iStock/Thinkstock(BERN, Switzerland) — A pair of conjoined twins may have made history after their successful separation, according to Swiss doctors.
The babies, Lydia and Maya, were joined together by the liver and chest when they were born eight weeks premature in December at a hospital in Bern, Switzerland. According to BBC, the hospital said they both had their own vital organs despite being “extensively conjoined on the liver.”
The two are technically among triplets as well, and their sibling is fully separate and healthy.
According to BBC, doctors were planning to wait to do the surgery until they were older, but after they each suffered a life-threatening condition, they needed the operation.
A team of 13 doctors worked together to successfully separate the two girls. The hospital told BBC there was a 1 percent chance the operation would be a success and conjoined twins at their size had “never been successfully separated before.”
Lydia and Maya are now recovering in a hospital’s pediatric intesive care unit.
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