The husband and wife , Renee Young and Simon Howie , has long been know to have twins with unusual circumstances . Rare condition called baby diprosopus Renee was known since the womb 19 weeks . Even so , the couple decided to keep their women give birth to babies .
Renee gave birth to the twins on Thursday via an emergency caesarean section . Renee gave birth six weeks earlier than the expected birth . As quoted by AFP on Wednesday ( 05/14/2014 ) .
As shown in the results of the scan when Renee was pregnant , with twins it does have two faces with one body . They share a skull , but have separate brains . Because in one body , the baby, named Faith and Hope it has a set of limbs and organs .
Currently the twins are still in intensive care Westmead Children's Hospital , Sydney . The baby is washed for the first time after a few days was born , on Sunday night .
" They breathe perfectly with the organ itself , as well as when to eat , " said his father , Simon .
Simon said he did not know how much longer his daughter was in the hospital . For monitoring the child still ongoing medical officer . Despite his situation is different from most people , but Simon and Renee wanted to bring in a small home and join their older brothers others . Currently Howie and Renee have had 7 other children .
" We want to bring them to a happy and healthy state , so our family will be larger and will probably be a little more chaotic , " said Simon sparkle .
Although Faith and Hope were born with one body , but for Howie and his wife , they still twins . " For us they are our girls , and we love them , " said Simon .
There are only 35 cases of babies born with two faces and one body ever recorded . The latter occurred in India in 2008 , and no babies can survive with these conditions .
This condition is believed to occur due to an interruption during the cleavage . Identical twins ( monozygotic twins ) occur when a fertilized egg splits and develops into two individuals . Eight to 12 days after fertilization , the embryo layer that will split to form monozygotic twins began to develop into specific organs and structures .
Well , cleavage occurs on or attached conjoined twins occur late after the cleavage period . Believed cleavage embryos that will be conjoined twins occur between 13 to 15 days after conception , making separation stops before the process is complete , so there is still an integral part of the body .
