11-Month-Old Conjoined Twin Sisters Successfully Separated After 22-Hour Surgery

The chances that siblings are born conjoined is roughly 1 in 200,000. Once twins are born conjoined, only 5-25% survive. While this statistic is somewhat troubling, it is completely possible for some conjoined twins to be successfully separated allowing both children to live long and healthy lives.
Twins Ballenie and Bellanie Camacho were born conjoined at the lower back in the Dominican Republic. At 11-months-old, surgeons in New York City decided that it was possible to separate the twins, but it would be difficult. You have to hear their incredible story…

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Meet twins Ballenie and Bellanie Camacho. In this photo, the 11-month-old twins were connected at the lower back. 

I know, right?

Adorable. 

When mother Laurilin Celadilla Marte, 24, and father Marino Abel Camacho arrived to the hospital for their twin daughter’s birth, they had no idea they were conjoined. 

“In that moment when the doctor had them in his hands, he said, ‘Blessed be God, they are Siamese twins,” explained Laurilin in an interview with TODAY. “I said, ‘well, God, they are yours.’ ” she added. 

Unfortunately, the smaller of the twins, Ballenie, had a congenital heart condition that could threaten her life.

The twins would have to travel to Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital to gain access to the specialists that would be able to determine if they could be separated.