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Rare Identical Girl Triplets, Two Conjoined, Born To Texas Couple
Kathleen Lees
First Posted: May 19, 2015 12:27 PM EDT
A set of rare identical triplets were born in south Texas hospital, including two that were conjoined at the pelvis.
Parents Sylvia Hernandez and Roel Torrez called the girls a miracle sent from God, the three named Catalina, Ximena and Scarlett. They were delivered Saturday by C-Section, just one day shy of 34 weeks. All of the babies weighed in at just about 4 pounds, 11 ounces.
"God chose us to take care of these babies," Torrez said in a statement released by the hospital. "We put our faith in God's hands first and everything will be alright."
The rare set were not discovered at the initial scan. At first, the couple believed they were having a set of boy and girl twins. However, when Hernadez fell ill, medics soon discovered the third baby.
"The truth is I cried, not because of how the babies would look because we knew we would do our best to give them the best and most productive life possible," she wrote on her Facebook page. "I cried because the doctor said we had to understand and accept the fact that once they were born they could die."
After weeks of time in the hospital and following delivery, doctors performed the necessary emergency surgery on Ximena and Scarlett, the conjoined twins, to separate the two from their belly button up. They have separate legs and separate bladders, but part of their intestines and abdominal wall are attached.
In six months time, the doctors will likely attempt to separate them.
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First Posted: May 19, 2015 12:27 PM EDT
A set of rare identical triplets were born in south Texas hospital, including two that were conjoined at the pelvis.
Parents Sylvia Hernandez and Roel Torrez called the girls a miracle sent from God, the three named Catalina, Ximena and Scarlett. They were delivered Saturday by C-Section, just one day shy of 34 weeks. All of the babies weighed in at just about 4 pounds, 11 ounces.
"God chose us to take care of these babies," Torrez said in a statement released by the hospital. "We put our faith in God's hands first and everything will be alright."
The rare set were not discovered at the initial scan. At first, the couple believed they were having a set of boy and girl twins. However, when Hernadez fell ill, medics soon discovered the third baby.
"The truth is I cried, not because of how the babies would look because we knew we would do our best to give them the best and most productive life possible," she wrote on her Facebook page. "I cried because the doctor said we had to understand and accept the fact that once they were born they could die."
After weeks of time in the hospital and following delivery, doctors performed the necessary emergency surgery on Ximena and Scarlett, the conjoined twins, to separate the two from their belly button up. They have separate legs and separate bladders, but part of their intestines and abdominal wall are attached.
In six months time, the doctors will likely attempt to separate them.
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