Conjoined twins who had one body and two faces in Australia die

After 3 weeks of being brought into this world via a cesarean section, the conjoined twins who suffered the from diprosopus, a condition where conjoined twins are born with one body but two separate faces and brains finally die.

According to Daily News NY;

“Our precious baby girls, who gave it a good fight, are headed to the arms of the angels who will give them their wings,” parents Renee Young and Simon Howie said in a statement released to NineMsn. The Sydney parents found out about the twins’ rare condition 19 weeks in the pregnancy. Doctors advised them to terminate the pregnancy, but abortion was not an option.

“If I only get two days with the baby, I only get two days with the baby, at least I have some time with it,” Young told Australia’s ‘A Current Affair.’

Faith and Hope were delivered by emergency Caesarean on May 8 and weighed just over 4 pounds. They lived for almost three weeks. Before their death, the parents said their little girls had developed distinct personalities.

“Faith tends to cry a little more, while Hope takes after her mum and likes to sleep a lot,” Young told Women’s Day. “Faith blows little bubbles and loves sucking her thumb but Hope prefers the dummy [pacifier].”

Source: Daily News NY