How are conjoined twins Abby and Brittany doing?

Jan Sebastian 🖐👩‍🦰
4 min readMar 3, 2022

They are 32 years old now and are elementary school teachers.

These two beauties are conjoined twins. Two heads and one torso. They joined for life.

Conjoined twins are very rare. 70% of conjoined twins are girls.

Doctors estimate that only 1 in 200,000 live births result in conjoined twins. More than half of conjoined twin pregnancies result in miscarriage or stillbirth.

Abigail Loraine Hensel and Brittany Lee Hensel were born March 7, 1990, are they have two heads joined to one torso.

The girl's parents and the doctors were shocked who attended to their mother in the labor room because her antenatal scan only showed a child, not two.

They have separate hearts and stomachs, one pair of arms and one pair of legs. Their spines join at the pelvis and they have only one set of organs from the waist down.

Each twin controls one arm and one leg. The twins’ parents, Patti and Mike, had a tough choice to make. Dangerous surgery, or let it be and hope for the best? They decided to not take the risk and chose to leave the babies together.

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