8 Conjoined Twins : CONJOINED TWINS REUNITED AFTER SURGERY GOES AWRY

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Conjoined Twins, Abby & Brittany Hensel turn 16

CONJOINED TWINS REUNITED AFTER SURGERY GOES AWRY

East Cork, Ireland – There can be no greater joy than the birth of a child. Poets and philosophers have tried to articulate the feeling of parentage but been largely unable to truly capture the feeling. Even with 7 billion people on the planet, all of whom were pregnancy ultrasound

born at some point, there would seem to be less enthusiasm for the process yet it is still an intimate and catalyzing experience for all parents, whether they are on their first child or their fifth. It’s built into us to love the process.

Even when births go awry with disease or deformation the miracle of birth shines through. Though disappointment undoubtedly sets in, parents more often than not take on the challenge of raising their child with aplomb, eventually anyway accepting it as just one of the many challenges of being a parent. Such was undoubtedly the case for Angie and Azzedine Benhaffaf of East Cork, Ireland who were faced with the prospect of a challenging life for their newborn twins, Hassan and Hussein, who were born conjoined. Though more of a challenge than a serious risk, conjoined twins are nonetheless faced with difficulties that many parents would prefer their children not have to suffer, but now the Benhaffaf twins are facing yet another challenge in their shorts lives after being rejoined after being accidently separated by doctors.conjoined twins

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Abby and Brittany Hensel, are the world’s only known dicephalus conjoined twins. Although they are two completely separate people, these accomplished teens share a body and have just two arms and legs between them. Born in 1990, the girls have been brought up in a small, tightly knit community in Minnesota, USA. To their friends and family, they are distinct people with very different personalities, needs, tastes and desires. But to the outside world they are a medical mystery. They can do virtually all the same things as their friends, including playing the piano, riding a bike, swimming and playing softball. The twins and their family have always resisted non-essential medical tests. "The family want to treat them as though they are just like everyone else. Just one child in 50,000 is born connected by some body part to a womb mate. Rarer still is Abby and Britty's particular condition, known as dicephalus: No more than four sets of surviving twins in recorded history have shared an undivided torso and two legs

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Conjoined Twins Abigail and Brittany Hensel

Abigail “Abby” Loraine Hensel and Brittany “Britty” Lee Hensel, Minnesota’s most famous teenagers conjoined twins.

Abby and Brittany, born March 07,1990, are daughters of Patty Hensel, a registered nurse, and Mike Hensel, a carpenter and landscaper who lives on Carver County, Minnesota, United States. The twins have a younger brother named Dakota and a younger sister named Morgan.

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