More: Michigan conjoined twins beat the odds the moment they were born: Here's how rare they are A concerning ultrasound Their mom, Alyson Irwin, smiled, and said, "They're doing great."īut neither Alyson nor Phil could ever have dreamed they'd be able to say that about their twins when they first discovered they were conjoined in late February 2019. "Other than taking our word for it, you would almost never know that they were conjoined," said their father, Phil Irwin on a warm mid-September day. She looked up at her big sister, Kennedy, who was running across the lawn, and said, "Sissy." Just a few weeks after the first-of-its-kind surgery, Sarabeth sucked on a pacifier, leaning against her father's leg on a blanket in the grass outside their house in Petersburg, about 10 miles north of the Ohio state line in Monroe County.Īmelia spotted a cellphone on the ground and began to crawl for it. Two teams of surgeons - one for each girl - and more than a dozen other medical staff spent months planning how they'd safely separate Sarabeth and Amelia, giving them a chance at independent lives. Few survive delivery, and even fewer live long enough to be discharged from the hospital and go home, like Sarabeth and Amelia did. "'They're so rare," said Treadwell, explaining that just 1 in 100,000 to 1 in 250,000 pregnancies involve conjoined twins. Mott Children's Hospital, becoming the first known set of conjoined twins to be successfully separated in Michigan. Marcie Treadwell, director of Michigan Medicine’s Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment Center.Ībout 14 months later, the twins returned to Ann Arbor, where they underwent an 11-hour surgery Aug.
June 11, 2019.Ĭonjoined from their chests to their bellies, the identical twins' arms wrapped around one another as they were carefully lifted from their mother's womb at Michigan Medicine's Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, said Dr. Sarabeth and Amelia Irwin were locked in an embrace when they were born at 11:06 a.m. Watch Video: Doctors Separate Conjoined Twins at Michigan Medicine C.S.
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