I was very touched by the story of Marta and Nuria, the siamese joined by the abdomen that were separated successfully by a group of specialists at the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona.
The girls were joined by the abdomen. They shared liver throughout pregnancy and until six months after they were born, but for a month, after the operation, they are learning to live separately.
The complicity between these two girls has to be very intense. The mother says that when one turns her back on the other, she starts crying. Normal, considering that since they were conceived they lived face to face. His gestures and looks reflect a special rapport.
Siamese are a rare case of twins whose name is due to Siam twins who were born together, coincidentally also by the liver.
It is given in one in 200 thousand births when twins are born united by some part of their bodies.
Why this abnormality? Normally, embryo division occurs within the first 13 days after fertilization, but when it occurs late, after the thirteenth day, division is incomplete causing babies to develop coupled or fused. When the division later occurs, more organs will share.
Formerly they were considered a sign of bad omen, but fortunately at present it is not so, and most cases are resolved by surgical intervention.
Now, Marta and Nuria's bodies are independent, but being born Siamese has created them a very special bond that will hold them together beyond the physical.
