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Lauren Harte

NI parents share first photo of formerly conjoined twins after successful separation surgery

The parents of formerly conjoined twins have provided an update on their baby girls, saying there is "light at the end of the tunnel" after their successful separation surgery.

Babies Annabelle and Isabelle Bateson, who are just one in 2.5 million, were born safely in March. 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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