Mum anticipating a child ‘with a big head’ is shocked when she provides beginning to twins conjoined on the cranium

Taslima Khatun Uno, 29, and her husband Mohammad Rafiqur Islam, 28, had been shocked after they turned mother and father to 2 little women.

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The couple are actually going through an anxious wait to see if surgeons can separate their daughters.

Rabia and Rukia had been born with the tops of their heads fused collectively.

And now docs are looking for out if the ladies share a mind and blood vessels – to find out if an operation is feasible.

Taslima and her husband stated they’re hopeful after the primary profitable separation op of conjoined twins befell in Bangladesh lately.

The twins in query had been joined on the waist, however are actually main separate lives.

Taslima stated: “The information is unbelievable and has given us hope.

“If doctors can separate those twins, we believe they will soon be able to separate our children.”

Rabia and Rukia, who turned one on July 16 this 12 months, are admitted at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in Dhaka, the capital metropolis, the place medical specialists are assessing their situation.

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Dr Mohammad Ruhul Amin, chairman of paediatric surgical procedure on the hospital, stated: “Theirs is a particularly uncommon case of conjoined twins.

“They are in good well being and rising at a standard tempo.

“We are conducting assessments, checking how they’re evolving.

TEAM EFFORT Twin women conjoined on the high of their heads are separated by workforce of 30 medics in gruelling 11-hour op

“We want to find out if the ladies share the identical cranium, mind and blood vessels. It could be extraordinarily tough to function on them.

“The infants’ heads are joined facet by facet. In different youngsters we are able to see their heads are joined entrance to again, which creates motion issues.

“As their heads are joined side by side it makes physical movement, such as bending the neck, easier.”

Taslima had loved a wholesome being pregnant, persevering with to show within the native college and take care of the ’ seven-year-old daughter Rafia.

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But after a number of scans, Taslima and her husband had been informed within the eighth month that she was carrying just one youngster however the foetus had an enlarged head.

“The doctors thought this was because of water on the brain. I was given medicine to take for one month to try and reduce the size,” she stated.

Even as she went into labour docs hadn’t noticed that she was carrying conjoined twins.

We want to find out if the ladies share similar cranium, mind and blood vessels. It could be extraordinarily tough to function on them

Dr Mohammad Ruhul AminBangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in Dhaka

And it took Taslima a day to study her new child infants’ situation.

Taslima stated: “I went into labour at night time and delivered them within the early morning by surgical procedure.

“For a day I didn’t see them as I used to be unconscious as a consequence of anaesthesia however once I noticed them I couldn’t consider my eyes.

“My husband was unwell and had not seen them both.

“I didn’t have the braveness to inform the situation of our kids.

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“It was very painful for me as instead of being happy about my children I was worried if they will survive.”

The mother and father had taken them to superior hospitals in Dhaka inside 5 days of their beginning however had been informed the ladies had been doing positive and that they would wish to attend for them to develop, and monitor whether or not they had been wholesome sufficient to endure such main surgical procedure.

Every week after they celebrated their first birthday, their mother and father introduced them to hospital.

But whilst they’ve hopes pinned on the docs, the specialists are in no hurry to function on the kids.

Professor Amin says the workforce will wait as much as two years earlier than making a closing choice on separating Rabia and Rukia.

“We are in no hurry to function on them because the success charge of such surgical procedures are very low.

He stated: “This shouldn’t be like every other surgical procedure.

“It is a tough and complex operation and can be a workforce effort.

“Also, we have now no earlier expertise in such circumstances so we need to do thorough examination and talk about with specialists to take a medical choice.

“If the need to bring experts from other countries arise, we will do that to save them.”