Two conjoined infants have been separated through an operation successfully last Saturday at a hospital in Dallas. ABC News reported that Owen and Emmett Ezell were born as conjoined twins connected from their breastbone to their hip bone. Before their surgery they shared an intestinal tract and liver.
The babies were only six weeks old at the time of surgery.
Dr. Clair Schwendeman, a neonatologist said to ABC News that he was "cautiously optimistic" for their recovery."They're on some breathing support, but they've stabilized."
"I hope I never have to experience a moment like that again," Jenni Ezell, the twin's mother wrote on her blog. "I didn't know if I would see my babies alive again, if I would see only one, or if I would see them after they had gone to be with their creator."
Ezell says she is looking forward to holding her babies.
"I'm just so happy that they're here and they're alive and thriving. It's the best feeling in the world," Jenni Ezell said according to CBS.
The babies underwent a nine hour operation on August 24th.
"The whole pregnancy was very frightening. I didn't know what would happen. I didn't know if they would make it. It's hard as a mom to know that," said Ezell to CBS.
At this point the babies are stable. The doctor said that twins are very rare and occur in about one in 50,000 to one in 200,000 deliveries.
CBS reported that The Ezells found out the babies were conjoined on March 1 when she was 17 weeks pregnant.
"We didn't think they had a chance, that they weren't going to make it at all," she said to CBS. "So we decided to abort and it was the hardest decision that a mother has to make."
They went to a clinic in Dallas for an abortion when a doctor told them that there might be hope for their unborn twins.
"I could not contain my joy," said Ezell to CBS, who added that since they weren't even looking for a second opinion, she felt that through the whole process God was leading them to "exactly where we needed to be."
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