Conjoined Twins, Born Of Rare Triplets In Texas, Are Successfully Separated

The birth of Silvia Hernandez and Raul Torres daughters’ in May 2015 was unlike anything the staff of Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas had ever seen… or any hospital for that matter.

Scarlett, Ximena and Catalina Torres were already an extremely rare set of triplets, being conceived without any fertilization drugs, but while Catalina was completely healthy, her two sisters were born conjoined. Experts at Driscoll said that the rare triplets were about one in 50 million, according to Daily Mail.

Conjoined twins only occur in about one in every 200,000 births and sadly the survival rate is not high, according to University of Maryland Medical Center. Fortunately, baby Scarlett and Ximena recently became strong enough to undergo the intensive, 15-hour surgery separation surgery.

Silvia posted on their Siamese Triplets Hernanadez Torres that she even had her daughters baptized before the surgery that was 11 months in the making.

“Babies are out of surgery and doing great they are asleep thank you all for your support and prayers it really means a lot to us and our babies,” Silvia wrote later that night, after the girls were separated and reconstructed. Although Ximena suffered kidney problems shortly after the surgery, her mother assured friends on Facebook that she was doing better hours later.

See more about the Hernandez-Torres triplets in the video below and please SHARE their incredible story with your friends on Facebook!

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