Photo By David Beasley
ATLANTA - Conjoined twin boys,
sharing a heart, torso, arms and legs, were born early on Thursday in an
Atlanta hospital, marking a medical rarity as many such babies do not
survive delivery.
Relatives cheered their arrival
at Northside Hospital, where the twins were delivered at 7:32 a.m. local
time (EST), according to a hospital spokeswoman.
"Babies are out and so far they
are doing AMAZING. Both babies crying their little eyes out!!!" Emily
Berdeaux, a relative, wrote on a family Facebook page early on Thursday.
The twins, who share a heart and
circulatory system, will not be separated, according to social media
posts by their parents, Michael and Robin Hamby of Alabama.
"I need a lot of prayer for my boys," said Michael Hamby on a Facebook video posted on Wednesday night.
Conjoined twins occur once every
200,000 live births and most do not survive, according to the University
of Maryland Medical Center. About 40 to 60 percent are stillborn, and
about 35 percent live only one day.
The newborn brothers were given
medication for their joint heart and intubated to help them breathe,
Michael Hamby told the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer newspaper on Thursday
morning.
(Editing by Letitia Stein and Gunna Dickson)
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