![]() The chances of survival fro this type of twins in the 24 hours after childbirth is 1 in 30,000,000. Abby and Brittany have been very lucky to survive. Their birth was a shock to the doctors, but their parents had loved them from the first moment they had set eyes on them. No one expected them to be Siamese twins, in fact, the ultrasound showed only one fetus. ![]() Initially there was a third arm on their back, but this was removed surgically. In reality their two bodies are fused with each other and have, aside from two arms and two legs: They are attached from the torso and are so symmetrical that they look like they have only one body. ![]() Abby and Brittany, a body and two soulsĪbby and Brittany Hensel are Siamese twins born on 7 th March 1990. Thanks to the Internet, many years later, I’ve finally found out, and today this is what I’d like to talk about in this article. I started to leaf through them and read the story of these two Siamese twins who had two heads but only one body. I distinctly remember the pictures in which they were riding their bikes and I was just fascinated by them.Īt the time there were no smartphones and computers were not yet so widespread, so for years I wondered what had become of those two little girls, who were only a few years younger than me. I read about twins for the first time when I was 11 years old. I was at the doctor’s and in the waiting room there were medical and scientific journals.
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