Conjoined twins born in Georgia have died

Brittany Crafton holds her twin boys, Chance and Chandler, following their Monday, November 9, 2015 birth.

The twin boys, who share a heart and liver, were delivered by C-section and are in the neonatal intensive care unit at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia, which adjoins Georgia Regents, according to the release.

They are in critical condition after being born with a shared heart. She said during her second ultrasound, the sonogram revealed the babies were sharing more than just a brotherly bond: they shared a heart. “How could you do something to two little babies, just looking like they’re hugging each other?”

Chance and Chandler were born with two heads, four arms, four legs, one heart and one liver.

Last week, FOX 5 caught up with their mother, 26-year-old Brittany Crafton. “At my first appointment when I first found out I was pregnant my sonogram only showed one baby”.

Dr. Paul Browne, section chief of maternal-fetal medicine at Georgia Regents University and Health System, said that delivering the twins has been very trying. Female conjoined twins, which account for about 70 percent of conjoined twins, have a higher survival rate and are three times as likely as males to be born alive. The report goes on to say that conjoined twin girls are more likely to survive that male conjoined twins. “We believe it will continue to function well after the delivery”.

“We wish they had separate hearts because then it would be easier to make a plan on helping them be separated”.