Conjoined Atlanta twins died together 33 hours after their birth in Atlanta on Friday at 5 p.m. Early Friday morning, the twins had suffered from heart complications. The parents, Robin and Michael, announced the news in a very poignant video posted on social media site, Facebook.
The conjoined twins who shared a body and a single heart had died together a day after being born. The twins, Asa and Eli Hamby, were delivered on Thursday at 7:32 a.m. via caesarean section. Yahoo! News reported the twins died at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston after they had been transferred from Northside Hospital in Atlanta.
According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, conjoined twins occur every 200,000 live births and most do not survive. Usually, almost 40 to 60 percent of them are stillborn and 35 percent of conjoined twins only live for a single day. Since many such babies do not survive delivery, the birth of the twins was considered a medical rarity.
The news that the conjoined twins had died together was announced by their parents through an emotional and heartbreaking video posted on Facebook. As reported by The Daily Mail, the parents explained that the twins had coped well in the hours immediately after their birth however, developed heart complications early Friday morning.
"Robin got over there and we got to hold them, love them and sing to them," the twins' father, Michael, said. "I miss them, even though I have only got to be with them 24 hours. Feels like a lifetime. I don't wish this hurt on anybody."
The mother of the conjoined twins who died together was rushed from Northside Hospital, where she was recovering, to a children's hospital in Egleston. She was there to be with the twins for their last hours.
"The doctors and the nurses at Egleston were awesome," Robin said. "They explained everything they did. They did everything they could possibly do for them. They looked so much like Michael... They were just the cutest little things. So, so sweet."
The conjoined twins died together after they developed an atrial flutter, a condition where the heart beats out of sync. The Hollywood Life reported the heart rate of the twins rocketed to 300 beats per minute. The medical team caring for the twins attempted to regulate their heart's rhythm with drugs but eventually could not save them.
"It's hard losing two kids at one time," Michael emotionally said.
The conjoined twins who died together 33 hours after their birth could never have been separated because they share one heart and one circulatory system.
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