A British woman married to a Maltese man has described her joy after a successful operation in the UK to separate their conjoined twins.
Rosie and Ruby Formosa, who were born joined at the abdomen and shared part of the intestine, needed an emergency operation to separate them.
The identical twins, who are only 12 weeks old, underwent an operation at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) on July 27 - the day after they were born.
Details have only been issued now on the UK mdia.
Despite being told that survival chances were low, the sisters are doing well and are smiling "bubbly babies", their mother Angela said.
Mrs Formosa, from Bexleyheath, Kent, said she had a "textbook" pregnancy with her first daughter Lily, now aged five, so finding out the twins were joined was a "shock".
"At an early pregnancy scan they said the twins looked very close together so I went to King's College for another scan," the 32-year-old said.
"Between 16 and 20 weeks we found out that they were joined - I didn't know what to think, I was shocked and I felt sad.
"We didn't know what to expect until they were born - the doctors could not tell where they were connected.
"They decided to...
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