'When we put them together it was a wonderful moment to see how they became calm and quiet,” said Mickey Gideon of Soroka Medical Center.
“They are recovering well, and they are neurologically ok,” he said in a telephone interview. “Cognitively we can’t estimate yet. We have to wait and examine them and see what happens.”
The girls are now alert, conscious and crying and have their heads bandaged. In the days following the surgery they were separated from each other to receive care and were placed in the same crib for the first time on Sunday. “The first two days after the operation we saw that they were a little agitated, and when we put them together it was a wonderful moment to see how they became calm and quiet,” said Gideon. “For the first time they were looking at each other after being attached at the back of their head.”
Gideon and his team started planning the separation surgery while the twins were still in utero. Then, after their birth at 34 weeks last August, doctors tested and examined them repeatedly to get a more detailed and precise understanding of their brains and bodies. They also worked closely with several high-tech companies, developing 3D models and using virtual reality simulations to prepare for the surgery so everyone involved knew exactly what to do during each part of the surgery.
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