Youngest ever conjoined twins defy all odds after miracle separation operation

According to the Swiss media, the doctors earlier had chose to separate the two children after they are several months old.

A ground-breaking surgery successfully separated eight-day old identical twins – the world’s youngest pair of conjoined twins to be surgically disjointed.

Newspaper Le Matin Dimanche reports that they were born two months prematurely.

But a few days after the babies’ condition deteriorated.

One twin started suffering from hypertension (abnormally high blood pressure) while the other developed the opposite condition, hypotension.

Paying tribute to his staff, head of paediatric surgery Steffen Berger said: “The ideal teamwork of physicians and nursing personnel from various disciplines were the key to success here”. So, they thought that the best solution would be to attempt surgery despite the babies’ incredibly young age.

The pair is among only about 200 separated conjoined twins now living around the globe, it said. Also known as Siamese twins, coinjoined siblings are seen in about one in 2000,000 live births.

The twins who are named Maya and Lydia together weighed 2.2 kg and were born along with a triplet at the Inselspital hospital in Bern. Sadly, half of these babies are born dead, while the chances of survival after birth are incredibly low – between five and 25 percent. But it wasn’t easy.

He expressed happiness that both the children and the parents are doing well. But when doctors said there is a possibility of separating them then they made a decision to let them live as they have no rights to kill them.

Lydia and Maya were joined at the liver when they were born in December, with another sister, eight weeks premature. Wildhaber said the team was prepared for a scenario wherein they can not save both babies but the ground-breaking surgery proved successful. “It was magnificent! I will remember it my entire career”, Barbara added.

“We’re delighted”, the father told the SonntagsZeitung.