Parents of conjoined twins admit children will ‘have surgeries for rest of their lives’

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This Morning about their struggles conceiving a child and the difficult road ahead for their children.Hannah and Dan Bateson had struggled to conceive a child naturally before giving birth to conjoined twins, a rare phenomenon that only occurs once in every 2.5million pregnancies.And, speaking to Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on ITV’s This Morning programme, the first-time parents introduced viewers to twins Anabelle and Isabelle.The sisters are attached from the chest to the pelvis, and share a bladder, bowel and a fused leg, but have separate hearts.With the twins now eight weeks old, the couple discussed plans for their separation surgery.“It’s a lot of planning, everything’s been slightly delayed.

Unfortunately, as soon as we came home, we all got Covid, so the surgery had been planned for the end of May and it’s all been delayed,” Hannah said.“There’s going to be a lot of very detailed imaging done with the girls and models created.

I do think a lot of it will only be discovered during the surgery.“We just have to have faith that they’ve fought so hard to be here so far, that it will go well.”Hannah, who works for the NHS, admitted that even after the initial surgery is complete, the children’s lives will not be plain sailing.“It’s going to be a very long, different, challenging road for them.

One wee girl might have certain issues, and one might have a different set.“They’ll be going for surgeries probably for the rest of most of their lives.