[Susan]

Then again, that's in the UK. Who knows what their country's rules and laws are. I'm guessing now it's world news though, they would never get away with doing something like that.

[Faline]

Quite cool

[LadyCPlum]

It's almost weird to think of them as "twins", it's more like....one baby, two heads....since there are no double sets of vital organs, correct? And if they do survive, what sort of life do they have ahead of them? The Hensell girls seem pretty well-adjusted, but what about love, marriage, the possibility of bearing children in the future.....

[CrunchyCripple]

Originally Posted by LadyCPlum ↗

It's almost weird to think of them as "twins", it's more like....one baby, two heads....since there are no double sets of vital organs, correct?

The brain is the individual. Two brains, two people.

[divreaper]

Allah that

[Kelseecat65]

poor babies

[Shakey]

Great! Then you would have 2 mouths bitching at you.

[gatagato]

Update

Conjoined twins born in India with one body, two heads die after 20 days

The conjoined twins born with one body and two heads in India have died after battling to survive for a remarkable 20 days.

And tragically their mother Urmila Sharma, 28, decided she couldn't bear to meet her babies at all.

The father Subhash, 32, said: “The news did not come as a shock but we were still devastated. They were very special babies.”

“Even though doctors had told us that they had minimal chances of survival we hoped they'd live,” he said.

“I wanted to raise them and for our daughter to have sisters but God had a different plan. The fact they survived for 20 days was even a miracle.”

The conjoined twins were born by C-section at Cygnus JK Hindu Hospital in Sonipat, Haryana, in northern India, on March 13th.


They weighed 7 pounds 7 ounces, but were born with one body, two heads, two necks, two spines and two separate esophagi and tracheas. But they had only one heart, stomach and lung each.

Dr. Shikha Malik, who delivered the babies, said at first that while one baby was sleeping, one was crying.

After two days the babies were transferred to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital (AIIMS) in Delhi, and were under close observation in the neonatal intensive care unit by some of the country’s top doctors.

“In the end their heart was too weak,” Dr. Minu Bajpai, pediatric surgeon in charge of the babies while they were at AIIMS, said.

“They suffered respiratory problems from the moment they arrived with us, and they just seemed to deteriorate as each day passed. In the end it was their heart that gave up and they died of heart failure.”

Mother Urmila, who already has a three-year-old daughter Shalini, chose to not meet her babies while they were alive. After being discharged from hospital she went home to recover.


Her husband Subhash said she is devastated.

“I went to Delhi last week and brought my daughters' bodies home on April 2. My wife is still trying to cope with the loss,” he said.

“She could not take them in her arms and cuddle them when they were alive. She had accepted their fate but being a mother it's still hard to accept their death.”

“She's very emotional and she's crying inconsolably. She wanted her babies to live so much and now they're gone she is very lost.”

He said that they'd both struggled to come to terms with their daughters' extraordinary condition.

“It was very painful for both my wife and I to see them battling with life,” he said. “Now I feel they have been set free. I buried them myself, according to Hindu rituals, but my wife couldn't face it.”


Now, the family will try and pick up the piece of the sadness of the last month.

He added: “We can never forget our babies; they will always be in our hearts. But we hope that our next baby will be born normal.”

“I will make sure that if my wife gets pregnant again, she gets proper medical assistance throughout the pregnancy so that we're more prepared next time.”

Dr. Shikha said, “It's very emotional for me that the babies have died because I had delivered them.”

“I was in touch with the doctors at AIIMS continuously and it didn't look good for them for a while,” he said.

“Although we suspected they wouldn't survive because of their medical complexities we were still hoping we could save them.”

“I was shocked they had lasted longer than 24 hours never mind surviving for 20 days,” he said. “I hope the parents can recover from this sadness and pick themselves up again.”



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/worl...#ixzz2yPQDM7IL

Not sure this is good or bad news, how sad, and poor parents ...

[winvens]

I was rooting for these kids, didn't know about the lung and heart issues. Their poor family, esp. the mother. *smh*

[pissypantsandpuke]

OUCH!!! Imagine TWO heads coming out at once....