When expectant parents Laurilin Celadilla Marte, both 24, and Marino Camacho went to the hospital for their scheduled c-section, they knew they would be having twins. They didn’t, however, know those twins were conjoined…
“In that moment when the doctor had them in his hands, he said, ‘Blessed be God, they are Siamese twins,” said Laurilin. “I said, ‘well, God, they are yours.'” Despite the surprise, the parents instantly fell in love with their beautiful babies and were petrified to hear that the smaller baby, Ballenie, had a congenital heart defect that threatened both twins.
“The girls were worse every day,” dad Marino said after a cardiologist warned him they would lose both girls if they didn’t take them to a better hospital. Luckily, the Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital in New York head about the babies and offered to separate them.
“Things went really well,” said Dr. Samir Pandya. “We are very happy with how everything was choreographed and coordinated and worked out in the operating room… Will they be able to walk? We’ll have to see. Rime will give us a better picture.”
“It was always a dream. I would pray and dream that it would come together and now it has. I want to see my daughters healthy and independent,” Laurilin said. ” I want them to go to school, for them to play freely. Even if it’s in a wheelchair, anything, but with their freedom and independence.”
Watch the entire video below to see what these incredible babies went through in order to be separated.
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[Featured image: Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital]
Conjoined Twins Were Successfully Separated After 21-Hour Surgery is an article from: LifeDaily