Dan Bateson: Last News

The parents of previously conjoined twins had an extra special reason to celebrate International Women's Day yesterday as their baby girls reached their first birthday. Babies Annabelle and Isabelle Bateson, who are just one in 2.5 million, were born attached to one another on March 8 last year and were separated in September.

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.