The twins were not expected to survive for longer than 24 hours.
. The overall survival rate rests at 7.5%, with the prognosis for surgically separated cases reaching 60%.
But she wasn’t always so hopeful. After realising she was pregnant in June 2016, she received the news that her daughters were conjoined the following month during a scan. It was an emotional moment.‘I was so shocked and terrified. All I could think was that they weren’t going to survive. Though there is a surgery that could separate the twins – who are joined from the stomach up but ‘everything starts to jumble from their intestines’ – Torres hasn’t looked into it.
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