Posted on 11/30/2008 12:10:46 AM PST by baa39
They each have ten fingers and ten toes, chubby little legs and a perfectly upturned nose. Snuggling under a blanket and with a woolly hat each to keep them warm, here are Faith and Hope Williams, the Siamese twins who some doctors believed would never be born.
Their mother, Laura, had initially been advised to terminate the girls, but last Wednesday, at 9.40am, she made medical history by becoming the world's youngest mother of conjoined twins at just 18 years of age.
Now in an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, she and her husband, Aled, 28, tell of their overwhelming joy at the arrival of their two daughters, describing their often difficult journey and explaining how Faith and Hope, with a combined weight of 10lb 8oz, continue to defy all medical expectations.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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Why would a 28 year-old be married to an 18-year old, who already gave birth to his kids?
This would show statutory rape in most of the US. Why the father of the girl would have permitted this is beyond me.
Well, there’s a way to take a negative spin on a beautiful story, based on nothing but speculation. The laws in the United States still permit girls as young as 14 to marry with parental permission. Maybe she married him at 16 and was a virgin, who knows? He’s obviously a loyal and loving husband and father. How they got together is anyone’s guess and is not the point of this story.
“Why would a 28 year-old be married to an 18-year old, who already gave birth to his kids?”
maybe because some people are forgiving and not very judgmental?
I think it is a hopeful sign, especially in the U.K., that the couple is married at all.
Wow, great minds think alike! :*)
I just posted the same article! This young couple has an amazing faith in the miracles God can provide! Keep their baby daughters in your prayers, they have a long road to go. It’s sad to think there are women out there in the world who, when hearing the news that they are/were expecting conjoined twins, decide to abort them. :*( I think it’s a wonderful thing these parents chose to defy doctor recommendations to abort and instead continued with the pregnancy, leaving things in the hands of God, no matter how much time He gives them together as a family! May God bless them all abundantly and keep those babies safe whenever they have the operation to separate them!
Hey, I’m not the one who passed the laws in your locales saying this would be illegal.
Why you both have no problem with this is beyond me.
Right ! I thought nobody in Europe got married anymore .
Just like nobody in Europe goes to church anymore .
maybe I would then but not now.
Hey, I just got back a while ago!!
Now many grandchildren great and great-great grancildren for the most part are all fine up standing members of the country. His children and many of theirs have fought for this country from WWI to my nephew who is going to Afghanistan shortly. If we had the laws now days back then he most likely would have ended up on a sexual predators list. Instead of fathering many find up standing citizens.
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'They have all their own limbs and their own hearts. The only thing they share is the liver...
That is the only major organ that can regenerate if they spit it in two so they can share it.
I know growing up, we’d see pictures of Siamese Kids in newspapers or on tv and they were so often in fact from the Orient or Far East Asia. I wonder if anyone else has ever noted that.
Good sweet story. Best to these Little Angels!
God bless Laura and her husband.
We need all pray for this courageous family, the courageous loving parents. Faith and Hope, I guess one of the Twins passed away.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/shropshire/7762359.stm
“One of the conjoined twins separated at Great Ormond Street Hospital has died.
Hope Williams - whose sister Faith is said to be in a stable condition - died because her lungs failed her, Professor Agostino Pierro said. “
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