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Jane Corscadden

NI parents give update a week on from conjoined twins' successful separation surgery

The parents of "miracle" conjoined twins have provided an update one week on from a successful separation surgery.

Babies Annabelle and Isabelle Bateson, who are just one in 2.5 million, were born safely six months ago. Parents Hannah and Dan Bateson, from Toomebridge in Co Antrim, first found out their daughters were conjoined twins in a 12-week scan last year.

The babies were attached from the chest to the pelvis and shared a bladder, bowel and a fused leg - but had separate hearts.

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