Mother holds conjoined twins for the first time
Dr. Gregory Martin, a neonatalogist with Phoenix Children’s
Hospital, delivers the Mendoza twins to a neonatology team waiting
to assess the newborn twins' health. (Photo: Mike Paulson/Banner
Good Samaritan)
Mother holds conjoined twins for the first time
Dr. Garrett Lam, left, and Dr. Jordan Leonard greet Ashley
Frank, center, at a news conference Friday, Aug. 15, 2008 at Banner
Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix. Frank gave birth to conjoined
twins Wednesday.
Posted: Friday, August 15, 2008 12:48 pm
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Updated: 9:22 pm, Fri Oct 7, 2011.
Mother holds conjoined twins for the first time
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East Valley Tribune
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PHOENIX - A 20-year-old Kingman woman who gave birth to
conjoined twins held them for the first time on Friday.
Ashley Frank says the twins were so tiny she was scared to touch
them.
Conjoined twins
born in Phoenix hospital
The twins were born Wednesday by Caesarean section. They're
joined at the abdomen and share a liver. Together, they weigh 8
pounds, 10 ounces.
Pediatric surgeon Dr. Stuart Lacey says the babies will need to
be at least 3 months old before doctors begin to consider a
surgical separation. They'll need several surgeries before
that.
Doctors with Phoenix Children's Hospital say they don't know the
babies' gender because of how they are fused.
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