The parents of previously conjoined twins had an extra special reason to celebrate International Women's Day yesterday as their baby girls reached their first birthday. Babies Annabelle and Isabelle Bateson, who are just one in 2.5 million, were born attached to one another on March 8 last year and were separated in September.
The twins from Northern Ireland were joined from the chest to the pelvis and shared a bladder, bowel and a fused leg but had separate hearts. Parents Hannah and Dan Bateson, from Toomebridge first discovered their daughters were conjoined twins in a 12-week scan last year, Wales Online reports.
The couple confirmed in mid-September last year their girls had been safely separated. The surgery had originally been planned for the end of the May but was put back due to illness and was further delayed because of staff shortages over the summer months.
