Conjoined Twins seperated...

[GDB]

Seperation successful and they are in seperate rooms, now undergoing 5 hours reconstruction surgery.

I feel for the parents, what an anxious and emotional time they must be having.


Hx

 

[dunc_n_toby]

is this in england?

 

[Maesfen]

While I feel for the parents right now, why, when problems like this were found, why on earth weren't they aborted or allowed to die at birth?
I know that won't find favour with a lot of people but I'm sorry; it has been sheer cruelty to keep them as they are and even worse to seperate them with the legacy that is going to give them throughout their lives; let alone the constant care and drain on medical services which could have been used for probably thousands of people at the same cost instead for just these two. It is certainly a case of the greater numbers should have come before these two I personally feel.

It would be classed as cruelty if it happened to animals, why isn't the same respect given to humans?

 

[JM7]

i'm with you on this, MFH......

 

[allijudd]

i never thought of it like that until i read you post mfh.....

those poor poor children...

 

[GDB]

Well, we are all entitled to our opinions, but I think that if it is YOUR pregnancy then all previous thoughts and opinions go out of the window. Iknow what you are saying, and in theory agree, but also know that when hormones and emotions come into play then those types of decisions and thoughts change..
The babies were born healthy, so to allow them to die at birth, they would have had to have been starved and surely that isnt right. Maybe the problem wasnt found til way into the pregnancy, so again abortion may not have been an option.
Not sure I could have aborted, and even when my results for Downs, when carrying KT came back a bit risky, I never once considered aborting..

My thoughts are with the children, parents and medical teams.

Hx

 

[lordflynn]

agree Hils-and for the rest of you where do you join the line-let every severely disabled/prematurely born baby die?
Its not always known in time and even if it is, who gets to decide that their quality of life is such that they have no right to it?
I am pro-choice, right down the line for whatever reason the mother choses but knowing some severely disabled children I will argue that they have a right to be here and that their parents have a right to them too, no matter what the 'strain' they put on society. I have no kids-never will-let those who need it use my contribution in taxes!

 

[KarenX]

How absolutely devastating for all concerned. Its so sad but also amazing what surgery can achieve these days..

Fingers crossed for a successful and happy ending.

Karen

 

[Puppy]

MFH, that may be a valid point. However, in the case "Re. A." from a few years ago, the parents did feel this; They wanted to let the babies die rather than separate them. Consequently the case went to court, with the doctors fighting for permission to save one, at the cost of effectually killing the other. It is due to this case that "necessity" is allowed as a defence, but with the regard to the point of this post - the child they saved (as they were granted permission to opperate by the court, against the parents' wishes) is now healthy and living a relatively normal life.

Incidentally the parents now say they are glad that the courts intervened so they now have a healthy daughter - sadly at the cost of the other baby.

 

[goeslikestink]

sometimes chioces are taken out of our hands

sometimes those choices are to late to be taken
soemtimes we make the wrong choice

fate plays a part how things turn out
and somethings things happen way beyond our control
and we have to run with it --

 

[henryhorn]

Any update on how they are doing? I'm with you Hils, but then having faced several miscarriages and then years of infertility treatment I speak from a point of view that childless women can't.
The human instinct to protect and nurture overcomes any revulsion at freaks of nature like this and I too would have given them a chance. I didn't have the amnio tests despite being over 37 when all three kids were born, but then it's very much a personal decision.
What will be interesting is what their views as adults will be. Will they say they wished they had never been separated, or even born?
I think too we should consider how science has moved on in the last 50 years, who knows what the future may hold, they are even talking about regrowing missing limbs from stem cells in the future.

 

[GTs]

They are doing rather well - going home tomorrow I believe.

 

[GTs]

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