According to the health officials, there’s a 50 million to one chance that this would happen in any pregnancy. But, unfortunately, that was the situation facing the surgical team at the Children’s Hospital.
According to the parents, Ximena and Scarlett were reportedly born fused from the navel downward with separate lower limbs. The other triplet, Catalina, had a normal birth. The twins shared a colon and half of their uterus on each side. The babies’ kidneys went to the opposite baby’s bladder, so surgeons would have to reroute them to go to the correct organ.
Pediatric surgeon Dr. Patel headed up a team of medical specialists in pediatric surgery, urology, plastic surgery and orthopedics that would take on the case of the twins.
The surgeons knew the road ahead would be incredibly challenging, but their next steps would determine the twins’ future—continue reading to discover what happened next.
