32-year old mother from Lava Pies in San Cristóbal, Yudis Alcántara gave birth on Friday, 24 May 2019 to Siamese twins at the La Altagracia Public Maternity Hospital in Santo Domingo. The babies were born weighing nine pounds at 38 weeks by C-section. This is the mother’s first birth.
As reported by the hospital, the girls have individual heads, hearts and lungs, but they share the spleen, liver, genitals and the digestive tract, including the intestines. That is, while the babies are two little bodies on the top, their bottom is shared.
The hospital says that the newborns are hooked to a respiratory oxygen machine. They need to be able to breathe by themselves and overcome their respiratory difficulties and then a possible operation to separate them would be discussed.
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27 May 2019