There’s nothing quite like finding out the joyful news that you’re expecting. This was precisely how expecting parents, Patty and Mike Hensel, from rural Minnesota, felt when the doctor told them they would soon be parents to twins back in 1990. But what they never would have expected was that their twin girls would be conjoined!
On March 7th, 1990, the Hensel’s welcomed Brittany and Abby into the world…
A Rare Birth
When giving birth to conjoined twins, the survival rate is extremely low. When Patty went into labor, she and her husband knew that it would be high-risk. Only 1 in 189,000 births bring a set of conjoined twins, but Brittany and Abby are not just conjoined twins, they’re dicephalic parapagus twins, which means they have one body, and two separate heads. They didn’t stand much of a chance…