A doctor panics when he discovers that a woman is expecting a baby with twin girls in this condition: Find out what she does then

In 2012, when Shellie Tucker was 20 weeks pregnant, she found out she was expecting twin girls – conjoined twins.

“The doctor said, ‘You’re going to have twins’, and my heart stopped beating.

And then he added, ‘I think they’re conjoined,’ and my heart stopped again,” Shellie told the news.

The twins indeed shared the same body organs.

The doctor, who specializes in high-risk pregnancies, then explained to Shellie that her children would probably not endure a separation.

According to the news, “The average survival rate for Siamese children is about 5-25%, and 75% of separation operations even with the survival of at least one of the two children”.

The specialist advised Shellie to get rid of them.

“But as he was telling me this, I could feel my little girls’ feet kicking around in my stomach, and I knew that was not an option for me,” Shellie explained.

Shellie then made the choice to keep the babies, baptized Allison and Amelia.

After receiving a second medical opinion at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, it was decided that the two girls could survive a separation.

When Shellie gave birth, she was blown away by her two little girls.

At the age of 9 months, Amelia and Allison were then separated by 40 doctors, who took turns to carry out an operation lasting more than 7 hours.

The operation was a success.

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