When it comes to “locked twins”, it is a true clinical entity you should fear the most.
When twins are delivered vaginally and the first twin – twin A – presents as a breech and the second twin – twin B – as a cephalic there is an overhanging risk that the two heads get locked in between, and both babies are stuck. Then you have an obstetrical complication of dimensions – “locked twins”. That is why you always should do a Cesarean on full term twins when twin A presents as a breech and twin B as a cephalic.
In this case of locked twins the delivering mother was brought to the hospital with the body of twin A already delivered. While twin B was alive “fortunately” twin A was dead, which made the procedure a lot much easier:
Twin A was decapitated – twin B was rotated to breech by internal version and extracted on the feet. After that the head of twin A was easily extracted manually with a finger in the mouth.
Live baby pictured is the survivor of this awful event.
How tragic for the parents but praise God one baby survived. Must have been a very nasty procedure for the surgeon to carry out
"Praise God" If there was a god this would never have happened, a decapitated baby and we have to "Praise God" for that..........