Andlla and Eliza Fuller, conjoined twins who were born on March 1st in the US, left the hospital this week and are now ready to start a new life with their family.
In a statement released Monday, Children’s Hospital of Texas revealed that several months after their birth, Ella and Eliza were discharged from the hospital. During these weeks, the girls, who were born conjoined in the abdomen, were monitored at all times and, last June, they were separated.
“Texas Children’s Hospital is proud to announce that twin sisters Ella Grace and Eliza Faith Fuller have returned home after their separation last month. The sisters spent more than four months in the NICU after their birth.”Informed the hospital unit.
“The complex surgery on June 14 lasted about six hours and was performed by a multidisciplinary team of 17 doctors (seven surgeons, four anesthesiologists, four nurses and two surgical technicians) working together to separate the girls who were joined in the abdomen and shared liver tissue,” the same note reads.
The surgery was led by Dr. Alice King, who explained that the team “began planning and preparing for the operation before the babies were born.”
The babies’ mother, Sandy, found out she was expecting conjoined twins during a second-trimester ultrasound and subsequently underwent several tests at Texas Children’s Hospital to determine if separation was possible after the babies were born.
Ella and Eliza were finally born on March 1, 2023, at 2:11 PM, at 35 weeks gestation, by caesarean section.
After birth, they were taken to intensive care at Children’s Hospital of Texas, where they were prepared for surgery.
After the operation was successful and three days later, the parents, Sandy and Jesse “The opportunity to separate their daughters for the first time”.
Now, the girls begin a new chapter of their lives in the family home, where their older sister is also waiting.
“Texas Children’s Hospital has been a place of comfort and hope for our family,” Sandy said, in the same note, and thanked all the efforts of her daughters’ medical team.
See in the gallery above photos that mark the girls’ journey, from birth, through operation, to the moment their parents held them separately.
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