Conjoined twin sisters who share a stomach and a heart are learning to enjoy life, but their mother says other children are scared of them. Ai Putri Dwi Ningsih and Ai Putra Anugrah from West Java, Indonesia, were born joined at the waist. The four-year-old sisters have fully formed pairs of arms, but only two legs.
Doctors have ruled out any possibility of a surgery to separate the twins, because they share a heart – but the adorable toddlers are growing up fast and currently living happily.
Conjoined twins occur when the zygote, the initial cell formed by sexual reproduction, does not completely separate.
It is believed to occur in roughly one in every 50,000 births, but just one per cent make it to their first birthday and two-thirds are stillborn.
The twins’ mother Ibu ya Yani said: ‘They love to race with their big brother. They are surprisingly very fast. They are very active kids and do not sit for a moment and crawl in the whole house.
‘They love to draw, watch TV, compete against each other while wearing clothes and sing together.’
But she added: ‘They rarely play outside the home as kids are scared of them.’
Yani and Kurniawan have tried to give their daughters a comfortable life. But as they are growing up, the parents, who have to depend on donations, are finding it hard to raise them.
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