children's Hospital at Westmead shortly after they were born.
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