Renee Young and Simon Howie have been blessed with a ‘medical miracle’, with the arrival of twin daughters born with separate, identical faces and separate brains in a single skull, and the same body.
The two girls, aptly named Faith and Hope, arrived last Thursday after a short labour in Sydney, Australia.
Faith and Hope are the result of an extremely rare condition known as disrosopus, where a baby is born with two faces.
Fewer than 40 human disrosopus cases are known to have been born. Even fewer survived beyond birth.
The couple said even though the baby only had one body, they still refered to them as their beautiful baby twins.
“I think they’re beautiful and Simon thinks they’re beautiful so really that’s all that matters,” Ms Young said in an interview with an Australian TV show, ‘A Current Affair’.
parents of the twins, Renee Young and Simon Howie
The parents, who already had seven children together prior to the girls’ arrival, discovered the abnormality during pregnancy but decided against an abortion.
“I would say, if I only get two days with the baby, I only get two days with the baby, at least I have some time with it,” Ms Young said.
But the couple are confident they will spend far more time with their newborn girls than that.
“A little luck, a little bit of faith, a bit of hope, hopefully we’ll come out the other side, as long as they’re fighters and they keep fighting, everything will be okay,” Mr Young said. [Read more]
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